Abandonu is a low-slung, slapped-bass relative of Afro / Cosmic hit, Mentira. Flutes, guitars, keys, percussion, reeds, and strings. Albums like this one don`t get made too often these days. All of it played to analogue tape – none of it sampled- it was a labour of love on Joe`s part, and must have cost a fortune. Joe persuading Marcos back into the studio for Nova Bossa Nova, which, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, Far Out are reissuing late September. Until meeting Far Out`s Joe Davis in 1996. But, disillusioned, he didn’t record again. Marcos continued to perform and write, notably for global chart-topping Ricky Martin. Then two years later he found himself without a label, when Som Livre “sacked” its entire roster, to focus on music for ads and TV. Marketed as an aerobics track – despite an LP cover depicting “playboy” Marcos lining up a table of colourful cocktails – it sold 90, 000 copies. Returning to Rio in 1982, he released Estrelar. Pulling in cameos by friends, Airto and Flora Purim, for the sublime Somewhere. Collaborating on the timeless Rare Groove of Rockin` You Eternally. Hooking up with Leon Ware, for the latter`s two early `80s albums for Elektra. Marcos eventually fled Brazil`s military dictatorship, in the mid-70s. The trio forming Azymuth, once the set was a wrap. His own 1973 LP, Previsão Do Tempo, featured backing by Alex Malheiros, Ivan Conti, and José Roberto Bertrami. He produced Joao Donato`s classic, Quem É Quem, and arranged and provided Fender Rhodes for Airto Moreira`s Touching You….Touching Me. Marcos played with the legendary Antonio Carlos Jobim. Milton Banana, Celia, Claudia, Deodato, Evinha, Tim Maia, Elis Regina, Sandra Sa, Emilio Santiago, Wilson Simonal, and Elza Soares, are just the names that I recognise from the endless list of their countrymen and women who queued up to record the brothers` compositions. As a result, Verve brought in the young Valles, as arrangers, session-players and composers.
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