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Manfredo Fest - Brazilian Dorian Dream '2020

Brazilian Dorian Dream
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Album name Brazilian Dorian Dream
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Date 2020
GenreWorld; Brazilian Music; Samba jazz
Play time 39:27
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 98; 251 MB
PriceDownload $2.95
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Legally blind from birth, Brazilian keyboard player, composer and bandleader
Manfredo Fest learnt to read music in braille and began studying classical music
at a young age. By 17 he had fallen in love with jazz (particularly the music of
fellow blind pianist George Shearing) before becoming swept up in Rio’s
emergent bossa nova movement in the sixties.

Moving to the States in 1967 where he would go on to work with fellow countryman
Sergio Mendes, Fest recorded and self-released Brazilian Dorian Dream in 1976,
enlisting Thomas Kini (bass), Alejo Poveda (drums, percussion) and Roberta Davis
(vocals). Like a turbo-powered, intergalactic elevator ride, Brazilian Dorian
Dream builds on the principle of the modal diatonic scales of the Dorian mode,
with influences of Brazilian rhythms, North American jazz and funk, and music of
the European baroque and romantic era. The coming together of these
intergenerational and intercontinental styles coupled with Fest’s
visionary use of the Fender Rhodes, Clavinet, Arp and Moog synthesizers (plus a
whole load of effects units), makes for an album light years ahead of its time.

The miraculous wordless vocals of American jazz singer Roberta Davis are nailed
so tightly alongside Manfredo’s keys and mind-bending synths that it
sounds almost alien. On the album’s liner notes, Fest preaches
Davis’ ability highlighting how hard it is to sing such precise intervals
so accurately. One of the tracks on which the vocals shine brightest is space
funk stepper Jungle Cat, which features hard funky drums, freaky synth lines and
expert Rhodes comping. The track builds up and up before releasing into the
unmistakable scat melody in the chorus. A few years after releasing Brazilian
Dorian Dream, Fest recorded and released his Manifestations album in 1979,
featuring Jungle Kitten: a new dancefloor focused variation on Jungle Cat. At
around 140 BPM ‘Jungle Kitten’ was possibly deemed too fast for
statside dance floors, which explains why it never got a US 12” release.
But the track became something of an underground hit at jazz dance clubs and
all-dayers across the UK in the 80s and as a result it has probably become
Fest’s most well-known track since.

Manfredo passed away in Florida in 1999, and his music never quite reached the
audiences it deserved. Due to the independent nature and limited run of the
original release, Brazilian Dorian Dream has to this day remained almost
impossible to find on vinyl. Far Out Recordings is proud to make this
masterpiece available to new audiences with a remastered vinyl and CD.

Tracklist: 
01. Manfredo Fest - Brazilian Dorian Dream
02. Manfredo Fest - Facing East
03. Manfredo Fest - Jungle Cat
04. Manfredo Fest - Thats What She Says
05. Manfredo Fest - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
06. Manfredo Fest - Who Needs It
07. Manfredo Fest - Braziliana Nº 1

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