СОЮЗ / SOYUZ - Krok (Mr. Bongo)[Cinematic Jazz]
- The Slow Music Movement
- 1 day ago
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*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's November 26th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***
After autumn put up a game fight the weather is now pretty crap in the north of Portugal and winter is wrapping its wet, windy and chilly grip around the Minho region. I’m switching on the dehumidifier (honestly you need one up here) and heating, but a bit of Brazilian or Brazilian inspired music is always a good winter warmer, even though, probably for their own safety and sanity, СОЮЗ / SOYUZ happen to be Belarusians now living in Poland,
Calling this album Brazilian actually is something of a misnomer. Gone is the overt homage and piggy bagging on the vintage sounds of Brazil from their previous releases, even though the skeleton of the album was recorded in Sao Paolo with Sessa (more of him in the next tip), but the soft edged nature of the songs and the gentle bossa style vocals, this time in Belarusian rather than Russian, are constantly evocative of that most musical of countries.
Despite the lack of tell tale instruments and lyrics, the outfit instead wind their way through buttery soul, vintage library music, smooth orchestral jazz and general twentieth century musical lushness. One for the nostalgics and easy listening massive, not to mention another fine addition to the already might fine Mr. Bongo catalogue.
Playlist Companion
Find СОЮЗ / SOYUZ in the Slow World Playlist.