Maurício Fleury - RevoadaFormat : LP Label : Altercat Catalog # : ALT020 Genre : Funk Soul Brazil Delve into the quirky and psych tinged world of Brazilian pianist, composer and multi instrumentalist Mauricio Fleury. With more than a hint to Brazilian jazz greats like Azymuth, Deodato and CTI Records in their prime, Revoada is a groove based jazz framed record, primed with other transitory musical vignettes which touches on Turkish psych and soul jazz born out of the 70s film

“Open Close” flutters with interjections that feel like question marks before oozing into a head-nodding thud

acoustic bass

with upfront drums and Rhodes chords washing over in melodic bliss

Blackman came from the jazz world

Midnight in Peckham

MPB and batacuda workouts

able to turn his hand to a multitude of styles

Chico César

intercepted alien transmissions

which whilst heavily referencing it's inspirations manages to be somewhat modern sounding

Label : Scissors and Thread

Lawrence English