Feijao Com Arroz

Continuing Far Out’s 7” series, Joyce scats her way over two high-octane bossas with an unmistakable ‘Feminina-style’ sound.

This 7” features an exclusive version of ‘Feijão com Arroz’ – a track from Joyce’s forthcoming CD yet here with a scorching bass-line that differs from the album version and will ensure the tune gets flipped by those DJs who know the damage a bass-led bossa groove can do to a dance-floor.

‘Feijão com Arroz’ - ‘Rice and beans’ - might be the simplest of Brazilian dishes yet this track is a master-class in samba-jazz. Joyce and her ‘banda’ blend the basic ingredients of bass, drums, guitar and vocals into a rhapsodic groove that sounds like it could be a lost classic from seminal Joyce albums such as ‘Feminina’ or ‘Tardes Cariocas’.

Joyce weaves a web of sonorous guitar-work in between Tutty’s frenetic cymbal work as her scat lifts the tune high whilst a driving bass-line pushes the groove low, surely putting ‘Feijão Com Arroz’ up there with the likes of ‘Aldeia de Ogum’ and ‘Feminina’.

On the flipside lies ‘Penalty’, a live favourite from Joyce’s recent Japanese tour. Again on paper the ingredients look simple - bass, drums, guitar and vocals - yet in the hands of Joyce and co the elements are blended together to create a celestial-slice of spiritual jazz-dance guaranteed to lift even the weariest of souls.

On Joyce’s latest album ‘Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas’ her and Tutty have turned to their samba-jazz roots to create an album influenced by the golden-era of bossa-nova and US jazz from the 60s. All tracks feature Joyce on vocals for a mix of high-octane samba-jazz and ethereal bossas with either full lyrics or samba-scats. Produced by Joyce and Tutty themselves the album marks a milestone – 30 years – of them working together; Tutty’s percussive swing has underpinned Joyce’s forays across Brazilian music over the last 30 years, creating one of the most prolific musical partnerships in jazz & Brazilian music.