Brazilian Tapestry Vol. 8 ~ The Sound Of Brazil '70

The compilation series dedicated to the essential & versatile sound of the Brazil '70, EPISODE 8. From the Tropicália to the Black Rio movements, this volume includes Bossa Nova, Jazz Funk, MPB, Samba Funk, Soul & Boogie sounds, featuring Sandra Sà, Gal Costa, Novos Baianos, Antonio Adolfo, Bebeto, Orlandivo, João Donato, Roberto Carlos, Elza Soares, Sonia Santos & many others. All tracks recorded between 1968-1983, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Tim Maia ‎- Nobody Can Live Forever ~ The Existential Soul of Tim Maia

Year : 2012 

Label : Luaka Bop 

Genre : Soul 

Style : Funk/Soul, Psychedelic Soul

No need to introduce the iconic godfather of the Brazilian soul music, the man who contributed to create the Black Rio movement introducing American R&B in Brazilian music. Compiled by Paul Heck for Luaka Bop, the label of Talking Heads' founder member, David Byrne, "The Existential Soul of Tim Maia" brings together some of the best Tim Maia's productions recorded during the 1970 decade including his mystical "Cultura Racional" period from 1974-1975. Despite the club killers "O Balanço" & "Rodésia" are missing, find on this fabulous compilation, five undisputed classics extracted from "Racional Vol. 1 & 2" among "Que Beleza", "Quer Queira, Quer Não Queira" or "O Caminho Do Bem" featuring  saxophonist Oberdan Magalhães from Banda Black Rio and pianist/arranger Robson Jorge. Titles includes also some mighy funk (Brother, Father, Sister), soulful treasures (I Don't Care) and the disco (Do Leme Ao Pontal). Essential !!

Copa 7 ‎- O Som Do Copa 7 Vol. 2

 

Year : 2001/1980

Label : Whatmusic.com/Top Tape

Genre : Jazz, Latin, Funk/Soul

Style : Jazz Funk, Boogie, Latin Jazz, Samba Funk

 

Between the Banda Black Rio & Azymuth, "Copa 7" is a brazilian samba funk collective who grew up during the Black Rio movement era. Indeed "Do Copa 7 Vol. 2", their second album, incoporates all the elements of the typical sounds from the Brazil '70, including samba, performed  in the pure "brass band" spirit. Titles include samba songs based on funk ("O Circo", "Som Do Copa No2"), boogie (Tõ Maluco), jazz funk (Pintar O 7), some scat vocals, lush synths, mighty baile grooves (Levanta Poeira), and of course the club killers "Maria Joana", "Agora E Minha Vez".

Azymuth ‎- Águia Não Come Mosca

 

Year : 2019/1977

Label : Mr Bongo/Atlantic

Genre : Jazz, Latin

Style : Latin Jazz, Jazz Funk, Samba Funk

The second master stroke by Brazilian Jazz Funk band No. 1 recorded during the golden era of the brazilian funk called "Black Rio", was realeased the same year and on same label as the other classic "Maria Fumaça" by Banda Black Rio. "Agua Nao Come Mosca" was a big success that launched their international career and brought them to join Milestone records for all the following decade. Performed by the magic trio including Alex Malheiros (eb, eg, vo), José Roberto Bertrami (keys, vo) and Ivan “Mamao” Conti (ds, perc, vo), it features also percussionists Ariovaldo Contesini Ganzá (triangle, tamborim), Neném Da Cuica (cuica) and saxophonist Paulo Moura from Bossa Rio. Titles include soulful moods ("Águia Não Come Mosca"), samba-boogie-funk (A Presa), lush soundscapes (Tamborim, Cuíca, Ganzá, Berimbau), floating synths' sounds ("Vôo Sobre O Horizonte", "Tarde"), and the inimitable drum grooves with insane rhythms from Mamao (the crazy batucada "Aguia Negra X Dragao Negro"). A classic !

Marcos Valle - Vontade De Rever Você

Year : 2017/1981
Label : ViNiLiSSSiMO/Som Livre
Genre : Latin Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk, Boogie Funk, MPB

Recorded at the end of the disco era and during the smooth jazz climax, "Vontade De Rever Você" is the first Marcos Valle's album released after his Californian stay to escape to the Brazilian censorship between 1975-1980. Marcos brought back with him the north american "sound" including boogie-funk and disco music to take a new artistic direction, recruiting R&B songwriter Leon Ware, one Marvin Gaye's collaborator. Other talented musicians surround him, such as the founder members of american jazz-funk collective "Chicago" (Peter Cetera, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow), and a Brazilian stellars crew with saxophonist Oberdan & bassist Jamil Joanes from Banda Black Rio, jazz percussionist Airto Moreira, Robson Jorge on guitar, José Roberto Bertrami from Azymuth on keyboards and accordionist Sivuca. Titles include "Paraiba Nao E Chicago" (his own variation on the Leon Ware's "Baby Don't Stop Me"), "Garimpando", the disco-funk gem cut for the dancefloor "Velhos Surfistas Querendo Voar", the samba interlude "Campina Grande", the sublime latin pop ballad "Sei La" and an up-tempo song "Pecados De Amor", originally composed for Cristina Camargo and previously released as "Mortal Tem Hora" in 1980.

Tim Maia - Disco Club

Year : 2018/1978

Label : Mr Bongo/Atlantic

Genre : Soul, Latin

Style : Disco, Boogie Funk

Recorded by the iconic brazilian Soul Legend, "Disco Club" was cut for dancefloor spotlighting the disco-boogie sound as the title suggests, including his biggest hits "Sossego" and "Acenda O Farol". Tim Maia is surrounded by experienced musicians, including the core members of the Banda Black Rio featuring bassist Jamil Joanes and drummer Paulinha 'Black' Braga plus Hyldon De Souza on guitar, Robson Jorge on clavinet and Lincoln Olivetti as arranger on keyboards. The first side is devoted to dancefloors opening on the disco glitz "A Fim De Voltar" and "Acenda O Farol", following by the mighty boogie-funk "Sossego", instrumental "Vitória Régia Estou Contigo E Não Abro" and the fusion "All I Want". The other side brings together numerous of glamorous sweet soul songs "Mumurio", "Pais E Filhos", "Vitó", "Juras" and "Jhony".

Célia - Célia

Year : 2018/1972
Label : Mr Bongo/Continental
Genre : Latin, Funk/Soul
Style : MPB, Soul, Bossa Nova

Fabulous self-titled album from the brazilian princess Célia Regina Cruz, tropicalism masterpiece with pop arrangements, funk/soul accents & psychedelia, including her best known song, own version of "Na Boca Do Sol" composed by Arthur Verocai. Conducted & arranged by maestro Arthur Verocai, one legendary arranger of the Tropicalia movement, "Célia '72" includes also an all-star composers collective featuring Marcos Valle, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius De Moraes, Erasmo Carlos & Roberto Carlos. Finally reissued by Mr Bongo in 2018, "Célia '72" is the second of four self-titled albums serie released for the Continental label between 1971 and 1977, the first two with Verocai.

Brazilian Tapestry Vol. 6 ~ The Sound Of Brazil '70 (From Tropicalia to Black Rio)

The compilation series dedicated to the essential & versatile sound of the Brazil '70, EPISODE 6. From the Tropicália to the Black Rio movements, this volume includes Psychedelic grooves, MPB, Samba Funk, Soul, Disco & Boogie sounds, featuring Jorge Ben, Os Mutantes, Antônio Carlos & Jocafi, Célia, Renata Lu, Novos Baianos, Dom Salvador, Gal Costa, Antonio Adolfo, Bebeto, Tim Maia, União Black, Banda Black Rio, Cristina Camargo & many others. All tracks recorded between 1968-1980, compiled & mixed by Be Hard Bop.

Tim Maia - Tim Maia Vol. 6

Year : 2016/1977

Label : ViNiLiSSSiMO/Som Livre

Genre : Soul, Latin

Style : Funk/Soul, Latin Funk, Boogie

The godfather of Brazilian Soul, Tim Maia, was one of the most popular brazilian artist of his time, pioneer of the rhythm 'n' blues introduction in Barzilian music. After his controversial spiritual era of the Rational culture, when he recorded the masterpieces "Racional Vol. 1 & 2", Tim Maia gets involved into the explosion of the "Black Rio" movement along with brazilian artists like Toni Tornado or Banda Black Rio, who popularized the James Brown's funky sound in Brazil. In 1977, he signed this first and only studio album for Som Libre in the same line, before to released his most popular album nowadays, "Disco Club", including his two biggest hits "Sossego" and "Acenda O Farol" feat. Hyldon & Banda Black Rio. Also nicknamed "Verão Carioca", "Tim Maia Vol. 6" includes killer tunes from the anthem "É Necessário" to the boogie gems "Verão Carioca" or "Ride Twist And Roll", the funky "Feito Para Dançar", passing by "Venha Dormir Em Casa" which show us that he's the real Brazilian Soul man number one.

Candido - Drum Fever

Year : 1973
Label : Polydor
Genre : Jazz, Latin
Style : Afro-Cuban Jazz, Soul-Jazz, Jazz-Funk

Last volume of the Candido "Funk Trilogy" serie which started with "Thousand Finger Man" (1970 - Solid State), and passing by "Beautiful" licenced on Blue Note records in 1971. "Drum Fever" is one of the Candido's funkiest records, conducted by the legendary Afro-Cuban-Jazz arranger Chico O' Farrill, it includes latin waves and soul-jazz grooves with swinging congas, killer keyboards, wah wah guitar and funky brass section. "Drum Fever" was conceived with the Chico O' Farrill complicity, most of the tracks are composed by the Candido-Farrill duo, including also two jazz standards, the big classic "St. Louis Blues" and the caribbean jazz "St. Thomas" of Sonny Rollins played in a up-tempo funk variation.

Various - Black Rio 2 ~ Original Samba Soul 1968-1981

Year : 2009
Label : STRUT
Genre : Latin, Soul
Style : Funk/Soul, Samba

Compiled by DJ Cliffy and released under the British Afro music Label "STRUT", Black Rio Vol. 2 brings together some of the best Brazilian Soul & Funk songs recorded from the late sixties to the early eighties. Some of which are belong to a new musical genre arising in the mid-seventies, called Black Rio, the meeting between typical Brazilian sound and the music of James Brown. The Black Rio matches to a style mixing Afro-Samba & Funk influenced by the Black Power movement, whose the most representative actors then were Miguel De Deus, Toni Tornado, Tim Maia, Emilio Santiago, Dom Salvador, Banda Black Rio (and its fisrt incarnation "Cry Babies") or Bebeto with the song "Princesa Negra De Angola" included in this compilation.

DISC 1 : Zeca Do Trombone & Roberto Sax - Coluna Do Meio / Renata Lú - Faz Tanto Tempo / Balanca Povo - Novo Dia / Guimaes E O Grupo Som Sagrado - Our Sound / Rubinho E Mauro Assumpção - Ta Tudo Ai / Emilio Santiago - Bananeira / Watusi - Oio Gere / Os Diagonais - Não Vou Chorar / Som Nosso - Pra Swingar / Super Som Lord - BR Samba  

  

DISC 2 : Pete Dunaway - Supermarket / Marilene - Sinal Vermelho / Avan Samba - Ibere / Azambuja & CIA - Tema Do Azambuja / Cry Babies - It's My Thing / Edson Frederico E A Transa - Bobeira / Bebeto - Princesa Negra De Angola / Sonia Santos - Poema Ritmico Do Malandro 

Yasuo Higuchi & Doremi Band - New York Cut

Year : 1979
Label : Warner Pioneer
Genre : Jazz
Style : Jazz Funk

Yasuo Higuchi is a pianist, bandmaster and arranger, best known through his musical works produced for japanese television series & cinema. Yasuo Higuchi was especially in charge of famous compositions for animation music such as Osamu Tezuka's "Phoenix 2772" movie, "Tetsuwa Atom" (Astro Boy) and "Mobile New Century Gundam X" series. "New York Cut" is a condensed of pure jazz groove played by the Doremi Band, formed around guitarist John Scofield, bassist Will Lee, keyboardist Jorge Dalto, drummer Chris Parker and percussionist Dwight Gassaway. Titles include "To The New World" (Gilles Peterson's inspirations), "Uncle From Uncle", "Giraffe (In Memory Of Taki San)" played in a kind of flamenco style, "A Magazine On The Street" to the disco-funk accents, all composed by Yasuo Higuchi. Recorded at CBS Studio, New York.

Miguel De Deus - Black Soul Brothers

 

Year : 2016/1977

Label : Groovie Records/Underground

Genre : Soul
Style : Funk

Portugese reissue of the first solo album of brazilian guitarist Miguel De Deus, originally released in 1977 on Underground, subsidiary of Copacabana label. Miguel De Deus was the founding member of the latin rock group "Os Brazões" which accompagnied Gal Costa on stage & Tom Zé on the Grande Liquidação album in 1968. With "Os Mutantes", the band was emblematic of brazilian psychedelic rock scene in the late sixties. In the mid seventies, Miguel De Deus oriented his music to the Funk style, becoming a initiator of the Afro-Funk movement later called "Black Rio", strongly inspired by James Brown & the Black Power spirit. Recorded in São Paulo, at the Reunido Studio, "Black Soul Brothers" includes the title-track reissued by Mr. Bongo in 2014, "Cinco Anos", "Mister Funk" and "Flata Louca" from "Black Soul Brothers" EP released on Copacabana records.