Brazilian music legend SERGIO MENDES is all set to launch a model new album….. ‘In The Key Of Pleasure’. The brand new assortment is Mendes’ first in 5 years and it has been timed to tie in with a brand new documentary film (of the identical identify). The movie chronicles Mendes’ ground-breaking life and profession and has been put collectively by acclaimed filmmaker John Scheinfeld. It was previewed to acclaim on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant and can go on basic launch this Spring.
The ‘In The Key Of Pleasure’ album shall be obtainable from February 28th and visitors on the album embody rapper Widespread, Hermeto Pascoal, Joe Pizzulo, Cali y El Dandee, Buddy, Sugar Joans, João Donato, Sheléa and Mendes’ spouse and long-time singer of selection, Gracinha Leporace. Between them they combine a joyous, optimistic cocktail that melds traditional Brazilian music and moods with up to date soul, jazz and pop sounds and flavours…. precisely the identical recipe Sergio used again within the heady days of Brazil ’66 and has used ever since!
That intoxicating sound is upfront from the beginning with ‘Sabor Do Rio’ which options rhyming from Widespread. There’s extra difficult rapping on the album title monitor; this time courtesy of Buddy (an up-and-coming Compton rapper and Robert Glasper collaborator). ‘Catch The Wave’, ‘Romance In Copacabana’ and ‘Samba In Heaven’ are perhaps a wee bit extra “conventional” whereas the massive ballad second is ‘Love Got here Between Us’ which options vocals from Joe Pizzulo, who took lead on one among Mendes’ earlier greatest hits, ‘By no means Gonna Let You Go’.
That very music is without doubt one of the many highlights on Disc 2 of the de luxe version of ‘In The Key Of Pleasure’. This disc provides a 16 monitor retrospective of the easiest of Mendes’ again catalogue and , after all, options issues like ‘Mas Que Nada’ ( which, do you know, means a sarcastic “yeah proper!”), ‘Pais Tropical’, ‘Fixed Rain’, the Will. I. Am collaborative model of ‘Agua De Beber’ and definitive straightforward listening variations of ‘Going Out Of My Head’ and ‘The Look Of Love’?