Various Artists 

Too Slow to Disco Brasil (compiled by Ed Motta)

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Brazil Funk AOR

Catalog no: HDYA RE05

2LP | NEW  | 2018

169 LEI

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We’d like to introduce you to this giant of musical endeavour, the ‘Colossus of Rio’, as he’s known. For Ed’s sweetly agreed to be our point man on all matters smooth for this latest TSTD collection, where we take a dive into an often overlooked side of Brazilian music: Brazilian soul, funk and AOR.

 

Meet Ed Motta – a true Brazilian original
At the end of the 1980s Ed Motta burst upon the music scene as a major singer and one of the writers and producers in the band Conexão Japeri. This young nephew of Brazil’s legendary soul icon Tim Maia was an instant hit on the Carioca show circuit and the band’s 1988 debut album, “Ed Motta and Conexão Japeri”, confirmed his promise, including several big national hits. The songs were marked by a lavish musicality and introduced strong soul, jazz and funk elements into Brazil’s conventional pop-rock scene. It was soon clear that at the precocious age of just 16, Ed Motta had a musical vision and heaps of ambition.

 

He’s now fifteen albums into a career that hops from genre to genre, perhaps one of the savviest music makers and curators out there. He is a refined practitioner of jazz, funk, soul, AOR and much else besides, having worked with everyone from Gilles Peterson to Roy Ayers, 4Hero, Seu Jorge, Patrice Rushen, Greg Phillinganes, Bo Diddley, Incognito, Ryuichi Sakamoto and many other insanely talented musos. And as we’d heard good things about his home country’s undeniable chops in the smooth arena, in particular a glorious two decade run of song-making through the seventies and eighties, DJ Supermarkt decided to make that call.

 

Ed would like to share a few pointers to get you in the mood for this stylish listening experience: „Before slipping this LP on, you need to nail the AOR modus opeara… That means: a Hawaiian shirt à la Magnum PI, loafers without socks as in Miami Vice, jump in your convertible and drive under the coconut trees. This is a sunset ride through Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Miami, Hawaii. Aloha!”