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Artist:	LOBO, EDU
Title:	Sergio Mendes Presents...Lobo
Label:	REV-OLA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	CRREV 140CD

"Edu Lobo...One of the leaders of Brasil's Tropicalia movement along with the immortal Jorge Ben...songwriter and singer of distinction...composing both music of startling innovation AND songs which became worldwide standards, following the template laid down by Ben... By 1970 it had become expedient for Lobo and his wife, Wanda de Sah, to leave Brasil and seek refuge in the US...where they took part in assorted jazz recordings...and their friend Sergio Mendes produced Lobo's first album released outside Brasil for the amazing A&M label! Featuring the cream of the A&M sounders, with the Brasil '66 rhythm section led by Airto Moreira to the fore this is a simply astonishing and assured leap into new territory...with English lyrics on some songs by Herb Alpert's wife, former Brasil '66 singer Lani Hall, and startling Jazz/Tropicalia vocal arrangements by Sergio Mendes' wife Gracinha Leporace, it's a hell of a debut...but outside Brasil, that's what it was! From his shimmering 5th Dimension-like 'Crystal Illusions,' translated by Lani Hall and a hit for Brasil '66, to his standard 'To Say Goodbye,' a hit for oh so many people, to his jazz/Tropicalia/A&M Sound transformation of The Beatles 'Hey Jude,' the album is just perfect...the spirit of Brasil and the A&M Sound meet head on...and the result is sheer pleasure!"

Artist:	LOBO, EDU
Title:	A Musica De Edu Lobo Por Edu Lobo
Label:	UNIVERSAL SOUND (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	US 042CD

"Edu Lobo is one of the towering giants of Brazilian music to emerge out of the Bossa Nova scene in Brazil in the 1960s with this, his stunning debut album in 1965. Released on the seminal Elenco Records label, producer Aloysio de Oliveira enlisted the help of the greatest bossa jazz group ever, The Tamba Trio (led by Luiz Eça), to help launch the gifted singer, songwriter Lobo into the spotlight. As well as his own classic compositions (which he often wrote for singers such as Elis Regina), Lobo also collaborated with the greatest lyricists such as Vinicius de Moraes and the radical left-wing film-maker Ruy Guerra, to produce some of the most important songs in Brazilian music, songs such as 'Reza', 'Arrastao', 'Boranda' (all featured here) and many more. His complex music helping pave the way for the emergence of the new musical movement, Musica Popular Brasileira, which replaced Bossa Nova in the mid-1960s. This is a bespoke high quality box-edition CD of this seminal album with exact-reproduction artwork of the original album, never before released outside Brazil."

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