Radio 1′s Gilles Peterson played a track this week from the fifth Os Ipanemas album on Far Out Recordings and although it’s a busy week, these new recordings from “the original Afro-Brazilian Kings” have rarely sounded better.
With Gilles Peterson celebrating 10 years at the BBC and Far Out Recordings having a 15th birthday celebration, what better party animal partnership is there to bring you this compilation of the finest Brazilika there is?
Students at the FLY academy will immediately recognise Jackson Conti as the combined talents of Otis Jackson, Jr (aka Madlib) and Ivan (Mam?£o) Conti (he of Azymuth); lets face it, that makes Sujinho indispensible in itself.
The Ipanemas play dusty vintage bossa nova. Their music is soothing, care-free and full of Carioca charm, just as Fly found front-man Wilson das Neves to be in conversation
This is a fanatastic album! Described as, “the White Album that Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 never made.”
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Dwight Trible has been hangin’ out with all the youngsters but his latest album brings back a golden age of jazz.
Listening to Brazilian treasures from the 60s and 70s is more than just doing an investigation into the past. It’s like discovering the future of pop music.
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