What is the best Azymuth album?

What is the best Azymuth album?

What is the worst Azymuth album?

Well, the best would have to be Light As A Feather, give me a ten minute disco samba workout and I'm pretty happy. And then Outubro. And that'll probably do you.

I'm actually surprised no-one answered this first time around.

i would say you can't go wrong with the first 2 lp's, in fact i find them essential, but i do love me so azymuth. the rest of their discography has lots of peaks and valleys. on the brazil-disco-jazz-funk side of things the 1980 outubro album is great, if only for Dear Limmertz and Maracana. the Jazz Carnival LP is also tasty, oh and the jazz carnival 12 inch is a straight slab of dance floor funkiness

azymuth playing in LA on august 16th

thats awesome ! yeah i love roberto betrami,that guy was a master of the keys, some of their stuff reminds me of placebo at moments.
this is my jam off the first lp. i can't remember who sampled it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_FZQYogpIs

thank you guys for finally answering. i picked up Flame (which AMG says is their best) & Tightrope Walker from dustygroove for like 2bucks each and while they're ok (actually, they aren't that good, but my tolerance for cheese and elevator is way down lately), they're not as good as the track Dear Limmertz that i heard recently. i need to find some of the earlier albums.

yeah amg isn't a very reliable source for azymuth and 70's world-jazz-funk in general. the critics tend to focus on what was popular at the time for them (and azymuth did get popular) which like you said runs towards the elevator/cheese end of things and give it high marks based on that. yet, they'll give low ratings to a record by a popular jazz artist because it went too disco or whatever, relying on the consensus of the critics taste at the time. what i'm trying to say came out kinda jumbled but i think you know what i mean. anyways, i think you'll really like their early stuff and dear limmertz is the jam !

ayo, this beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HszL4OIAbZM

is fucking confusing

solid jam though, wow.

in the chorus, it's basically a baião beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTQmnu4iMU

ya, but otherwise it's . . . uhh, not that. i am completely without the music theory knowledge to explain what the hell i'm hearing. the most i can say is the beat is definitely not in 4/4. i'm mostly listening to the drums and marveling at what a chaotic pattern it is for the dude playing it. sounds like something only an octopus would be capable of. i dig it.

(also this song is cool. thank you for sharing!)

Saw them live with Marcos Valle in Melbourne last month. Awesome.

^ Oof, I really should be more attentive. Azymuth have been a major belatedly-new-to-me Spotify binge thing for me in the past year or so. I have a pretty high tolerance for cheesier stuff too so don't recall any of it being displeasing.

Yeah, Valle and Azymuth at a Jazz club somewhere in South London a few years ago was one of my all-time concert experiences, highly recommend.

LOVE Azymuth/Azimuth, especially their playing on Valle's Previsão Do Tempo. Austin I think the verse of that track you posted is in 7/8, then it switches to 4/4 and back again.

Austin I think the verse of that track you posted is in 7/8

― J. Sam, Tuesday, April 19, 2022 7:23 AM

ahh yes . . . one of the time signatures i have active beef with.

(the other is 5/4. what an awakward asshole of a rhythm.)

RIP

https://pitchfork.com/news/azymuth-drummer-ivan-mamao-conti-dies-at-76/

Oh no!! Looks like I will be playing his recent-ish (2019?) solo album today in memoriam

I've been listening to the album he did with Madlib (Jackson Conti), but starting in on Poison Fruit and it sounds sick so far.

Poison Fruit is incredible, especially given that he was 70-ish when he made it. It both sounds fresh and modern while also sounding like something those DJs who play forgotten '80s dance and boogie would play.

(not that it sounds '80s, just has that lost gem feel on some tracks)