Ed Motta - E-collection - Sucessos + Raridades '1990 / 2006

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc 1 
1. Sólução (04:08)
2. Vamos Dançar (03:46)
3. Contrato Com Deus (03:27)
4. Manuel (03:50)
5. Baixo Rio (03:19)
6. A Rua (03:58)
7. Seis da Tarde (03:59)
8. Goodnight Irene (00:35)
9. Entre e Ouça (04:48)
10. Um Love (03:02)
11. Parada de Lucas (03:17)
12. Body (04:22)
13. Lady (03:19)
14. Já!!! (03:47)

Disc 2  
1. Baixo Rio (Ao Vivo) (04:26)
2. Parada de Lucas (05:29)
3. Manuel (06:52)
4. Know How (03:46)
5. Rub U'Dub Styley (00:33)
6. Ed's Blues (00:56)
7. Party Everywhere (00:42)
8. What Would You Like? (00:34)
9. Bye-Bye Bird (01:23)
10. Ed's Reggae (00:32)
11. Ed's Groove (00:41)
12. Pot-pourri: Goodnight Irene / Manuel / Brick House / You and I / Ladies
Night / Sólução (18:51)
13. Bem Longe (04:16)


 moreMotta was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1971. From an early age he listened
to disco, soul, and funk on the radio, later leaning toward rock. He began
playing piano almost as soon as he could walk. A few years later he participated
in dance contests with his older sister, became a record collector, and
discovered rock music in 1982. Dedicating considerable time to research, he
began collecting recordings (his now legendary collection includes tens of
thousands of albums), magazines, encyclopedias, and books on rock. His musical
career started with the hard rock band Kabbalah as a vocalist. After hearing
Jeff Beck's fusion classic Blow by Blow, however, he was blown away by its
intersection of raucous hard rock, funk, soul, and electric jazz. Motta
abandoned his studies and dedicated himself to making music. He became a club DJ
and published the music fanzine Curto Circuito. A couple of years later, at 17,
he met guitarist Luiz Fernando Comprido and formed Conexão Japer. They played
jams in rehearsal studios, and founded Conexão Japeri, which was first called
Expresso Realengo. In 1988, the group was signed by Warner and released Ed Motta
e Conexão Japeri, which had two hits: "Manuel" and "Vamos Dançar." In
1990, Motta began a solo career, recording Um Contrato com Deus (influenced by
Prince's Sign 'O' the Times), and played all the instruments with friend and
former bandmate Bombom. His third album, Entre e Ouça was released in 1992
and paid aesthetic homage to the pop-jazz of Steely Dan.

During the mid-'90s, he traveled to New York to record with Eddie Gomez, Bernard
Purdie, and Chuck Rainey, and stayed there for one year. During that period, he
wrote "Crescente Fértil," whose lyrics were penned by Aldir Blanc and
recorded it for his own 50 Anos.

Returning to Brazil, Motta recorded the Pequeno Dicionário Amoroso film
soundtrack and performed throughout the country and in the U.S., Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Rome, Italy, and Paris, France. With Manual Prático Para Bailes
Festas e Afins (Universal, 1997), Motta received his first platinum record. A
companion set, Remixes & Aperitivos, was certified gold. He also recorded two
award-winning film soundtracks, Ninó and Uma Janela Para o Cinema, then
performed with Roy Ayers at New York's Central Park. In 2000, he presented his
show Músicas Antigas e Algumas Inéditas, in which, backed by a jazz trio,
he performed standards of American and Brazilian music and new compositions and
released the album Músicas Antigas e Algumas Inéditas.

Motta's star rose in the new century beginning with Dwitza in 2002, an album
proclaimed by many Brazilian and European critics as one of the finest melds of
jazz, soul, and Brazilian music ever. It was followed by the equally acclaimed
Poptical a few months later. In 2005, Aystelum showcased a different musical
genre on each track and displayed the expansive variety in Motta's musical
vocabulary; he modestly claimed he came by it via the 30,000-plus LPs in his
record collection. While his 2006 live album Ao Vivo hit the Brazilian charts,
it was 2008's studio effort, Chapter 9, sung completely in English, that
garnered more notice despite its darker overall themes and textures. It was
greeted ecstatically in Brazil, despite being sung in a foreign tongue. Motta
continued to tour nationally and globally, and was particularly well received on
the jazz festival circuit and in Europe and Japan. Savvy critics regarded
Chapter 9 as a masterpiece. Released in 2009, Piquenique was a celebratory
return, not only to Portuguese but to brighter soul, jazz, and pop stylings.

In 2013, Motta released AOR, which reflected his love of early-'70s/ early-'80s
radio format sounds and easily melded jazz, pop, and funk with glossy studio
production. It was released in both Portuguese and English and became an
immediate smash, celebrated globally for its single version of "Dondi,"
featuring former Motown guitarist David T. Walker. Though originally issued in
Brazil and Europe, it received an American release via the Tummy Touch label.

The English-language version broadened Motta's profile to a bigger Anglo
audience. He followed the album with Perpetual Gateways in early 2016. Produced
by Kemau Kenyatta (Gregory Porter), the guest list included an all-star cast of
West Coast musicians (and Motta's idols) including Patrice Rushen, Hubert Laws,
Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Tony Dumas, and Charles Owens. Strangely, the album sold
better in Europe and Asia than in Brazil. 2018's self-produced Criterion of the
Senses perfectly crystalized the smooth, late-'70s jazz-soul-funk-rock sound
he'd been striving for since Dwitza.

Motta toured internationally, but in 2020 was forced off the road due to the
onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. He returned to the recording studio in 2022.
He reemerged in October 2023 with Behind the Tea Chronicles. Its captivating
arrangements and compositions offered an organic-sounding fusion of various
genres. Each showcases a mastery of cinematic soul and groove, while
incorporating elements of funk, soul, jazz, cinema soundtracks, and Broadway
sounds. Movies and old TV shows had a profound impact on Motta's imagination and
musical sensibilities from childhood on. He paid homage to those influences,
employing them as connecting points on an album at once musically engaging and
cinematic. The impressive lineup of singers and players included Paulette
McWilliams, Philip Ingram, and the Czech FILMharmonic Orchestra. 

Biography by Alvaro Neder



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