Joyce - Passarinho UrbanoIn 1975, Joyce Moreno, who had just wrapped up a tour with legendary Brazilian composer Vinicius de Moraes, found herself in a studio with producer Sergio Bardotti in Rome, Italy. She had been taking a break from writing and she decided to pick up a selection of her favorite compositions from contemporary Brazilian writers whos songs were beacons of hope in times of an ongoing intense Military leadership in her home country. Unlike their previous

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with a passage through black American music)

Like A Ship is a stirring and powerful meditation on the wayward aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement

With an inventive and unorthodox approach to both historical and modern compositional techniques and interpretive procedures

who has already built a solid reputation for her own productions and a slew of top charting Aria Club chart moments

but the deduction of instrumentation serves to highlight the ornate and offers comfort with this new found space

Often unable to license the original tracks (until the early 90s the result of an international boycott of the country) labels instead hired producers and session artists to re-record them for the local market

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Real sense of light and dark in this — exploring the very edges of emotion and life