lockdown : vinyl find #53.

This is lockdown #2. Although it doesn't feel the same as the volume 1. But still, it contributes to the shitty year that is 2020. 

Under these circumstances, one of the best remedies to the soul must be Brazilian music. It provides the warmth in winter, the sun in the short days, the emotion in the gloomy times. So, besides the classics of Brazilian music (bossa nova, MPB...), I often go back to a cheap record I thought I had found in Toulouse but... no. I found it in Strasbourg, France in 2016, at an excellent shop called "L'Occase de l'Oncle Tom". 

This fantastic compilation is called "Brazilian Wave" and it costed me 4€. On two records, all the stars of Brazilian music are reunited : Astrud Gilberto, Marcos Valle, Luiz Bonfa, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim... Ok, a few are missing, like Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa... But still, it flows naturally, from one track to the next one, without the need of skipping any track, with a pleasant balance between instrumental tracks and vocal ones, calm songs and more danceable ones.  

Imagine a movie scene, a sunset on Copacabana, girls and boys playing football on the beach, pretty women licking ice creams... this compilation is the soundtrack to that. 

Various Artists - Brazilian Wave.

For your listening pleasures, a few contributions by Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd, Marcos Valle, Bola Sete...