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Sun Ra & Carl Craig collaborator Francisco Mora announces two album reissues from '80s Detroit

Sun Ra & Carl Craig collaborator Francisco Mora announces two album reissues from '80s Detroit

Release date: 16th April 2021 | Formats: Vinyl LPs, CD & digital Far Out Recordings is delighted to present Mora!, and for the first time ever on vinyl Mora! II. Mexican-American percussionist and former member of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Francisco Mora Catlett originally recorded and released his debut solo LP as a private press in 1987, but the sequel he recorded over the course of the next few years with an expanded Detroit jazz brass section was shelved for decades to follow. A pan-American melting pot of hypnotic afro-cuban rhythms, frenetic batucadas and fiery sambas, Mora I & II are holy grails of latin jazz,...

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Marcos Resende & Index | The Lost Debut Album From 1976

Marcos Resende & Index | The Lost Debut Album From 1976

Release date: 29th January 2021 | Format: Vinyl LP, CD & digital Beyond their highly sought after 1978 album Festa Para Um Novo Rei­ - home to the mystical jazz-funk classic ‘Vidigal’ and released on Philips’ iconic Musica Popular Brasileira Contemporanea series (MPBC) - little is known about Marcos Resende & Index, even to aficionados of obscure Brazilian music. Far Out Recordings is immensely proud to present their previously unreleased self-titled debut album from 1976, contributing a crucial missing work from the glory days of progressive Brazilian instrumental music. Born in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, Brazil in 1947, Marcos Resende was a...

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New Reissue: Manfredo Fest's 'Brazilian Dorian Dream' from 1976

New Reissue: Manfredo Fest's 'Brazilian Dorian Dream' from 1976

Release date: 17th July 2020 | Formats: Vinyl LP / CD / Digital | Cat No: FARO219 LISTEN / PRE-ORDER / PRE-SAVE Legally blind from birth, Brazilian keyboard player, composer and bandleader Manfredo Fest learnt to read music in braille and began studying classical music at a young age. By 17 he had fallen in love with jazz (particularly the music of fellow blind pianist George Shearing) before becoming swept up in Rio’s emergent bossa nova movement in the sixties. Moving to the States in 1967 where he would go on to work with fellow countryman Sergio Mendes, Fest recorded...

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New Reissue: An early formation of Banda Black Rio - Cry Babies' debut album from 1969

New Reissue: An early formation of Banda Black Rio - Cry Babies' debut album from 1969

Release date: 31st January 2020 (Originally 1969) | Formats: Vinyl LP Only Far Out Recordings proudly presents Cry Babies’ self-titled debut album from 1969. An early formation of Brazilian funk greats Banda Black Rio, Cry Babies took inspiration from the iconic US soul records of James Brown, The Isley Brothers and Kool & The Gang, all of whom are covered on their first and only album. Pioneering Brazil’s funk fascination, Cry Babies paved the way for the likes of Jorge Ben, Dom Salvador, Trio Mocotó and Azymuth: with fat funky drum breaks, big round bass, touches of psychedelic Brazilian surf,...

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Milton Nascimento's Maria Maria to be Released on Vinyl for the First Time

Milton Nascimento's Maria Maria to be Released on Vinyl for the First Time

Release date: 13th December 2019 | Formats: Double Vinyl LP Stream / Pre-order  Far Out Recordings proudly presents Milton Nascimento’s Maria Maria. Recorded in 1976 and unreleased until almost thirty years later, the album was written as the soundtrack to a ballet which dealt with the legacy of slavery in Brazil. Raw, atmospheric and emotionally charged, Maria Maria reveals one of Brazil’s greatest ever songwriters at his creative peak. Featuring an all-star cast of fellow Brazilian legends including Nana Vasconcelos, Joao Donato, Paulinho Jobim, and members of Som Imaginario, Maria Maria holds what Milton considers to be the definitive versions...

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