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The prodigious piano phenomenon returns to Europe! Book your tickets now to witness the spiritual Brazilian rhythm master alongside his incredible trio this September and October. Also, watch this space for an Amaro Freitas vinyl repress coming soon! 29.09 Perpignan - Jazzèbre Festival 🇫🇷 - Tickets 30.09 Nimes - Nîmes Métropole 🇫🇷 - Tickets 05.10 London - Ronnie Scott’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Tickets 11.10 Innsbruck - Treibhaus Luzern 🇦🇹 - Tickets coming soon 12.10 Oslo - Cosmopolite 🇳🇴 - Tickets 14.10 Warsaw - Jassmine 🇵🇱 - Tickets 19.10 Salzburg - Jazz & The City 🇦🇹 - Tickets 20.10 Nancy - Jazz Pulsations 🇫🇷...

Celebrating 80 years of Marcos Valle, the renaissance man of Brazilian pop announces a world tour and a limited vinyl repress of his Nova Bossa Nova album!One the most important composers, arrangers, writers and performers in Brazil’s history. There are not many artists in any era, in any part of the world, in recorded music history that can boast a career as enduring and stylistically varied as Marcos Valle. Spanning the full breath of his six-decade career, Marcos Valle's live show draws upon his sixties bossa standards like "Summer Samba" and "Crickets Sing For Anamaria", music from his hugely prolific seventies output including...

Release date: 30th June 2023 | Format: Double Vinyl LP/ CD/Digital | Cat No: FARO239 Renowned Italian spiritual jazz master, DJ, producer, guitarist, and bandleader Nicola Conte proudly presents his new album Umoja via London based label Far Out Recordings. A joyous exultation across ten tracks, Umoja taps into the abundant well of knowledge Conte has amassed over his career as connoisseuring compiler and archivist of deep jazz, latin, afrofuturist, bossa-nova and soul music from around the world. Expressing unity, oneness and harmony in Swahili, Umoja coalesces universal feelings through the multifaceted global music Conte has spent his life studying and researching. Having released music with...

It has been a very difficult week at Far Out. Last Tuesday morning we heard the tragic news that our dear friend, legendary drummer and one of the founding members of Azymuth Ivan "Mamão" Conti had passed away unexpectedly in the night. Just a few hours before, Mamão had been discussing the finer details of Azymuth's upcoming tour with Joe.As you can imagine, we are all still hurting and grieving alongside Mamao's family, friends and Azymuth bandmates. We have been deeply moved by the overwhelming response from friends and fans of Azymuth and the widespread outpouring of love and appreciation...

Som Imaginário are the stuff of MPB mythos. Integral to Brazil’s Clube Da Esquina movement in the early 1970s, a heady blend of progressive rock, folk, psychedelia, jazz and traditional Brazilian rhythm flows through the three studio albums the band recorded between ‘70 and ‘73. Flying the countercultural freak-flag amid the context of military dictatorship, the Brazilian prog lords shared much of the sense of experimentation and bountiful fuzz bequeathed by their tropicalismo forbearers. But armed with genius composers, arrangers and stupendously high-level musicianship, Som Imaginário introduced a potent harmonic complexity to Brazilian popular music, which would inspire generations of...