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Prefacio 04:11 | | 02. Castelo (Version 1) 04:19 | | 03. Melo da Cuica 03:35 | | 04. Xingo (Version 1) 07:04 | | 05. Laranjeiras 03:55 | | 06. Equipe 68 07:40 | | 07. Unknown Jam 07:29 | | 08. Unknown Song for Mario Telles 04:57 | | | | DISC 2 | | 01. Duro de Roer 07:35 | | 02. Manha 02:30 | | 03. Tempos do Parana 05:42 | | 04. Bateria do Mamao 04:24 | | 05. Quem Tem Medo 04:53 | | 06. Xingo (Version 2) 01:57 | | 07. Juntos Mais uma Vez 06:07 | | 08. Castelo (Version 2) 03:50 | | | | | | R E L E A S E N O T E S >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | | ------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | | | | | | Since their debut album release in 1975, Azymuth have risen to rank | | alongside the world's greatest jazz, funk and fusion artists. As | | young men in Rio de Janeiro, they stood out for both their | | exceptional talent as musicians, and their wild rock'n'roll antics in | | the predominantly middle-class worlds of bossa nova and jazz. Their | | signature "Samba Doido" (crazy samba) sound ruptured the tried and | | tested musical structures of the day, resulting in what can only be | | described as an electric, psychedelic, samba jazz-funk hybrid. | | | | Before they became Azymuth, Jose Roberto Bertrami (keyboards), Ivan | | 'Mamao' Conti (drums), Alex Malheiros (bass) and Ariovaldo Contesini | | (percussion) played backing band to just about every major artist in | | Brazil. Bertrami was also contracted as an arranger and songwriter at | | the biggest labels of the era: Polydor, Philips, Som Livre, and EMI | | being just a few. Azymuth's name can be found on record sleeves by | | the likes of Jorge Ben, Elis Regina, Marcos Valle, Ana Mazzotti and | | countless others. But at the dawn of the seventies, fascinated by | | developments in improvisational music - from jazz in the US, to | | progressive rock in the UK and of course samba, bossa and tropicalia | | on home turf - the energetic young group were inspired and ready to | | move forward. Any spare moment in which they weren't in sessions and | | writing music for other artists, they would be carving out their own | | sound. | | | | These previously unheard recordings took place between 1973-75 at | | Bertrami's home studio in the Laranjeiras district of Rio de Janeiro. | | At the time of recording, there was nothing in Brazil, less the world | | that sounded anything like them, so perhaps it's unsurprising that | | when Bertrami presented his demos to the record companies he had been | | working for, he was turned away, and told in effect that the music | | was 'wrong'. | | | | One of the demos 'Manha' would be picked up by Som Livre and Azymuth | | released their seminal debut album in 1975. Throughout the late | | seventies and eighties the group released a series of now classic | | albums for Milestone Records, before taking an indefinite hiatus to | | pursue their individual careers. | | | | When English producers Joe Davis and Roc Hunter arrived in Brazil in | | 1994 to record the first Azymuth album in over a decade, Bertrami dug | | out the demos which had sat virtually untouched for over twenty | | years. Joe recalls how he was "blown away by the freedom and | | intensity of the music, as well as the genius of the ideas | | musically." Beginning a long and fruitful relationship, 'Prefacio' | | would be the first track Azymuth recorded for Far Out Recordings and | | was released on the Carnival album (1996). | | | | Including 'Manha' and 'Prefacio', only a handful of these demo tracks | | were ever professionally recorded and released, making this the first | | opportunity to hear many of these early Azymuth compositions in their | | raw, original form. | | | | On every track the frenetic energy in the studio is palpable, giving | | the recordings a beautifully personal feel and a sense of the | | phenomenally creative vision Bertrami, Malheiros and Conti were | | realising at the time. Fifty years on, Azymuth's earliest recorded | | music retains an ineffable, futuristic quality, standing amongst | | their most captivating and moving work. | | | | These are demo recordings and were not recorded in a professional | | studio, therefore the sound may differ from other releases by | | Azymuth. The best care has been taken in the restoration and | | mastering of this release. | | | | Produced by Azymuth & Jose Roberto Bertrami. | | Recorded @ Jose Roberto Bertrami's home studio in Laranjeiras, Rio De | | Janeiro, Brazil between 1973-1975. | | Issue and project co-ordinator: Joe Davis. | | Tape transfers by Roc Hunter (thanks to Simon Hitner). | | Mastered by Daniel Maunick @ the Sugar Shack, Lanark, Scotland. | | Mastered by Frank @ Carvery Cuts. | | | | | | YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! | | | | | | . . | | |\/\/| | | |____| | |------------------------------=---=-======-=---=-------------------------| |===/\===============================SOUNDz==========================/\===| '--/__\--------------------------=-2013-2019-=----------------------/__\--'