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The original Rio beach boy returns in style, with a new record of unabashedly feel-good Brazilian party music.
Updating Marcos Valle’s seminal boogie-era sound, Sempre spans ecstatic disco, cosmic samba, and late-night jazz-funk, drawing obvious comparisons to some of Valle’s late-seventies and early-eighties output. ‘Estrelar’ (1983), for example, an ode to the joy of exercise, has become one of the biggest Brazilian disco hits of all time. But lyrically the new album is more closely reminiscent of Valle’s progressive early seventies’ releases. Heralding love, tolerance and living in the present, while satirising political corruption, the new release recalls a time in which Valle, together with his brother Paulo Sergio, was writing subtly subversive lyrics in order to bypass the censorship imposed by the military dictatorship, which ruled over Brazil between 1964 and 1985.
Updating Marcos Valle’s seminal boogie-era sound, Sempre spans ecstatic disco, cosmic samba, and late-night jazz-funk, drawing obvious comparisons to some of Valle’s late-seventies and early-eighties output. ‘Estrelar’ (1983), for example, an ode to the joy of exercise, has become one of the biggest Brazilian disco hits of all time. But lyrically the new album is more closely reminiscent of Valle’s progressive early seventies’ releases. Heralding love, tolerance and living in the present, while satirising political corruption, the new release recalls a time in which Valle, together with his brother Paulo Sergio, was writing subtly subversive lyrics in order to bypass the censorship imposed by the military dictatorship, which ruled over Brazil between 1964 and 1985.
Tracklist
Olha Quem Tá Chegando
Minha Romã
Odisséia
Alma
É Você**
Vou Amanhã Saber
Distância
Aviso Aos Navegantes
Sempre
Alma (Instrumental)**
Minha Romã (Instrumental)**
**CD ONLY
Minha Romã
Odisséia
Alma
É Você**
Vou Amanhã Saber
Distância
Aviso Aos Navegantes
Sempre
Alma (Instrumental)**
Minha Romã (Instrumental)**
**CD ONLY
Soundwave
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