Maria Fumaça (Vinyl LP) Jazz

Maria Fumaça (Vinyl LP) JazzBanda Black Rio's 'Maria Fumaca' is one of the strongest Brazilian samba disco funk soul fusion albums of all time. As regularly played by Theo Parrish, Gilles Peterson and co. 'Maria Fumaca' is the groups first album, originally released by Atlantic in 1977; a record that bought the group worldwide fame. This album features in a list of the 100 greatest Brazilian albums of all time published by Rolling Stone Brazil, coming in at number 38.

Over the next few years a comprehensive reissue campaign is planned for all formats

Despite a string of late 1960s Saturn LP pressings of recordings made in Chicago from 1956 to 1961

It's a debut for the record books - a refreshing marvel of songwriting and technical composition

Daniel Lanois and Bert van de Kamp and unseen photos

replicating original album CD package notes

Astro Tough via Heavenly Recordings

The title surfaced in Obel's mind while touring Aventine and

exploring themes of lust

Includes one unreleased track

remixed in original running sequence by Boy Harsher

it still sounds like the work of a man with his mind plugged into the age of lysergic enchantment

which is the closest thing to what you could call a 'feelgood' Editors track