Memory doesnʼt age, it always remains the same.
 
“Memoria” is an album about my memories, my hometown, the scent and flavours of my childhood, things Iʼve read, movies Iʼve watched at the cinema and my love for music. Itʼs about going back home, re-establishing a link with the past and recalling cheerful and happy memories.
“Memoria” refers specifically to the regions of Minais Gerais and the Brazilian northeast, its hot climate, the religiousness of the people and its faith in miracles, calling to mind images of mysterious and surreal popular tales, where time flows slowly in an intimate dimension.
 
Toco


Toco - Meu Rio

Brazilian Edits

Pirão e Colher de Pau (Corazon Edit)

Name Your Price

Os Originais Do Samba - Pirão E Colher De Pau (Corazón Edit)

Shigeo Sekito - ザ・ワードII (The Word II )

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Estate - João Gilberto

Blue Bossa

Out now on Mr Bongo

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Johnny Alf - Samba Sem Balanço

Joao Gilberto's debut LP, 1959's Chega de Saudade, was one of the most important Bossa Nova recordings, and credited by many as the album that launched bossa nova as a major popular music genre.

The 15 songs songs add up to a surprisingly short playing time but introduce several of bossa nova's most beloved trademarks: breezy, soothing melodies and vocals; tight arrangements with seamless blends of clipped guitar strokes and light orchestration, and, of course, the Bossa Nova rhythm. The most popular of these songs - "Chega de Saudade" and "Desafinado" - had already been released as singles in 1958.

João Gilberto - Bim Bom

An artist as imaginative and unique as Ana Mazzotti doesn’t come around often. Dubbed a “super-musician” by fellow Brazilian virtuoso Hermeto Pascoal, Mazzotti’s short but rich musical career culminated in just two studio albums: Ninguem Vai Me Segurar (1974), and Ana Mazzotti (1977). Outside circles of Brazilian funk aficionados, these two gems of spellbinding samba-jazz, lysergic funk and trippy bossa have remained relatively obscure. This was partly as a result of Mazzotti’s premature death (she lost her battle with cancer in her mid-thirties), but also due to financial restraints and the prejudice she faced as a female songwriter in a fundamentally sexist society.  

Born in Caixas, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul municipality, Mazzotti began to play the accordion aged five, before moving with prodigious ease onto the piano. By the age of twelve she was already conducting her convent school’s choir, and at twenty-one she led her city’s premier chorus, the Coral Bento Goncalves. 	When rock and roll hit South America in the sixties, a young Mazzotti was one of the early adopters, fronting various guitar groups including an all female Beatles cover band, and an eclectic, eight-piece psychedelic group Desenvolvemento. Before moving to Sao Paulo to start her career proper, Mazzotti met drummer, producer and fellow music educator Romido Santos, who she would later marry. Romildo introduced Mazzotti to jazz, and music by the likes of Chick Corea and Hermeto Pascoal who she would later befriend and perform with.

In 1974 Mazzotti recorded her first album Ninguem Vai Me Segurar (1974), enlisting the in-demand arrangement talents of Azymuth’s original keyboard maestro Jose Roberto Bertrami who co-wrote several of the tracks and plays organ, piano and synthesizers on the album. It also features Azymuth’s bassist Alex Malheiros and percussionist Ariovaldo Contestini, with Romildo Santos who produced the album on drums. Recorded in Estudio Haway around the same time Azymuth recorded their debut album there, it’s no wonder the samba jazz-funk pioneer’s distinctive aesthetic is present throughout, and Mazzotti’s sensational compositions are made even more beautiful for it.

Kicking off with the swirling samba-jazz-dance masterpiece ‘Agora Ou Nunca Mais’, the album hosts several groove-heavy Brazilian cult-classics including ‘Roda Mundo’ and ‘Eu Sou Mais Eu’. Deeper moments come in the form of the alluring future soul synth sounds on ‘Bairro Negro’ and ‘Sou’, and Mazzotti’s tender, hallucinatory version of ‘Feel Like Making Love’ (made famous by Roberta Flack) perfectly reflecting the idiosyncratic genius Mazzotti achieved with Bertrami’s visionary arrangements, and Romildo’s impeccable production approach. 

Far Out Recordings is proud to present the official reissue of this cult favourite Brazilian treasure. Remastered and pressed to 180g vinyl, Ninguem Vai Me Segurar (1974) will be available on vinyl LP, CD and digitally from 13th September.

Vinyl / CD / Digi

Feel Like Making Love

🇧🇷O cantor e compositor brasileiro Toco, residente em Florença, é um dos mais notáveis ​​artistas do Schema. Samba, Bossa, Nu-Brazilian… Esses são apenas alguns rótulos para descrever o rico mundo musical do talentoso Tomaz di Cunto.

🇺🇸Brazilian singer-songwriter Toco, residing in Florence, is one of the most notable artists of Schema.  Samba, Bossa, Nu-Brazilian… These are just a few labels to describe the rich musical world of the talented Tomaz di Cunto.

https://toco.bandcamp.com/community

Toco - Simples

Release:
DJ ToCo, natural de Minas Gerais, teve início na sua carreira de deejaay em 2005, mais desde antes já tinha uma base, pois acompanhava seu pai no trabalho de sonorização, que na época ainda tomava frente da Top Som Sonorizações, que nos dias atuais está sobe seu comando, uma simples "brincadeira" de tocar em um baile a primeira vez para sua turma de colégio (Formandos 3ª ano 2005), fez com que ele descobrir se um talento nato para a E-Music, aprendeu sozinho as técnicas de mixagem e ao longo desses anos vem se dedicando cada vez mais e aos poucos conquistando espaço no cenário voltado a eventos e festas na região da ZONA DA MATA mineira, seu set mix vai desde House Mix, passeando pelas variantes até chegar ao Funk Music, levando um estilo totalmente eclético para as pistas e um repertório super variado, atualizado e empolgante que agrada a todos!

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Dj ToCo Produções #002