World Music thread

following because I am sorely lacking in knowledge and collecting of these, I won't have much to offer or probably the time to check all these out but at least I will have a source to refer to
 
Great news! One of my favourite Superfly Records reissue is Brazilian Di Melo's self-titled album, released in 1975. It's an hidden gem lost in the middle of some of the greatest decades of the Brazilian music. Anyway, his first album became a treasure a lot of crate-digger were looking after before it got reissued first by Brasilis Grooves in 2011 and then by Superfly Records in 2013 and Fatiado Discos in 2018. All this talk took Di Melo to release a new album in 2016, O Immorivel, 40 years after his first album!

Well, it happens that I was wasting some time on Instragam and discovered that French label Favorite Recordings just released a new Di Melo album with Cotonete as his backing band. Cotonoete is an all star band with some of the best Jazz, Soul and Funk French musicians (their first album Super Vilains is one of my favorite of 2019). Below is all the story and the Bandcamp link!

Born in 1949 in Recife (Brazil), Roberto De Melo Santos, despite a very light discography, is among the true icons of the Brazilian Soul music under his artist alias, Di Melo. He’s indeed only needed an eponymous album, released in 1975 on Odeon, to assert himself as a star in his native country, but also as a legend for all collectors and connoisseurs of the world. More than 40 years after its release, this famous album sells for several hundred euros in its original version, and even for the few reissues that were offered. Not very active since then, Di Melo however returned in 2016 with the album O Imorrível, released on the Brazilian label Casona Produções.


It is then that a year later, came a meeting with the French group Cotonete, that Florian Pellissier, founding member and keyboard within the band tells us about: “On tour in Brazil with Cotonete, we had a few days off in Sao Paulo and I really hoped to make a collaboration with an important artist or band from the Brazilian funk scene. We had thought of Marcos Valle, Meta Meta or Ed Motta... but Rafaela Prestes our Brazilian "sound ingineer/genious" told me she’d worked with Di Melo for his recent comeback and gave me his number. No sooner said than done, as I'm a huge fan of Di Melo. The next day he arrived at our house with Jo, his wife, and Gabi, his daughter. He takes the guitar in front of us and gives us a private show of 3 hours… we cried the tears of joy. He had 400 original songs never recorded, a gold mine. On the same night, we started working the arrangements for 2 days, followed by a rehearsal and two small gigs in Sao Paulo. Immediately after, we recorded in the magical Epsilon B studio. This album is the summary of this moment, of these 5 days of madness spent together between “the best band in the world” and the legend Roberto Di Melo… Simple, beautiful, Brazilian-French, human music…”


Today, Atemporal found its final version in collaboration with Favorite Recordings and is proudly presented as what we believe will become the genuine long-awaited follow-up to the classic Di Melo’s LP.

favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com

Atemporal, by Cotonete & Di Melo

8 track album
favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com

Enjoy!
 


Took a total chance on this the other day, and really dug it. Perfect summertime music. His later albums and a comp of his early material are on streaming platforms (under “S.E. Rogie”). I didn’t realize until I Googled him at home that one of his songs was sampled for a guitar loop on Father of the Bride. I’ll be looking for more Rogie and more palm-wine style music in the future.

Full LP below.
 
Skalap said:
Great news! One of my favourite Superfly Records reissue is Brazilian Di Melo's self-titled album, released in 1975. It's an hidden gem lost in the middle of some of the greatest decades of the Brazilian music. Anyway, his first album became a treasure a lot of crate-digger were looking after before it got reissued first by Brasilis Grooves in 2011 and then by Superfly Records in 2013 and Fatiado Discos in 2018. All this talk took Di Melo to release a new album in 2016, O Immorivel, 40 years after his first album!

Well, it happens that I was wasting some time on Instragam and discovered that French label Favorite Recordings just released a new Di Melo album with Cotonete as his backing band. Cotonoete is an all star band with some of the best Jazz, Soul and Funk French musicians (their first album Super Vilains is one of my favorite of 2019). Below is all the story and the Bandcamp link!

Born in 1949 in Recife (Brazil), Roberto De Melo Santos, despite a very light discography, is among the true icons of the Brazilian Soul music under his artist alias, Di Melo. He’s indeed only needed an eponymous album, released in 1975 on Odeon, to assert himself as a star in his native country, but also as a legend for all collectors and connoisseurs of the world. More than 40 years after its release, this famous album sells for several hundred euros in its original version, and even for the few reissues that were offered. Not very active since then, Di Melo however returned in 2016 with the album O Imorrível, released on the Brazilian label Casona Produções.


It is then that a year later, came a meeting with the French group Cotonete, that Florian Pellissier, founding member and keyboard within the band tells us about: “On tour in Brazil with Cotonete, we had a few days off in Sao Paulo and I really hoped to make a collaboration with an important artist or band from the Brazilian funk scene. We had thought of Marcos Valle, Meta Meta or Ed Motta... but Rafaela Prestes our Brazilian "sound ingineer/genious" told me she’d worked with Di Melo for his recent comeback and gave me his number. No sooner said than done, as I'm a huge fan of Di Melo. The next day he arrived at our house with Jo, his wife, and Gabi, his daughter. He takes the guitar in front of us and gives us a private show of 3 hours… we cried the tears of joy. He had 400 original songs never recorded, a gold mine. On the same night, we started working the arrangements for 2 days, followed by a rehearsal and two small gigs in Sao Paulo. Immediately after, we recorded in the magical Epsilon B studio. This album is the summary of this moment, of these 5 days of madness spent together between “the best band in the world” and the legend Roberto Di Melo… Simple, beautiful, Brazilian-French, human music…”


Today, Atemporal found its final version in collaboration with Favorite Recordings and is proudly presented as what we believe will become the genuine long-awaited follow-up to the classic Di Melo’s LP.

favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com

Atemporal, by Cotonete & Di Melo

8 track album
favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com

Enjoy!
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Just adding on from @Skalap's post, Cotonete & Di Melo is available at Sound of the Universe now Cotonete & Di Melo - Atemporal
 
This is one of my favourite albums of "world" music, and also one of my first introductions to non-North American or European music. I heard the song "Yaniparaway Takiriyta" on the classic music blog Said the Gramophone when I was living in South Korea in 2014, and it became my song of the summer that year. So intensely groovy and--not knowing what the lyrics are--joyous? I love it so much. You might be turned off by the vocals, but try to make it through that song, anyway.

Fun fact, Luzmila Carpio was the Bolivian ambassador to France from 2006 to 2010.

 
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