{"product_id":"viralata","title":"Viralata","description":"\u003cp\u003eFar Out Recordings are honoured to be working with master composer, arranger and pianist, \u003cstrong\u003eAntonio Adolfo\u003c\/strong\u003e for the first time since releasing his \u003cem\u003eDestiny\u003c\/em\u003e album in 2007. This time they present the first ever vinyl reissue of his era-defining \u003cem\u003eViralata\u003c\/em\u003e LP: An essential album from Brazil’s majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eViralata\u003c\/em\u003e is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music, which \u003cstrong\u003eAntonio\u003c\/strong\u003e himself describes as ‘a product of my hybrid musical influences that joins together flavours of marchinhas de carnaval, frevo, toada, classical, MPB and jazz, etc’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album’s first track \"Cascavel\" is the emotionally charged, celebratory dance anthem, which became a London jazz-dance classic in the early ‘90s after Far Out label boss Joe Davis discovered a handful of copies in a second hand shop in Sao Paulo and brought them back to London to sell to DJs like Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge. In recent years the track has been played out by the likes of Floating Points, Mr Scruff and Andrew Ashong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eViralata\u003c\/em\u003e sits comfortably on the same pedestal as \u003cem\u003eAzymuth’s Light As A Feather\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJoao Donato’s Quem Quem\u003c\/em\u003e, which is no co-incidence. All three keystone LPs were recorded and engineered by Toniniho, considered by many to be “the Brazilian Rudy Van Gelder” whose magic touches in the studio also helped to produce \u003cem\u003eMarcos Valle’s Previs o Do Tempo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJoyce’s Água E Luz\u003c\/em\u003e among many other holy grails and unassailable classics of soulful Brazilian music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntonio’s\u003c\/strong\u003e work has been widely performed by his legendary Brazilian contemporaries including \u003cstrong\u003eSergio Mendes\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eEmilio Santiago\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eErasmo Carlos\u003c\/strong\u003e, but also by platinum-selling American icons including \u003cstrong\u003eStevie Wonder\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eHerb Alpert\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDionne Warwick\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing an early 70s spell of studying jazz in the USA, \u003cem\u003eViralata’s\u003c\/em\u003e release in 1979 arrived at the height of a flourishing period of \u003cstrong\u003eAntonio’s\u003c\/strong\u003e career. With his late 60s and 70s output following through on his influences of tropicalia, funk, MPB and easy listening, the almost entirely instrumental \u003cem\u003eViralata\u003c\/em\u003e marked an apex for Brazilian jazz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far Out Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50490353451339,"sku":"1015366","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9aaca203-e3e6-4f35-8f6e-31e914753a25_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727659448","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/viralata","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}