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Caixa Cubo announce new album Modo Avião + European Tour Dates
A sublime expedition from Brazil to the sky, “Modo Avião” (Airplane Mode) sees São Paulo based trio Caixa Cubo jet further forth from the lineage of Brazilian instrumental music. Following in the footsteps of heroes like Azymuth, Antonio Adolfo, Cesar Mariano and Marcos Resende, with the tried and tested trifecta of synthesizers, bass and drums, Caixa Cubo have carved out their own idiosyncratic ideal of golden-era Brazilian jazz-funk and samba-jazz. Encapsulating the vitality and experimentalism synonymous with Sao Paulo’s musical history, Caixa Cubo playfully straddle the elegant and the surreal, with masterful songwriting and the consummate musicianship of longtime friends...
Azymuth announce European Tour 2024
The world’s greatest three man orchestra return! Azymuth announce 10 dates across Europe this December. Book your tickets now to ensure your place on the dance floor for the greatest samba-jazz-funk-disco-fusion party on earth. December 01 - Knust, Hamburg, Germany - TicketsDecember 03 - Nomad Festival, Palermo, Italy - TicketsDecember 05 - 02 Academy Islington, London, UK - TicketsDecember 07 - Laska V21, Riga, Latvia - TicketsDecember 08 - Paavli Kultuurivabrik, Tallinn, Estonia - TicketsDecember 10 - Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands - TicketsDecember 11 - Wintercircus, Ghent, Belgium - TicketsDecember 12 - Lido, Berlin, Germany - TicketsDecember 15 - Parkteatret, Oslo,...
Joyce Moreno Natureza European Tour 2024
Brazilian icon Joyce Moreno will tour Europe later this year with a headline show at London’s Jazz Cafe plus more dates in Berlin, Monaco, Tromso, Prague, Warsaw and Paris! Book now to see one of Brazil’s greatest living legends live in concert with her phenomenal all-star band. 30.08.2024 La Note Bleue, Monaco - Tickets31.08.2024 La Note Bleue, Monaco - Tickets02.09.2024 Emmauskirche, Berlin - Tickets04.09.2024 Kulturhuset, Tromso - Tickets06.09.2024 Palác Akropolis, Prague - Tickets07.09.2024 Jassmine, Warsaw - Tickets08.09.2024 Jazz Café, London - Tickets11.09.2024 New Morning, Paris - Tickets
Marcos Valle announces new album featuring collaborations with Leon Ware, Laudir De Oliveira, Joyce Moreno and more
No one has lived a life quite like Marcos Valle. He became an overnight international sensation, fled a military dictatorship, dodged the Vietnam war draft, had his music sung by Homer Simpson, made enemies with Marlon Brando, and became an unsuspecting fitness guru for multiple generations. But to truly understand the great Brazilian composer, arranger, singer and multi instrumentalist, one must listen to his music. Between the release of his first album in 1962 and today, Marcos Valle has released twenty-two studio albums traversing definitive bossa nova, classic samba, iconic disco pop, psychedelic rock, nineties dance and orchestral music. He has...
Marcos Valle Unearths Lost 1979 Collaboration With Leon Ware For New Single “Feels So Good”
In the late seventies and early eighties, while living in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, Brazilian maestro Marcos Valle formed a close musical partnership with North American soul legend and producer extraordinaire Leon Ware. Valle & Ware’s collaborations resulted in some of the most celebrated songs from their respective oeuvres. Among others, they wrote “Rockin’ You Eternally” and “Baby Don't Stop Me” (the latter co-written by Laudir De Oliveira from the band Chicago), from Ware’s 1981 album, and the disco boogie work-out hit “Estrelar” from Valle’s self-titled 1983 album. In 1979, together in an LA Studio, Valle and Ware recorded...