Arthur Verocai - Encore (2025 Repress) *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 7th March 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Remastered from the original tapes, Encore features 11 original compositions

from Arthur with guest musicians including Azymuth, Ivan Lins and a nine-
piece string section - The highly anticipated follow up to Arthur's eponymous

debut album from 1972, Encore saw Arthur joining the dots over 35 years to
create a modern classic of Brazilian music that, like his debut, combined
Brazilian infuences with his take on American soul and cinematic
experimentation, and shows Arthur's sound is as poignant now as it ever was
In the mid-2000's, following on from Marcos Valle, Joyce and of course Azymuth,
Arthur Verocai joined the long- line of Brazilian musicians whose music was to be
introduced to a whole new legion of fans by Far Out. The story of 'Encore' of course
begins with Joe Davis, Far Out's head honcho who stumbled upon Arthur's debut in a
dusty record store in downtown Rio in the late 80s. At the time of its release in 1972
critics panned Arthur's debut and both the album and artist subsequently vanished
into obscurity. Fast forward to winter 2004 and Joe's at the studio of Far Out
Recording artists Harmonic 313 - aka production duo Mark 'Troubleman' Pritchard and
Dave Brinkworth - playing them some of his favourite Brazilian albums. Dave recalls
the moment Joe put on Arthur's debut, "As soon as the needle hit the record and we
heard the fantastic arrangements, songs and sounds, Arthur completely blew our
minds".
Three months later and Dave was in Brazil with Arthur Verocai, and the plans for what
was to become 'Encore' were being laid down. Produced by Dave, 'Encore' sees Arthur
on incredible form, the 35 plus years between the recording of his debut and this the
follow-up just melting away as Arthur picked up the (conductor's) baton once again to
create 11 epic tracks of stirring samba-soul and experimental cinematic movements
that sees him creating a record to rival his debut.
Born in Rio de Janeiro on 17 June 1945, Arthur Verocai began his professional music
career in 1969 and over the next few years he was responsible for the orchestration of
albums by Ivan Lins, Jorge Benjor, Elizeth Cardoso, Gal Costa, Quarteto em Cy, MPB 4
and Marcos Valle, among others. In the 1970s he was hired by Brazil's biggest TV
station, TV Globo, as musical director and wrote the arrangements for many of the
stations biggest shows. In 1972, following the success Arthur had with the production
of Ivan Lins 1971 album "Agora", Arthur recorded his self- titled debut album on
Continental Records. 'Arthur Verocai' challenged the musical conventions of the day,
combining Brazilian infuences with folksy soul and lo-f electronic experimentations
of American artists like Shuggie Otis or the orchestration of producer Charles
Stepney.

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