Antonio Adolfo Viralata

• Antonio Adolfo – Cascavel
• Antonio Adolfo – Paraiba Do Sul
• Antonio Adolfo – Brincadeira Em Ré
• Antonio Adolfo – Brincadeira Em Mi Bemol
• Antonio Adolfo – Caminhada
• Antonio Adolfo – Vermelhinho
• Antonio Adolfo – Nordeste
• Antonio Adolfo – Alegria de Carnaval
• Antonio Adolfo – Diana E Paulo
• Antonio Adolfo – Viralata
• Antonio Adolfo – Assanhada
• Antonio Adolfo – A Marcha

• 1. Cascavel
• 2. Paraiba Do Sul
• 3. Brincadeira Em Ré
• 4. Brincadeira Em Mi Bemol
• 5. Caminhada
• 6. Vermelhinho
• 7. Nordeste
• 8. Alegria de Carnaval
• 9. Diana E Paulo
• 10. Viralata
• 11. Assanhada
• 12. A Marcha

New edition vinyl reissue of his seminal Brazil/Funk/Jazz fusion CLASSIC LP: Antonio Adolfo's Viralata! Remastered from original tapes and on heavyweight 180 gm vinyl.

An essential album from Brazil's majorly progressive heyday of late seventies jazz-funk. Viralata is a sacred artefact of Brazilian music!

Joe Davis' Far Out label presents this classic album that includes the Brazil jazz dance classic track 'Cascavel' - a BIG Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge tune back in their Dingwalls days.

Viralata sits comfortably on the same pedestal as Azymuth's Light As A Feather and Joao Donato’s Quem É Quem, which is no co-incidence. All three keystone LPs were recorded and engineered by Toniniho, considered by many to be "the Brazilian Rudy Van Gelder" whose magic touches in the studio also helped to produce Marcos Valle's Previsão Do Tempo and Joyce's Água E Luz among many other holy grails and unassailable classics of soulful Brazilian music.

Antonio’s work has been widely performed by his legendary Brazilian contemporaries including Sergio Mendes, Emilio Santiago and Erasmo Carlos, but also by platinum-selling American icons including Stevie Wonder, Herb Alpert and Dionne Warwick. Following an early 70s spell of studying jazz in the USA, Viralata’s release in 1979 arrived at the height of a flourishing period of Antonio’s career. With his late 60s and 70s output following through on his influences of tropicalia, funk, MPB and easy listening, the almost entirely instrumental Viralata marked an apex for Brazilian jazz.