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Marcos Valle — Crickets Sing For Anamaria

Name: Crickets Sing For Anamaria
Description: Marcos Valle was twenty-three years old when he made this album. The title was meant as a provocation — samba in 1968 was supposed to be acoustic and traditional, not electrified and American-influenced. Valle brought in electric bass, drums, and funky rhythm guitar and showed that samba and soul were speaking the same language across the Atlantic.

Samba 68 · 1968

Label: Odeon · Genre: Soul / Soul Samba · Country: Brazil · From: Rio de Janeiro, South America

Marcos Valle was twenty-three years old when he made this album. The title was meant as a provocation — samba in 1968 was supposed to be acoustic and traditional, not electrified and American-influenced. Valle brought in electric bass, drums, and funky rhythm guitar and showed that samba and soul were speaking the same language across the Atlantic.

Did you know: Valle spent years in Los Angeles in the 1970s recording for A&M and working as a session musician. His Brazilian identity was considered a liability in the US market. He returned to Brazil and found that the records he'd made there in the 60s had become cult objects.

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