Bad news guys, It’s my turn again!
This is a compilation album of Elenco Records offerings and I can imagine that it will provoke some interesting comments
Elenco was formed on a shoestring budget in 1963 by ex. Philips Records representative and bossa nova aficionado - Aloysio de Oliveira. By the time he sold Elenco in 1968 bossa nova had become the soundtrack to Brazilian life.
A quote from The Economist review can describe this much more eloquently than I…
The collection runs hot to cold, ardent red to lonesome blue—it soothes and abrades. The variations are so numerous that a dozen songs in, the word “genre” begins to ring false. More accurately, bossa nova was a musical frame through which local musicians and poets viewed the rapid modernisation of Brazil.
I can only comment on the Vinyl version, but the recordings vary in quality, although some of them are astonishingly good and none of them really bad.
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Enjoy
or not
I don’t do digital, but someone may be able to post a link to this on Spotty-fi or somesuch clever site