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This Rio-based jazz/funk/samba trio have been around since the early 70s and started recording for London's Far Out label two decades later. Butterfly is their latest new material for the label - an agreeably smooth, easy going album that's difficult to dislike, but equally, unless you're a hardcore fan, hard to get hugely excited about, by its very laid back nature.
They call what they do samba doido ('crazy samba') but the samba only really manifests itself surfaces occasionally, with the odd twinge of cuica (friction drum), or as on the extraordinary mid-tune percussion breakdown that busts through the veneer of cruisy jazz funk on Avenida Rio Branco.
The core members Jose Roberto Bertrami (keyboards) Alex Malheiros (bass, acoustic guitar) and drummer Ivan Conti are joined by several excellent guests, most notably flautist/saxophonist Ze Carlos and Arthur Verocai, whose guitar solo on New Dawn seems to have been relocated from the Steely Dan songbook. Vocals are pared right down to the occasional scat, as on the breezy Meu Doce Amigo and the chorus of Os Cara La - ''Os Cara La'' chanted over and over in pleasingly dippy fashion.
Bertrami drizzles tasty liquid honey solos from his Fender Rhodes and Hammond organ, especially sweet on New Dawn, while Conti simply dazzles on the frisky, polyrhythic Triagem, on which it would be easy to imagine Tania Maria as a guest vocalist. And Malheiros is one seriously funky bass player. The sparingly used string section give Herbie Hancock's title track a wonderfully spacey lightness that recalls Chris Bowden's Time Capsule album, and the Hancock influence reappears in the grainy, business-like synth
sounds of Hole In One.
What sounds like a reco-reco (guiro) makes a weird gasping effect on both Butterfly and Next Summer In Rio, effectively book ending the album. Okay, so the latter treads a fine line between carefree strolling and pedestrian predictability. This may well be music for airport waiting lounges or perhaps the moving staircases of vacuous tropical shopping malls. But if you insist on going to such places, why not do it in style? --Jon Lusk
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The mighty Azymuth make their individual stamp in 2008 with a brand new studio album which acts as a follow up to ‘Brazilian Soul’ released in 2004. This brilliant new project displays the bands timeless ability to push the boundaries of jazz infused electronic music with a pioneering selection of new tracks that will appeal not only to the hardcore Azymuth fanbase but also to new fans of jazz and electronic music. Their eighth studio album, it sees Azymuth staking their claim as the true legends of Rio’s music scene, even three decades after their debut during the swinging '70s. Tracks: Butterfly / Os Cara La / Meu Doce Amigo / Caititu / Avenida Rio Branco / New Dawn / Triagem / Hole In One / Morning / Next Summer In Rio. Tour : 19 OCT 08 Brighton UK Beachdown Festival / 20 Oct Bristol / 22 OCT London UK Jazz Café Also available: FARO117CD AZIMUTH (CD2) / FARO046LP BEFORE WE FORGET (LP2) / FARO090 BIAOZINHO CARIOCA/O LANCE (12) / FARO091CD BRAZILIAN SOUL / FARO091LP BRAZILIAN SOUL (LP2) / FARO063CD PARTIDO NOVO / FARO069 PARTIDO NOVO (12) / FARO063LP PARTIDO NOVO(LP) / FARO105CD PURE (BEST OF 1995-2006) (CD2.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This is wonderful! Jazzy, sophisticated grooves that just wash over you. Absolutely perfect to enjoy with a nice glass of wine after hours by the fire. Next Summer in Rio is my personal favourite, it makes me smile so much!
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More quality from the "Jazz Carnival Guys". Pretty much what you'd expect - great tunes and superb instrumentation. Quite simply, I can't get enough of this band. They manage to make music that suits every conceivable mood/emotion. Brilliant!
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Azymuth's back after 4 years!!!!!!
29 Dec 2008
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This is a very good recording by the best Brazilian Jazz group ever come out of Brasil; and I mentioned very good recording, without making it to the excellent-recordings status we have been used to from Azymuth in the past.
It is a more slower-paced album with some particular highlights like their tribute song to Herbie Hancock's Butterfly, but for the most part Azymuth has slightly missed the mark at not having songs that have lasting and memorable melodies; including for example the song: "Next Summer in Rio"; which is not even the shadow of its counterpart "Last Summer in Rio" from 1982; and in that regard that's the only "but" I would state from this new release.
Their guests for this album are:
- Arthur Verocai / Electric Guitar and String Arrangements
- Ze Carlos / Sax and Flutes
- Robertinho Silva / Percussions
- Tiago Martins / Percussion
- Alex Pilkington / Guitars
and
- Paulinho Guitara / Electric Guitars.
Highlights from Farout's liner notes: "Caititu" and "Triagem", but in my personal point of view, the best songs here besides the Title track, are: cut no. 2 "Os Cara La" and cut no. 5 "Avenida Rio Branco".
Very enjoyable even though we wished for more melodic tunes, but an absolute must-have if you like Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and if you collect Azymuth's music like thousands of us do.
It is a more slower-paced album with some particular highlights like their tribute song to Herbie Hancock's Butterfly, but for the most part Azymuth has slightly missed the mark at not having songs that have lasting and memorable melodies; including for example the song: "Next Summer in Rio"; which is not even the shadow of its counterpart "Last Summer in Rio" from 1982; and in that regard that's the only "but" I would state from this new release.
Their guests for this album are:
- Arthur Verocai / Electric Guitar and String Arrangements
- Ze Carlos / Sax and Flutes
- Robertinho Silva / Percussions
- Tiago Martins / Percussion
- Alex Pilkington / Guitars
and
- Paulinho Guitara / Electric Guitars.
Highlights from Farout's liner notes: "Caititu" and "Triagem", but in my personal point of view, the best songs here besides the Title track, are: cut no. 2 "Os Cara La" and cut no. 5 "Avenida Rio Branco".
Very enjoyable even though we wished for more melodic tunes, but an absolute must-have if you like Jazz, Brazilian Jazz and if you collect Azymuth's music like thousands of us do.
Nothing Memorable
8 April 2011
Format:Audio CD
The musicianship is the usual Azymuth excellence, but the group must be experienceing some "writers block" and covering Herbie Hancocks "Butterfly" only solidifies that point. There are no Azymuth classics here, Meu Dolce Amigo.......eh, the rest, not even close. Like their "Carioca" release, this is not one to play introducing the group to your friends.
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