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Uruguayan jazz funk legends Opa announce reissue of their earliest recordings

Uruguayan jazz funk legends Opa announce reissue of their earliest recordings

Meaning ‘Hi’ in Uruguayan slang, Opa are a South American phenomenon. Fusing Uruguay’s native Candombe rhythms with North American jazz and pop music, Opa’s space-age synthesizers, boisterous grooves and compositional magic expressed a distinctive Afro-Uruguayan voice within the global jazz vernacular: a voice which remains as vital and unique today as when it was recorded, almost half a century ago. Having migrated to New York from Montevideo in the early seventies, Opa were heard playing in a nightclub by renowned producer and label owner Larry Rosen. At Holly Place Studios between July and August 1975, Rosen oversaw Opa’s first recordings...

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Hermeto Pascoal's seminal 1970 debut album set for reissue

Hermeto Pascoal's seminal 1970 debut album set for reissue

Release date: 31st March 2023 (originally released: 22nd June 1970) | Format: Vinyl LP/ CD | Cat No: FORDIS07 Far Out Recordings proudly presents Hermeto Pascoal’s remarkable self-titled debut album. Recorded in 1970 at A&R studios in New York, the album features certified North American titans including Ron Carter, Hubert Laws, Joe Farrel and Googie Coppola, and Brazilian stars Airto Moreira and Flora Purim (who also produced the album). While it was Hermeto’s first album released under his own name, he had spent the decade or so prior making a name for himself in Brazil and internationally as a composer, arranger...

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A previously unreleased Ana Mazzotti single has been discovered by her son

A previously unreleased Ana Mazzotti single has been discovered by her son

Release date: 10th December 2021 (recorded circa 1983 | Format: 7" Vinyl & digital | Cat No.: JD52 Believed to have been recorded in 1983, ‘O Filho Do Homem’ is a newly discovered and previously unreleased single by the late Brazilian composer and keyboardist Ana Mazzotti. Though it’s her only known studio recording of the decade, ‘O Filho Do Homem’ is one of several unreleased compositions Mazzotti and her band performed on TV Cultura and Programa MPB during the 80s.* These performances showed Mazzotti had transitioned towards a harder edged and more daringly experimental sound in this period, while keeping the...

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Agustín Pereyra Lucena Quartet's 1980 album La Rana set for reissue

Agustín Pereyra Lucena Quartet's 1980 album La Rana set for reissue

Release date: 15th October 2021 | Formats: Vinyl LP/CD/Digital “My favourite music is always from places near the water. There is a flow near water that influences guitar playing for sure.” When Agustín Pereyra Lucena first went to Brazil, the sixteen year old Argentinian set off on the almost two day long bus journey with the hope of seeing Baden Powell & Vinicius De Moraes live in concert. On arrival he realised he had neither the money nor the right clothes to get into the show, and he returned home having spent what he’d saved for the concert ticket on...

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José Mauro's A Viagem Das Horas to be reissued with three previously unreleased tracks

José Mauro's A Viagem Das Horas to be reissued with three previously unreleased tracks

Release date: 28th May 2021 | Formats: Vinyl LP, CD and digital For years it was believed that José Mauro was dead. Rumours on blogs and comment sections circulated that the mysterious Brazilian genius had either been killed in a road accident, or been ‘disappeared’ by Brazil’s military junta in the 1970s. But following Far Out’s 2016 reissue of José Mauro’s debut album Obnoxius, the label heard word that José Mauro is in fact alive and well, living a quiet life on the outskirts of Rio. “My body pushed me away from music, health became a stumbling block for me. If I...

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