wonderful stuff - infectious groove and nice arrangement

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DESTINY'S DOOR - Master Mix 48/24

a mix (vinyl) of classic Brazilian Jazz I created some years ago.

Barzilian Jazz

Brazilian Jazz Classics Mix (vinyl)

Contemporary Groovy Brazilian Music - Samba Rock

Zé Luis: tenor sax, flutes, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drums, percussion and FX.
Sean Marquand: engineering, programming and mixing.
Arrangements: Zé Luis
Additional Arrangements: Sean Marquand

Produced by Sean Marquand and Zé Luis for Tummy Touch Music Group (UK)

MOSQUITO (Composed by Zé Luis) For Tummy Touch Music Group (UK)

Gone Gone Beyond - You Can't Go Wrong (Feat. Kat Factor)

A note about the song by singer Danny Musengo.

-Last year around this time I was talking to my therapist about a cartoon I saw as a kid, The Grasshopper and The Ant.

Even as a child I worried I was the grasshopper... playing music and gallivanting about while the ants prepared for the long winter ahead.

I explained to my therapist that I had just split with my girlfriend, left my apartment, left my job and to top it off... I had given up the one thing that kept my lifelong existential crisis at bay... alcohol. The long winter had indeed come and I was feeling more and more like the grasshopper in the story.

My therapist just looked at me knowingly and asked "Have you ever watched the cartoon until the end?" I hadn't.

"...the ants realize their lives are dull without the grasshopper and his music... so they invite him in to play for them."

This was both a relief and a revelation.

Later that night Dave and I were in the backyard taking a smoke break from a frustrating recording session. We sat silently staring at the stars for some time before Dave suggested that we put away the song we were working on and write a new one. It was 3am.

We got up and walked back down into the studio. Dave sat at the Rhodes, pressed record and started playing the giant chords you hear at the beginning of the track.

They reminded me of the story from my therapy session.

I approached the mic and started to sing.

The whole song came out in one long breath. No edits. No doubling back.

Just one clear cut message from God to the grasshopper.

Assuring him...
Thing are changing ... for the better this time 😉

Big love to Slava "Mindex" who helped with some production and mixing on this one!

Gone Gone Beyond - Things Are Changing

Vai Passar
Autoria: Ana Luiza Cavalcanti/Sonia Bessa
Ana Luiza Cavalcanti - voz, piano, sintetizadores
Sonia Bessa - baixo, guitarra, programação, backing vocals
Produção e Arranjo: Ana Luiza Cavalcanti/Sonia Bessa
Gravado no SIM Studio

VAI PASSAR

This is just a demo sorry if it sounds sloppy I can't really record the drums well since I only have one mic.
Vocals+Bass coming soon

Media Jesus

Miserable Bliss-Demo

Film Composer, Music Producer, Arranger & Multi-instrumentalist. From Rio de Janeiro~Brazil. Based in New York, NY~USA 

A composer and woodwind stylist, he has been a professional with decades of experience featured on hundreds of recordings. Leading saxophonist in Brazil in the 1980s, Zé Luis has performed and recorded with—and arranged and composed for—many of the biggest names in Brazilian music, such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tania Maria and Cazuza to name a few.

A NYC resident since 1990, when he moved from his native Rio de Janeiro, Zé Luis originally got a foothold in the city working as a freelance composer. Although he specializes in flutes and saxophones, he also has a high comfort level with guitar, percussion, bass and keys. For 18 years as the owner of The Atelier Music Studio, he has been composing, producing and recording music for albums, film/TV and converging media.

It’s a remarkably diverse skill set that helped Zé Luis to earn credits that include work with Bebel Gilberto, Sabina Sciubba, Brazilian Girls, Ivy, Pull, Verve, Cannes Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Independent Lens, Rio (directed by Carlos Saldanha), Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (directed by Mark Waters), Monster-in-Law (directed by Robert Luketic), A Raisin in the Sun (directed by Kenny Leon), Burn Notice (TV Series-creator: Matt Nix, directed by Jace Alexander), sessions for original music house Tomandandy and collaborations with the oft-synch-licensed Orba Squara. Some of those works received accolades including nominations for the Golden Globe, Grammy and the Oscar.

As a solo artist, produced the self-titled Zé Luis EP and two albums of his original compositions, Guarani Banana and Caiapó. Acclaimed in the American press, Zé Luis and his work have garnering enthusiastic coverage in DownBeat, Saxophone Journal, Rhythm and Jazziz, among many other publications. 

Since 2013 Zé Luis has been in the helm of producing, engineering and playing for the web series “Trade Winds” a Musical Iconography of Africa and the Americas. This journey has began in New York and brought him to New Orleans, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Next destinations will be Recife, Salvador and Rio de Janeiro – Brazil. 

Endorsements: Sonic Scores/Overture & D'Addario Woodwinds

Current Projects: 

TRADE WINDS 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPZIeQwwxQnSwDej4hCfFMOeXM4rp0t_q

SAMBISMO
Production and A&R team created by Zé Luis Oliveira and Béco Dranoff.
http://sambismo.com


Z L Music NY/BMI

MOSQUITO (Composed by Zé Luis) For Tummy Touch Music Group (UK)

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