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Record Store Day 2024 | Far Out Recordings celebrates 30 years with two monumental vinyl reissues
The Ipanemas - Samba Is Our Gift - First Ever Vinyl Pressing LIMITED EDITION GREEN VINYL FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2024 "Evokes a kinder, gentler version of Rio De Janerio... you can almost imagine hearing the samba choruses beaten out on a street corner... Those Buena Vista Social Club comparisons really aren't so far-fetched" - The Sunday Times Far Out Recordings kicks off its 30th anniversary celebrations with the long awaited, first ever vinyl pressing of The Ipanemas’ Samba is Our Gift. Originally released in 2006, the album combined Afro-Brazilian-bossa nova with classic vocal samba: a step back in time...
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...
Argentinian guitarist Agustin Pereyra Lucena's 1970 debut album set for audiophile reissue
Following Far Out’s reissue of Agustin Pereyra Lucena Quartet’s La Rana, the label continues its memorialisation of the late, great Argentinian guitarist’s music, with the first ever direct from tape, audiophile reissue of Pereyra Lucena’s self-titled debut album from 1970. One of the outstanding South American guitarists, Agustin Pereyra Lucena commanded a unique position in Latin music history. He hailed from Buenos Aires, but was obsessed with the music of Brazil. A disciple of Antônio Carlos Jobim, Baden Powell and Vinicius De Moraes, the nature of Agustin’s Argentinian roots combined with the nurture of Brazil and its music to give...
Bruno Berle releases new single "Tirolirole"
Release date: 17th November 2023 | Formats: digital single Bruno Berle, the young songwriter and poet originally hailing Maceió, the capital of Brazil’s Alagoas state, crafts songs that are simple, direct, and full of tender nuance. With his 2022 debut album No Reino Dos Afetos ("In the Realm of Affections”), Berle firmly established himself as a unique and important voice in the burgeoning scene of new Brazilian artists making a global impact, including peers like Ana Frango Elétrico, Tim Bernardes, Bala Desejo, Sessa and more. Now based in São Paulo, Berle releases a first hint of new music to come...
Fabiano Do Nascimento shares new single "Etude 1" from forthcoming album Mundo Solo
Far Out Recordings proudly presents the new album from Brazilian guitarist and composer Fabiano do Nascimento. Recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles (2020) Mundo Solo is fundamentally the sound of a man alone with his instruments. Utilizing a variety of guitars, including 6, 7 and 10 strings, Oktav guitar and electric baritone guitar, alongside a host of pedals and synthesizers, Fabiano tracked imagined landscapes with expressive, expansive improvisations, which tend toward the more ambient and atmospheric reaches of his recent output. Adopting Hermeto Pascoal’s concept of Universal Music, a rejection of nationalistic tendencies in order to express all...