Marcos Valle
Samba '68
180 gram Vinyl Edition. Elemental Music, together with Universal Music Spain presents a new vinyl reissue of “Samba ’68“, the only album released on the Verve label by prolific Brazilian singer Marcos Valle. In 1968, Valle was commissioned by Verve to record his Brazilian hits in English in order to capitalize on the then-huge Getz-Gilberto-Jobim-Mendes-Astrud market. Marcos’ rapid and stunning artistic growth is apparent on this brilliant Bossa Nova album. Fans of Sérgio Mendes and Astrud Gilbe…
Marcos Valle
Vampisoul present a reissue of Marcos Valle's 1983 self-titled album. Valle is one of the few artists one cannot miss if one has the slightest interest in Brazilian music. Whether one's taste is focused on bossa jazz, samba, psych folk or soul, Valle has surely recorded an album to match. By the late '60s he had already put out enough quality records to secure a place within the top Brazilian songwriters of all time, but his career did not stop there and he continued releasing amazing music over…
O Fabuloso Fittipaldi
Exact reproduction LP by Le Vieux Renard Records of this 1973 sensational album. From the golden archives of Brazilian Library music, here comes the mighty soundtrack of O Fabuloso Fittipaldi featuring a very early incarnation of Azymuth performing compositions by Marcos Valle and Paulo Sérgio Valle for a documentary about the legendary Formula 1 driver Emerson Fittipaldi. An holy grail among Brazilian grooves collectors, the album also features the voices of Emerson Fittipaldi and his wife Mari…
Previsao Do Tempo
Ten years after Marcos Valle’s debut long player (Samba Demais) introduced Brazilian music lovers to the immense talents of the Valle brothers, a new direction and backing band helped the singer expand his musical palette. Showcasing a groovy funk and jazz-fusion influence with help from then current backing band Azimuth (later known as Azymuth), synthesizers, Fender Rhodes, and electronic sounds took Valle’s samba, bossa nova, baião (a rhythmic beat from the rural northeast of Brazil), along wi…