Tag: Far Out Recordings

  • Fabiano do Nascimento – Mundo Solo – Far Out Recordings

    Fabiano do Nascimento – Mundo Solo – Far Out Recordings

    Fabiano do Nascimento sounds like a musician playing with his heart and soul. On the sleeve, inside and out. The airy enhancements enacted by machines only come as an extension to that original integrity. Adding grace and space to the language of sounds as they fill the room with brushstrokes of emotion, colouring rainbows amid…

  • Freeez – Mariposa/ Alone – Far Out Recordings

    Steeped in a history that’s currently sparking renewed interest in the UK’s take on the integration of Jazz and Funk these two gems from bands furtive early-eighties period set pulses racing. The trademark intensity still rings true as quick-fire drums and sparkling basslines underpin sultry vocals alongside cool, energised keys which all sound so resolutely…

  • José Mauro – A Viagem Das Horas – Far Out Recordings

    Originally recorded in 1970 but not released until six years later this is the sound of history and emotion coming to life. You can hear the hints of melancholy longing in amongst the joyous blasts and twists as horn punctuate and drums sizzle with José Mauro’s guitar strumming to the rhythm of it all charged,…

  • Antonio Neves – Luz Negra (feat. Ana Frango Elétrico) – Far Out Recordings

    Just ahead of next month’s album, A Pegada Agora É Essa comes this retelling of samba standard Luz Negra. It’s a perfectly realised and crafted piece of music which rolls out emotion like waves assaulting the shoreline of your imagination. Succinct yet resolutely transforming the historical spirit of the original into something which is altogether…

  • Daniel Maunick – Musica Encantada EP – Far Out Recordings

    I guess the singular thread spun throughout each of these productions is that of life assuring, soulful intensity. That, plus the heavy-duty amount of funk ingrained into each of the four numbers. Excitement drips from every pour of Daniel Maunick’s, Hurt Feelings as the rush of energised percussion plus deep bass start this new EP…

  • Daniel Maunick – A Vicious Circle – Far Out Recordings

    Sometimes certain types of music sound like your life is playing on a revolving loop of one musical idea. But in this case Daniel Maunick takes the process of reworking the past over sizzling hi-hats and drums, and points it in the direction of enviable joy. This release has been limited to a run of…

  • Eumir Deodato / Os Cadetraticos – Ataque – Far Out Recordings

    I don’t profess any extensive knowledge when it comes to Brazilian music but I know what I love when I hear it. And there’s something uniquely timely about this exhilarating instrumentation which was first created at the peak of the mid-sixties when Eumir Deodato and team explored the fiery sounds of strident horns, sassy percussion…

  • Amaro Freitas – Mantra – Far Out Recordings

    It takes everything to play piano like this. Amaro Freitas’ strikes the notes as if his life depended on it and that wild sense of abandon comes crashing throughout the arrangement, like you’re lost in a chaotic film noir searching for answers. The accompying drums and bass only heighten the tension colouring the drama with…

  • Ad Bourke & ROTLA – RAW – Far Out Recordings

    Since when was music not meant to be challenging? It is also most important to note new life being breathed into sounds like these, refreshing them for the next generation. Ron Trent turns Ad Bourke & ROTLA’s brilliantly, fiery production upside down infusing it with all manner of excitable punctuation, exalting the very finest Jazz-Funk…