Boca Do Rio - Boca Do Rio - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2016 debut album from the YouTube sensation and singer/songwriter, musician, and record producer. He gained popularity virally by posting his work to YouTube - ultimately becoming widely known for writing and performing the song InchSee You AgainInch, a collaboration with fellow rapper Wiz Khalifa, which topped the charts in 26 countries. His debut single, InchMarvin GayeInch featuring Meghan Trainor, topped the charts in New Zealand, Ireland, and the United Kingdom; peaked at #4 in Australia; and hit the top 25 in the United States.

Having made her operatic debut at the age of 16, singing Barbarina with the Dutch National Opera, Channa Malkin has since made solo appearances with Mariss Jansons and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as early-music luminaries such as Andrew Parrott and Joshua Rifkin. For her first recording, she has chosen to explore her Jewish heritage with songs from her childhood 'Underneath the seemingly simple melodies telling life's usual stories,' she writes in the album's introductory notes, 'I felt the longing of generation upon generation for a homeland left long ago but never forgotten.' Channa Malkin is joined here by her regular duet partner, the guitarist Izhar Elias, who is well known to collectors of Brilliant Classics recordings for his imaginative choice of repertoire and vivid performances. Gramophone lavished praise on his 'sympathetic accompaniment' to Erik Bosgraaf in their recording of the lute book by Jakob van Eyck (BC93391) 'As a reference work this set should be considered indispensable; as one to be dipped in for pleasure, highly desirable.' The selection of Sephardic songs they have made ranges between subjects of love, war, birth and death epic tales sung by medieval Spanish bards, Jewish liturgical melodies and texts, and Arabic styles of melodic ornamentation. Malkin and Elias have made their own arrangements, letting the music guide them intuitively and drawing inspiration from their backgrounds in early music, Jewish cantorial singing and Spanish folk song interpretation, as well as their personal family histories. Their selection also includes several Sephardic songs arranged by contemporary composers, in order to explore the ways in which this music can be performed as classical art song. Israeli composer, guitarist and Sephardic song expert Daniel Akiva, Spanish composer and conductor Lorenzo Palomo and Joaquín Rodrigo each offer a uni

Digitally remastered reissue. Banda Black Rio's Maria Fumaca is one of the strongest Brazilian samba-disco-funk-soul-fusion albums of all time. Banda Black Rio was formed in 1976 by the late Oberdan Magalhães in Rio de Janeiro. They revolutionized 'black instrumental music' at the time with their Brazilian re-interpretation of soul, jazz, funk and disco grooves, inspired by the likes of Tim Maia and reminiscent of Kool & The Gang and Earth Wind & Fire during their most on-point period of the 1970's. Maria Fumaca is the group’s first album, originally released by Atlantic in 1977; a record that bought the group worldwide fame. The title track is a real stand-out for us and a long term firm favorite. 'Miss Cheryll', more of a disco/ AOR jam, was released by RCA UK in 1980 as the track become popular within several London scenes. Maria Fumaca features in a list of the 100 greatest Brazilian albums of all time published by Rolling Stone Brazil, coming in at #38.