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Cosmic Drops

by AZAR AZAR

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" Black Vinyl
    Includes a postcard and a sticker
    200 Copies
    Mixed by Sérgio Alves
    Dreaming Waves Mixed by New Max
    Mastered by Reel Mastering Studio London
    Design by Ricardo Leite
    Pressed at Grama
    Distributed by Pusher Distribution

    Includes unlimited streaming of Cosmic Drops via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    12" Golden Yellow Vinyl
    Includes a postcard and a sticker
    100 Copies
    Mixed by Sérgio Alves
    Dreaming Waves Mixed by New Max
    Mastered by Reel Mastering Studio London
    Design by Ricardo Leite
    Pressed at Grama
    Distributed by Pusher Distribution

    Includes unlimited streaming of Cosmic Drops via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 100 

      €27 EUR or more 

     

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Here’s to life
 Running by the waves As they bend Throw down for your love Right on to receive With your friends Oh, what you are to me The heart of me I can defend Atand by the future Again Here’s to life 
Here’s to everyone Choosing love to mend Running by the waves As they bend Say how you are 
 How you know
 When the daylight calls us We’ll go… Here’s to life
 Running by the waves As they bend Throw down for your love Right on to receive With your friends With your friends
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B6 - Subway 03:02
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about

A surrealistic space travel, around sounds, and colours… A melancholic journey through different music places, where you can just seat back and chill, watching the autumn leaves falling from the trees… where you can dance like nobody's watching, to a drum’n’bass beat and imagine that you are at a Bristol dark club in the late 90’s, or at an afrobeat party in Lagos… or just drinking a caipirinha with Carmen Miranda… all this in less than 45 minutes, it’s cheaper than flying with a low cost airline company, and better for the environment...


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I met Sérgio Alves when he was playing with the Groovelvets. I
immediately felt I was dealing with a special musician. It wasn’t
easy to find a keyboard player that could embody the diferent
expressions of African- American music, and its characteristic
groove in Portugal among the musicians of my generation.

Even though I had been A&R for over twenty years, I just came
across with the special João Gomes, and little else. Sharing the
love for the African- American sounds, straightened our
relationship, and I had the privilege of having all the keyboards
on my mini-LP Bonfim, played by Sérgio. I was also able to see the
development of the initial demos, the raw material that was in the
origin of Azar Azar, the musical adventure in which, for the first
time, he fully exposes his artistic personality.

He debuted the project with an E.P., on the brand new and
admirable Jazzego, in 2020.
Although only two of the five songs, that make up the EP, are
original work (the remaining three are remixes by K15, Minus +
MRDolly and Esa), the record was a beautiful calling card, but it
hadn't prepared me for the piece of work that was
about to come to my hands.

Like other musicians of his generation, Sérgio Alves grew up in the
midst of the development of Hip Hop, House, Techno, Broken Beat
and many other expressions of the most modern dance music. He
even has 20 years of a consistent career as a Dj. And that seems
to have contributed to the way he consolidates his musical
personality, allowing him to control an immensity of musical
impulses.

It is true that his compositions are settled in Jazz Funk, but,
throughout the eight tracks of his debut LP, we can feel the
inspiration of huge figures such as Roy Ayers, George Duke or
Donald Byrd that are intersected by the presence of a
kaleidoscopic variety of genres that have filled dance floors, from
Detroit to New York or London, in such a way that allows the
creation of piece of music that can be seen as autonomous,
intense, stimulating, personalized and relevant in any place of the
planet.

In this year of 2023.

Pedro Tenreiro
17th Jan 2023

credits

released March 10, 2023

A1. Space Gazing

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass - Bruno Macedo;
Drums - Ricardo Danin;
Flute - João Samuel;
Percussion - Manu Idhra;
Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;
Trumpet - Gileno Santana.


A2. Miles Backyard

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass - Pedro Ferreira;
Drums - Ricardo Danin;
Flute - João Samuel;
Percussion - Manu Idhra;
Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;
Trumpet - Gileno Santana.


A3. Dreaming Waves

Music - Azar Azar;
Lyrics - Beth Hirsch;
Bass - Bruno Macedo;
Drums - Ricardo Danin;
Flute - João Samuel;
Percussion - Manu Idhra;
Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;
Trombone - João Sêco;
Trumpet - João Sousa;
Vocals - Beth Hirsch.


A4. Instant Star

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass & Keys - Sérgio Alves.


B5. Golden Wonderland

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass - Bruno Macedo;
Drums - Ricardo Danin;
Percussion - Manu Idhra;
Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;
Trumpet - Gileno Santana;
Vibraphone - Eduardo Cardinho.


B6. Subway

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass, Drums, Keys & Samples - Sérgio Alves;
Saxophone Tenor - João Samuel.


B7. Moving in Outer Space

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass - Bruno Macedo;
Drums - Ricardo Danin;
Percussion - Manu Idhra;
Saxophone Tenor & Baritone - João Samuel
Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;
Trombone - João Sêco
Trumpet - João Sousa


B8. Sunlight

Music - Azar Azar;
Bass - Bruno Macedo;
Drums - Ricardo Danin;
Percussion - Manu Idhra;
Saxophone Tenor - João Samuel.
Keys, Sampling & Vocals- Sérgio Alves;





Mixing - Sérgio Alves
Dreaming Waves Mixed by New Max
Mastering - Reel Mastering Studio
Design - Ricardo Leite

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AZAR AZAR Porto, Portugal

Keyboard Player/ Music Producer/ Composer/ Sound Designer/ DJ
based in Porto.

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