Waldir Calmon
Airport Love Them / Afro Som
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Release
7inch
SKU : BRZ45085NB
Description
keep a look out for a copy on your next digging trip to Brazil. Add on top of that,
being sampled by Madlib on the track 'Curls’ on his Madvillain album!
Taken from Waldir Calmon's 'Waldir Calmon E Seus Multisons' album
on Copacabana (1970), from looking at this unassuming record cover featuring a
middle-aged man sporting an impressive pair of glasses you wouldn't expect it to
become the fabric to one of the songs from the iconic 'Madvillain’ album. But… like
many things in life, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. 'Airport Love Theme’,
like its name suggests, falls into full-on lounge territory. It is feel-good music made to
be the soundtrack for a utopian world that never really was. Yet behind the silky-
smooth groove is an addictive earworm waiting to be heard.
'Afro Som' taken from the same album, pushes things in a different direction towards
a sound that is more firmly rooted in the Brazilian tradition. This quirky 60's-
breakbeat-funk groove is reminiscent of French artist Jean Jacques Perrey's
'E.V.A.', also from 1970, in its melody and backbeat, where the Moog synthesizer of
Perrey is replaced with a more orchestrated sound by Calmon. This track is magical,
cinematic and breakbeat-laden with a hidden unknown exoticism.
Waldir Calmon had an active career in music working from the '50s right up until his
passing in 1982. His career started early, forming his first ensemble at the age of
fourteen, originally working in bands in nightclubs and writing jingles. He progressed
in the early '50s to a long-running career working in television. In addition to his
television work, he had success with his recording vocation, mixing in the same
musical circles as greats such as Tom Jobi, João Gilberto and Doris Monteiro.
Tracklist
A. Airport Love Theme
B. Afro Som
B. Afro Som
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