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Samba Esquema Novo (Clear vinyl)

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:00:00 +0000

First released in 1963 on Phillips Records, this was Jorge Ben’s debut album. “Samba Esquema Novo”, which translates to ‘New Style Samba’ deliberately sets a new standard in Brazilian music. A beautiful, fresh and vital combination of Ben’s percussive guitar and smooth/rough voice backed by Big Band style horns, percussion (the great Dom Um Romao) and strings. In 2007, it was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history, but It would be enough to remind you that this is the album containing the first original version of “Mas Que Nada’ one of the most popular songs in the world!

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Negro è Lindo (45 rpm)

GuerssenAdmin — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Negro É Lindo is the eighth album by Brazilian artist Jorge Ben, released in 1971. The title is a translation of the slogan “Black is beautiful” to Portuguese. The album has a song called “Cassius Marcelo Clay” paying homage to boxer and black activist Muhammad Ali. Rather than use overly theatrical performance to shock the audience or write songs loaded with political content, Ben became known as one of the country’s great musical alchemists, a furiously eclectic songwriter who combined elements of indigenous Brazilian music with a groove from the west coast of Africa. Never a controversial figure in the manner of the tropicalistas like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, Ben became one of the most respected and resilient figures in Brazilian pop.

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Ben

GuerssenAdmin — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:00:00 +0000

The long unavailable ninth album by Brazilian star JORGE BEN. Released in 1972, “BEN” comes from one of Jorge Ben’s most artistically important phases, the early 70s. The album has some of Ben’s most famous songs, “Taj Mahal” (plagiarized by Rod Stewart on his song “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, as the British singer admitted himself in 2012), and “Fio Maravilha”, paying homage to Flamengo’s iconic football player Fio Maravilha.

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Africa Brasil

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000

Africa Brasil is a 1976 release by Brazilian artist Jorge Ben. It was Ben’s 14th studio album and a milestone in his career with a switch to electric guitar and funk music leaks. For África Brasil Ben reworked three of his earlier compositions: “A Princesa e o Plebeu” from Sacundin Ben Samba, “Taj Mahal” from Ben, and “Zumbi” from A Tábua de Esmeralda. The album’s opening track “Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)”, a song about an African football striker, became a well known soccer-associated track and it was later included on David Byrne’s 1989 compilation Brazil Classics Beleza Tropical, prompting rotation of a video for the track on VH-1.

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Tropical (Yellow)

GuerssenAdmin — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:00:00 +0000

Tropical is Jorge Ben’s fifteenth album, a “muscular” mix of previously unreleased material and rearranged covers such as “Taj Mahal” and “País tropical”. The openness to more Pop, more Western arrangements, foreshadows his future work oriented towards the stereotypical World-Dance of the 1980s. Tropical was originally intended for the market outside Brazil, and was not distributed there until 1977. A very fine confirming his immense talent and ability to adapt to the zeitgeist by intelligently breathing new life into “old” tunes that have been listened to over and over again. An era defining recording from Brazil with a unique groove and infectious energy.

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Ben

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:00:00 +0000

The long unavailable ninth album by Brazilian star Jorge Ben. Released in 1972, “Ben” comes from one of Jorge Ben’s most artistically important phases, the early 70s. The album has some of Ben’s most famous songs, “Taj Mahal” (plagiarized by Rod Stewart on his song “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, as the British singer admitted himself in 2012), and “Fio Maravilha”, paying homage to Flamengo’s iconic football player Fio Maravilha.

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10 Anos Depois

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:00:00 +0000

10 Anos Depois is the tenth album by Brazilian musical artist Jorge Ben, released in 1973. It is a collection of popular songs from the first decade of his career re-recorded as medleys.

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A Tabua de Esmeralda

GuerssenAdmin — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 23:00:00 +0000

During the mid-1970s, Jorge Ben could do no wrong. Known as the father of samba rock, Ben gained an international audience with an infectious singing style marked by bright optimism and funny satire; A Tábua de Esmeralda deviated from the script by delving into the alchemy of the Middle Ages, as well as the second coming of Jesus, but the production is so nuanced and his voice so agreeable that the album was a surefire hit, and Ben manages to squeeze in some groovy numbers saluting womanhood, and slave leader Zumbi dos Palmares. The result is a must-have Jorge Ben gem that has stood the test of time, and then some!

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Big Ben Strikes Again (Clear vinyl)

GuerssenAdmin — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000

Jorge Ben is one of the greatest living Brazilian musicians and songwriters. “Big Ben Strikes Again”, originally released in 1967 on Phillips, includes many of his early compositions. Backed by a big orchestra Ben’s warm, emotional voice shines through a very swinging song programme. This is when Ben’s unique samba style was successfully flirting with catchy jazz arrangements. The result is a fantastic album full of exquisite, danceable songs.

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