Os Tincoãs
Creatively visionary and groundbreaking on numerous terms, 1973 'Os Tincoãs' revolutionized Brazilian music by harmonizing Afro-religious singing, heavenly vocal harmonies, and frawing on Yoruba mythology, Samba, Capoeira chants and spiritual songs.
Tim Maia 1970
*2025 reissue* This is the first full-length LP by the famous Brazilian musician and songwriter Sebastião "Tim" Rodrigues Maia, known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. This album includes the classics "Azul da Cor do Mar", "Coroné Antônio Bento", and "Primavera", which topped the charts for 24 weeks in Rio de Janeiro.
10 Anos Depois
10 Anos Depois is the tenth album by Brazilian musical artist Jorge Ben, released in 1973. It is a collection of popular songs from the first decade of his career re-recorded as medleys.
Ben
The long unavailable ninth album by Brazilian star Jorge Ben. Released in 1972, "Ben" comes from one of Jorge Ben’s most artistically important phases, the early 70s. The album has some of Ben’s most famous songs, “Taj Mahal” (plagiarized by Rod Stewart on his song “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, as the British singer admitted himself in 2012), and “Fio Maravilha”, paying homage to Flamengo’s iconic football player Fio Maravilha.
Clube Da Esquina
Clube da Esquina is a 1972 double album by the Brazilian music artists collective Clube da Esquina, credited to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges. Considered one of the greatest Brazilian albums and an important record in the history of Brazilian music, it features arrangements by Eumir Deodato and Wagner Tiso, and conductions by Paulo Moura. The album garnered high attention for its engaged compositions and miscellany of sounds. Indeed, the LP was considered in the list of the Brazilian version o…
Tim Maia 1973
An icon of Brazilian popular music, Tim Maia was a musical polymath and prolific recording artist best known for introducing American soul to the Brazilian music scene, pioneering the sambalanço style by blending elements of soul, funk, rock, and samba. Maia recorded four self-titled albums for Polydor Brazil, this fourth release from 1973 arguably the best, with its outstanding hits ‘Réu Confesso’ and ‘Gostava Tanto de Você’; ‘Do Your Thing, Behave Yourself’ shows how the soul form fitted him p…
Warm World Of Joao Gilberto
Brazilian singer, poet, guitarist Joao Gilberto made his 1959 debut with the now legendary LP, 'Chega de Saudade', a new sound and acknowledge as the first bossa nova album, a genre that swept the world in popularity and taken up by such artists as Stan Getz, Charly Byrd, Astrud Gilberto, Frank Sinatra, Quincy Jones, and countless others. Presented here is essentially a themed compilation of some of his best songs, including tracks from his acclaimed debut LP, 'Chega de Saudade'.
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…
Bossa Nova!
Back in stock ! "Originally released in 1961 as Joao Gilberto, this historic album is one of the great cornerstones of bossa nova. Accompanied by Tom Jobim (who wrote such standards as 'Garota de Ipanema' and 'Desafinado') and organist Walter Wanderley (best known for his smooth Hammond playing and the 1966 hit 'Summer Samba'), Gilberto plays songs like 'Samba da minha terra' and 'O amor em paz,' both of which (along with most of the songs on this album) would soon become standards of the genre.…
Gravado Ao Vivo No Maracanãzinho
*2024 stock * Recorded live at the Maracanãzinho gymnasium in 1974 for a TV Globo special and released in 1980. Good quality considering the time and the precariousness of Brazilian technology. Lot for the improvisations and the totally Rock'n Roll feel. This phrase stolen from the band's Orkut community says it all: "If, at that time, a mother ship had landed, for example, in the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília and dumped some aliens through its doors, it wouldn't have caused such an impact,…
Ao Vivo
*2024 stock* Os Mutantes' Ao Vivo is the seventh album originally released in 1976 by the Brazilian band Os Mutantes and their first live album, with only new material on it. Like it's predecessor, Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol, the only original member of the band to take part in this album is guitarist Sérgio Dias. Reissue on 180g vinyl by Polysom (Brazil)-
Na Terra A Mais De Mil
*2024 stock * Known throughout Brazil for his success with the group Novos Baianos, Pepeu Gomes launched his solo career with the album "Geração do Som" (1978). In 1979, after the end of the band and already considered one of the greatest guitarists in the country, Pepeu presented his first album also singing, "Na Terra a Mais de Mil" (1979). The album is now back on the shelves on 180 gram vinyl, in Polysom's "Clássicos em Vinil" collection.The album features 12 songs, all written by Pepeu with…
Raul Seixas
*2024 stock * Originally released in 1983 on the Eldorado label, the album "Raul Seixas", also known as "carimbador maluco" because of the success of this song, is a milestone in the artist's career. "O Carimbador Maluco" was the theme song for the children's special "Plunct Plact Zuuum", which aired on Rede Globo and was a huge success at the time. Raul Seixas himself took part in the special playing the crazy stamping man himself, a bureaucrat who demanded documents from a spaceship. In addit…
Caetano Veloso (Irene)
*2024 repress* Lilith Records present a reissue of Caetano Veloso's Caetano Veloso (Irene), originally issued in 1969. Although Veloso had already been thrown in jail once for his criticism of Brazil's military regime, he continued to speak out against it on Caetano Veloso (Irene), with tracks like Irene, (about a machine gun-toting outlaw celebrated by the left). No wonder he would soon find himself in political exile in the UK. The general tone of the album is in keeping with its dire message …
Des (Trambelhar) Ou Não
A joint release between Litoral Records and Três Selos in Brazil. One of the first independently released Brazilian records, Alcides Neves’ debut LP ‚Tempo de Fratura’ is reissued for the first time on vinyl, alongside his second release ‚Des (Trambelhar) Ou Não‘. Hailing from the Brazilian North East, Alcides Neves released his debut album a few years after moving to São Paulo, in 1979. The LP’s release coincided with the emergence of the city’s seminal Vanguarda Paulista movement, which led so…
Tempo De Fratura
A joint release between Litoral Records and Três Selos in Brazil. One of the first independently released Brazilian records, Alcides Neves’ debut LP ‚Tempo de Fratura’ is reissued for the first time on vinyl, alongside his second release ‚Des (Trambelhar) Ou Não‘. Hailing from the Brazilian North East, Alcides Neves released his debut album a few years after moving to São Paulo, in 1979. The LP’s release coincided with the emergence of the city’s seminal Vanguarda Paulista movement, which led so…
Passarinho Urbano
In 1975, Joyce Moreno, who had just wrapped up a tour with legendary Brazilian composer Vinicius de Moraes, found herself in a studio with producer Sergio Bardotti in Rome, Italy. She had been taking a break from writing and she decided to pick up a selection of her favorite compositions from contemporary Brazilian writers who‘s songs were beacons of hope in times of an ongoing intense Military leadership in her home country. Unlike their previous albums, these recordings live from their reducti…
Mensagem
One of the greatest musicians in the history of Brazilian music. Conductor, composer, arranger, band leader and, without a doubt, one of Brazil's most brilliant sax and flute players. In 1968, Paulo Moura brought together a notable group from the country's jazz and instrumental music to record the album Mensagem. He walked between African rhythm and American and European avant-garde, transforming the Brazilian soul. Licensed by Halina Grynberg. LP deluxe edition, 180g vinyl. Features hard cardbo…
Tempo Pra Tudo
Stunning private press album from 1981 by Minas Gerais singer-songwriter Fernando Oly. Fernando Oly is a musician who was part of Lô Borges' band and took part in the recording of the album "Via Láctea" in 1979. He placed one of his compositions among the album's tracks: "Chuva na Montanha," whose original version was also included on “Tempo Pra tudo.”