![]() ![]() In this collector's compilation, you're coming on a kind of expert guided time travel mission - just picture yourself following Ed's fingers as they trace along the sleeves in his massive library-sized vinyl vault. He is a refined practitioner of jazz, funk, soul, AOR, and much else besides, having worked with everyone from Gilles Peterson to Roy Ayers, 4Hero, Seu Jorge, Patrice Rushen, Greg Phillinganes, Bo Diddley, Incognito, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and many other insanely talented musos. He's now fifteen albums into a career that hops from genre to genre, perhaps one of the savviest music makers and curators out there. ![]() At the end of the 1980s, Ed Motta burst upon the music scene as a major singer and one of the writers and producers in the band Conexão Japeri. The compiler of this Too Slow to Disco release, a giant of musical endeavor, is the young nephew of Brazil's legendary soul icon Tim Maia, the "Colossus of Rio", as he's known: Ed Motta. Too Slow to Disco take a dive into an often-overlooked side of Brazilian music: Brazilian soul, funk and AOR.
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