In English dance clubs Viva Brasil has been on the inside track for a long time. DJ's especially love to spin the classic "Skindo-le-le", the opening song of the self-titled album VIVA BRASIL. Until today, Viva Brasil was nearly impossible to find in even the most specialized of record shops, save for bootlegs or limited editions that only collectors have been able to enjoy.The year was 1980. The place San Francisco. After several years gigging up and down the California West Coast, a group of Brasilians who migrated to the Golden State goes into a recording studio simply to record their band repertoire. The band's name is Viva Brasil and as it goes, so is the title of the record from that session: VIVA BRASIL.Back in Brasil, bandleader and songwriter Claudio Amaral had already been pursuing his musical ambitions in several bands. After a visit to the San Francisco Bay Area in the "Post-Hippie" seventies, he remained in the city and made his living as a street musician. Not long after, he performed in cafes and got booked to play small venues throughout the city. His one-man Brasilian show began to take the form of a real band, as other musicians often came by to sit in.Claudio's natural songwriting talents magically attracted the funk, soul and hippie rock-schooled musicians of San Francisco’s late seventies era. Soon, a core of Brasilian and Californian players emerged, whose love for Brasilian music, together with the musical influences of the Bay Area, is what created the unique sound and charm of Viva Brasil's first album.
VIVA BRASIL
-Viva Brasil
In British
dance clubs Viva Brasil has been on the inside track for a long time.
DJ's especially love to spin the classic "Skindo-le-le", the
opening song of the self-titled album VIVA BRASIL. Until today, Viva Brasil
was nearly impossible to find in even the most specialized of record shops,
save for bootlegs or limited editions that only collectors have been able
to enjoy.( more info... )
VIVA BRASIL
-Lost & Found
These previously unreleased recordings from the time of Skindo-le-le consist of a Studio session from 1983. Meant to be the follow up release to the self titled debut album "Viva Brasil", the album was never completed, but the spirit of the band's heyday is very apparent on these recordings. The CD also includes a live concert from the same year.( more info... )
VIVA BRASIL
-Festa
Twelve years
after their legendary debut VIVA BRASIL, new
members from the Flora Purim-Airto circle had joined singer/songwriter
Claudio Amaral -- notably Marcos Silva, a masterful Brasilian keyboardist
whose own successful solo albums with his band Intersection for the Concord
Jazz Label most evidently influenced the new and well honed Brazilian
jazz sound of Viva Brasil's 90's recording Festa.( more info... )
VIVA BRASIL
-Messages