Getting in the mood for the big kick-off this week.

Ed Lincoln - Se Você Quiser (Mark Wayward Edit)

The twelfth record in our Brazil 45s series - http://www.mrbongo.com/products/elza-soares-mas-que-nada-elizabeth-vou-falar-lhe-francamente-7

A. Elza Soares - Mas Que Nada
AA. Elizabeth - Vou Falar-Lhe Francamente

Elizabeth - Vou Falar-Lhe Francamente

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Due to popular demand; a double A side from the one and only, Marcos Valle. This is the second time he has appeared in this Brazil 45’s series.

'Democustico' is a lush, uptempo MPB constructed from guitars, rolling percussion and soaring woodwind. Taken from his 1972 LP ‘Vento Sul’ on Odeon Brazil.

'Freio Aerodinâmico' is an uptempo piano driven, bossa/MPB, laden with hooky vocals, strings and horns, underpinned with a funk drum groove. Aeroplane sound effects thrown in for good measure! Taken from his 1970 self-titled LP on Odeon Brazil.

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Marcos Valle - Freio Aerodinamico

Brazil 45, number 35 - http://www.mrbongo.com/products/joao-luiz-super-mulher-toni-tornado-poder-crer-amizade-7

A: Joao Luiz - Super Mulher

‘Super Woman’! Sought after Brazilian latin-funk-psyche, released originally on RCA in 1974. Snappy drums and bongo’s, organ and guitars back Luiz’ lead vocal.


B: Toni Tornado - Poder Crer Amizade

Brazilian Funk master Toni Tornado is back again; a firm favourite in this series. Mid-tempo, break-heavy funk/soul, taken from his hard to find BR-3 LP. Banger.

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Toni Tornado - Poder Crer Amizade

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Brazil 45, number 75 https://www.mrbongo.com/products/carlos-sodre-ciumeira-rasga-teu-verso-vinyl-7

Double sider of uptempo vintage MPB samba jazz from Carlos Sodré, originally released as a 33rpm ‘compacto’ 7” single on Copacabana in 1965.

Carlos Sodré – Ciumeira

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Volume Three in the Mr Bongo Record club series. Another showcase of recent vinyl finds and favourites from our DJ sets and radio shows. This is an extra special one however, as it lands in 2019, the year that we celebrate 30 years since it all began way back in 1989.

Compiled by David Buttle and Gareth Stephens, assisted by Graham Luckhurst and Gary Johnson.

Mr Bongo Record Club Volume Three

Zé Do Trem

An hour of seeds and things and flowers for @nts_live. 

Tracklist: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mark-wayward-7th-april-2019 

(Couple of updates to the tracklist: the Teena Marie track is an extended edit I made for the mix rather than just the reprise, and the version of Roberta Flack's "Feel like making love" is the Reflex Revision).

Springtime Special for NTS Radio - 07.04.19

The Cranes were one of Uganda’s most popular teenage bands in the 1970’s. Founded in 1965, they metamorphosed at the end of the 1970’s into the Afrigo Band which is still, up to today, the number one band in the country. What’s love and Joy, both written by singer and guitarist Tony Senkebejje, appeared in 1974 on the only Cranes’ LP ‘Top Ten Hits’.
When the album hit the record stores in Kampala, bad luck had befallen The Cranes. A month before the recording of the album their bass player Jessy Kasirivu was killed because of President Idi Amin’s amorous association with his girlfriend. Senkebejje, scared for his life, fled to Kenya, only returning to Uganda 15 years later. The song What’s love describes how confusing love can be to a young soul and is partly inspired by Kasirivu’s death. Joy is a love song for Senkebejje’s wife Rachel who followed him to Kenya and who has been singing lead and playing guitar with him in their Simba Sounds Band ever since. Both songs feature prominently in the documentary Bwana Jogoo: the ballad of Jessy Gitta (2019 – 70 min – UG/NL/FR) which investigates the death of Jessy Kasisirvu at the hands of Idi Amin‘s State Research agents. Bwana Jogoo, directed by Dutch filmmaker Michiel van Oosterhout, showcases many great 1970’s songs from Uganda while letting Uganda’s musicians of yesteryears recount fond memories of one of their own, Jessy Kasirivu. These are the folks that worked and socialized with Jessy and knew him better than most. Their accounts of the events that led to Jessy’s disappearance are riveting and haunting. It lays bare a hitherto unexplored subject and one deserving of serious interrogation and scholarship – the naked power of authoritarianism and sexual predation.

The Cranes

The Cranes What's Love/Joy New Afro7 single - snippets

Following on from his critically acclaimed 2019 solo album Poison Fruit, Azymuth’s iconic drummer Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti returns with ‘Katmandu’, a new release from the Poison Fruit project. Though it was recorded and mixed in the same sessions, ‘Katmandu’ was mysteriously omitted by Mamão from the Poison Fruit album, either accidentally or on purpose, he’s not quite sure. What is for sure is that it’s one of the most potent poison grooves of them all.

The original mix, produced by Daniel Maunick, accompanies remixes from three of mainland Europe’s finest DJ/producer combos in the game, iconic German nu-jazz collective Jazzanova, MCDE Recordings & Faces Records’ Pablo Valentino, and Croatian house veteran Eddy Ramich with assistance from Zagreb duo Jan Kinčl & Regis Kattie.

This EP is the second in a series of limited edition dance 12”s celebrating 25 years of Far Out Recordings and is housed in a special sleeve which uses the label’s original semiquaver logo from 1994.

Katmandu (Original Mix)

More dusty beats from beneath the flagstones, this one was made around Mishaps Happening era, never finished and never released.

Out from the Cellar #7

Record label. Record shop. Film label. Since 1989.

Toni Tornado - Poder Crer Amizade

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