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01. Os Sambeatles - Can't Buy Me Love
02. Os Sambeatles - Michelle
03. Os Sambeatles - A Hard Day's Night
04. Os Sambeatles - Girl
05. Os Sambeatles - Ticket To Ride
06. Os Sambeatles - I Should Have Known Better
07. Os Sambeatles - Help
08. Os Sambeatles - Yesterday
09. Os Sambeatles - All My Loving
10. Os Sambeatles - And I Love Her
11. Os Sambeatles - Ask Me Why
12. Os Sambeatles - If I Fell
ARTIST
TITLE
Os Sambeatles
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
VAMPI 253LP VAMPI 253LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/20/2022

2023 restock, new lower pricing. Vampisoul present a first-time vinyl reissue of Os Sambeatles' self-titled album, originally released in 1966. Rare 1966 Brazilian LP with a jazz/bossa nova take on songs by the Beatles performed by the very talented Manfredo Fest and his trio. It was originally released right after their classic 1965 RGE album and has a very similar jazz-based sound. Manfredo Fest was part of the gathering of Brazilian musicians of the late-50s who were developing the bossa nova movement, and he made a number of trio recordings in that vein from 1961 to 1966. After emigrating to Minneapolis in 1967, Fest moved to Los Angeles where he served as keyboardist and arranger for Bossa Rio and toured with Sergio Mendes. This recording is all instrumental, strongly jazz-based, with piano as the main solo instrument, soaring over the top of some tight, crackling rhythms. The songs are all played with imaginative scents that really take them from their roots as pop songs and open them up as groovers filled with keyboard improvisations. A nice slice of how the bossa nova sound was evolving in its homeland as well as the international impact the Beatles were having on countries outside of the US, England, Japan, and Germany.