VA - Too Slow To Disco Brasil: Compiled By Ed Motta +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Artist ..... : Various Artists | | Album ...... : Too Slow To Disco Brasil: Compiled By Ed Motta | | Year ....... : 2018 | | Label ...... : How Do You Are? | | Cat.No ..... : HDYA RE05 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+ | | | Genre ...... : Soul | | Tracks ..... : 19 | | Duration ... : 71:35 min | | Source ..... : CDDA | | Street Date : Apr-21-2018 | | URL ........ : www.discogs.com/release/11933256 | | | | Release Size : 133.2 MB | | Ripping Tool : EAC | | Encoder .... : Lame 3.98.4 -V0 | | Quality .... : VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo | | Rip Date ... : Oct-02-2018 | | | +--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+ | | | 01. Filo Machado - Quero Pouco, Quero Muito 04:34 | | 02. Sandra Sa - Guarde Minha Voz 03:10 | | 03. Altay Veloso - Debora 04:41 | | 04. Junior Mendes - Copacabana Sadia 04:07 | | 05. Don Beto - Renascendo Em Mim 02:30 | | 06. Lucinha Turnbull - Toda Manha Brilha O Sol 03:09 | | 07. Guilherme Arantes - Coisas Do Brasil 04:09 | | 08. Carlos Bivar - Mare 03:19 | | 09. Biafra - Leao Ferido 04:59 | | 10. Santa Cruz - Mais Uma Chance 04:39 | | 11. Jane Duboc - Se Eu Te Pego De Jeito 03:02 | | 12. Cassiano - Rio Best-Seller 04:25 | | 13. Carlinhos & Soninha Queiroz - Pra Voce 02:43 | | 14. Gelson Oliveira & Luiz Ewerling - Acordes E Sementes 02:41 | | 15. Zeca Do Trombone - Rota-Mar 02:35 | | 16. Roupa Nova - Clarear 03:20 | | 17. Kiko Zambianchi - Estreia 03:45 | | 18. Brylho - Joia Rara 03:24 | | 19. Rita Lee & Roberto - Atlantida 06:23 | | ----- | | Total: 71:35 | | | +-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+ | | | We'd like to introduce you to this giant of musical endeavour, the | | 'Colossus of Rio', as he's known. For Ed's sweetly agreed to be our | | point man on all matters smooth for this latest TSTD collection, where | | we take a dive into an often overlooked side of Brazilian music: | | Brazilian soul, funk and AOR. | | | | Meet Ed Motta: a true Brazilian original | | | | At the end of the 1980s Ed Motta burst upon the music scene as a major | | singer and one of the writers and producers in the band Conexao Japeri | | This young nephew of Brazil's legendary soul icon Tim Maia was an | | instant hit on the Carioca show circuit and the bands 1988 debut album | | "Ed Motta and Conexao Japeri" confirmed his promise, including several | | big national hits. The songs were marked by a lavish musicality and | | introduced strong soul jazz & funk elements into Brazil's conventional | | pop-rock scene. It was soon clear that at the precocious age of just | | 16, Ed Motta had a musical vision and heaps of ambition. | | | | He's now fifteen albums into a career that hops from genre to genre, | | perhaps one of the savviest music makers and curators out there. He is | | a refined practitioner of jazz, funk, soul, AOR and much else besides, | | having worked with everyone from Gilles Peterson to Roy Ayers, 4-Hero, | | Seu Jorge, Patrice Rushen, Greg Phillinganes, Bo Diddley, Incognito, | | Ryuichi Sakamoto and many other insanely talented musos. And as we'd | | heard good things about his home country's undeniable chops in the | | smooth arena, in particular a glorious two decade run of song-making | | through the seventies and eighties, DJ Supermarkt decided to make that | | call: | | | | "Ed, it's Germany calling... Man, we need your mind, your taste, and | | your style... are you up for curating a history of Brazil's finest | | adult-orientated for the Too Slow to Disco crowd?" -"Sure thing, I'd | | love to!" | | | | Ed's in his forties now, with Grammy nominations under his belt, ever | | the restless collector of new music, ideas and obsessions. His home | | somehow contains an ever-growing collection of over 30000 records from | | all over the world, as well as his high-production recording studio. | | Music magazines line up to visit his holy grail. This guy breathes | | music from dawn to dusk. And hes notorious for his passionate interest | | in the world - if he finds a thing he loves, it quickly spirals into | | obsession, from classic films to exotic fish, from lost vinyl gems to | | the finest natural wines in the world... The perfect curator then. And | | to understand how much of an inside game Ed is playing, you need look | | no further than his own love letter to the genre, 2013's "AOR" LP. On | | that record he laid down his own personal take on the high production | | values, sophisticated harmonies and melodies of the West Coast sound, | | referring back to bands like the Doobie Brothers, or Steely Dan's most | | obsessive studio phase - the Aja and Gaucho years. "AOR" was like a | | mission statement and definitely brought him international recognition | | as an influential collector, protagonist and expert in every aspect of | | this music. | | | | Ed's enthusiasm just pours out of this glorious double album, and | | perhaps that's no surprise, as - despit e starting out as a musician | | looking for inspiration overseas û he's latterly also been a champion | | for homegrown genius. Encouraged by his peers and friends in places | | like LA, Paris and London, in the last 20 years he's been feverishly | | unearthing the gems of Brazil's most jazzy and sophisticated pop era. | | (Well... being Ed, if we'd asked for a collection of Iceland's rare | | folk music he would probably have been just as up for that...) | | | | To be clear though Brazil, far from being influenced by its neighbours | | to the north, came to smooth music its own way, developing it out of | | its longstanding love affair with jazz and funk. Brazilian music has | | always been animated by rhythm, using it to produce sophisticated yet | | sensual songs so there's an effortless swing to many of the songs Ed's | | gathered here. These are tunes full of catchy vocal lines, ones that | | immediately get stuck in your head, relating simple tales of love and | | dancing with a perfect poppy precision, backed by soulful grooves. | | | | In this collector's compilation, you're coming on a kind of expert | | guided time travel mission - just picture yourself following Ed's | | fingers as they trace along the sleeves in that massive library-sized | | vinyl vault of his. So we dart back through over two decades of music | | making, dancing in one style then the next from soul to funk to AOR, | | you'll feel the air coming out of the horn section right the way | | through, and a mixologist's golden touch tying everything together. | | | | The artists Ed has play-listed for you include uber-obscure figures | | like Carlos Bivar or Gelson Oliveira & Luiz Ewerling - both of whose | | songs here derive from privately pressed albums - so rare they're not | | even listed on Discogs! He's also gathered together a real pantheon of | | Brazilian musical heroes like Rita Lee (who was part of the legendary | | Os Mutantes), Cassiano (one of the founders of Bossa Trio and Os | | Diagonais) and million sellers like Roupa Nova lovingly referred to as | | 'the Brazilian Toto' (who would have thought that would become a | | compliment by 2018?)! And as ever with the Too Slow to Disco series, | | the artists might be new to you, but they're always bringing a killer | | tune. | | | | Finally, Ed would like to share a few pointers to get you in the mood | | for this stylish listening experience: "Before slipping this LP on, | | you need to nail the AOR modus opeara... That means: a Hawaiian shirt | | a la Magnum PI, loafers without socks as in Miami Vice, jump in your | | convertible and drive under the coconut trees. This is a sunset ride | | through Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Miami, Hawaii. Aloha!" | | | | Back at the party, and above the heads of the dancers you catch a | | glimpse of Ed passing an LP to the DJ. The sun's dipping behind the | | mountains above the bay and the sound pulsating from the speakers sure | | has a beguiling melody. There's a definite touch of Earth, Wind and | | Fire about that slinky groove.So join us to discover another dimension | | of the Brazilian sound: Too Slow to Disco Brasil Compiled by Ed Motta. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+