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Release date: 16th March 2018 | Format Vinyl LP Pre-order from Far Out Shop | Bandcamp As a label guided by the mission of sharing the lesser heard sounds of Brazil with the world, Far Out Recordings are delighted to present the first vinyl reissue of Edu Passeto & Gui Tavares’ Noite Que Brincou De Lua: a super rare and largely unheard masterwork of MPB, originally released in 1981. Disciples of the Clube Da Esquina movement, pioneered by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, Edu & Gui mixed psychedelic folk, jazz, bossa, and rock for an album of soulful, dreamy Brazilian pop,...

Release date: 26th January 2018 | Formats: 12" Vinyl / Digital  A. RAW (Ron Trent Remix) | B. RAW (Original LP Mix) Pre-order from Far Out Shop | Bandcamp Far Out Recordings presents a huge peak time space-funk excursion from Italian duo AD Bourke & ROTLA (Raiders of the Lost Arp), with a remix from Chicago deep-house architect Ron Trent adding extra intensity to the aptly titled ‘RAW’. Having confirmed themselves as Rome’s premiere polymaths for all things electronic and funky (with releases on Space Dimension Controller’s Basic Rhythm, Five Fold, Cinite, Tusk Wax and Really Swing) AD Bourke &...

We're deeply saddened to hear about the passing of John Dent, one of the very best mastering engineers, and a real unsung British music legend. John has cut many records on Far Out, and became a good friend of the label and myself, after having been introduced by Mark Pritchard when John was just starting out in his new studio 'Loud' in Taunton, Somerset. We went on to work with John on many records over the years, including music by Azymuth, Sabrina Malheiros, Troubleman and countless 12"s. John has spent the last five decades mastering records at the very top of the industry, and his work includes countless classics from the Island Records catalogue...

In the label’s 23rd year, release number 200 arrived in the form of a ridiculously ahead of its time long lost album from 1976 by the musical god Hermeto Pascoal. Mystical Brazilian psych-folk from the Quartin catalogue was unearthed in the form of Piri’s Voces Querem Mate? Sabrina Malheiros made a very welcome return with her first studio album in six years and it was well worth the wait. São Paulo’s can-do-no-wrong 10-piece Nomade Orquestra did no wrong with their earth-traversing second album EntreMundos. And the dancier side of things saw scorching heat from some ultras of underground music including...

Release date: 9th Feb 18 | Formats: Vinyl LP / CD / Digital Tracklist:1. Ginger Bread Boy2. Children3. Marila4. Quarenta Graus A Sombra5. Ao Amigo Quartin Following the recent reissues of Jose Mauro’s Obnoxius, Piri’s Voces Querem Mate? and Victor Assis Brasil’s Toca Antonio Carlos Jobim, Far Out Recordings presents a second album from Victor Assis Brasil from the treasure trove of the Quartin Records catalogue, Esperanto. Over the course of the 1960s, Roberto Quartin released more than 20 albums in Brazil on his label Forma, by artists including the likes of Eumir Deodato, Quarteto Em Cy, Baden Powell and...