Talk:Holiday Update/@comment-34554399-20190104193659/@comment-31458611-20190105000555

"Samba"?

That was my very first impression indeed, but what really caught my (again, pointed but uneducated) ears was the horizontal, pizzicato-plucked harmony (with an acoustic guitar or cavaquinho or ukelele or sitar or whatever).

That's something that, AFAIK, isn't a typical Samba staple. Nonetheless, Brazilian northeastern folk music also drinks from its Middle Eastern (as in "Arabian") roots, and that kind of harmony strongly reminded me of the (Indian-ish, I know) intro by virtuoso GH to this wonderful song.

So I'm afraid the hole is further down, or "o buraco é mais embaixo", as they say in Brazil...