Sold Date: July 13, 2024
Start Date: March 13, 2024
Final Price: $39.96 (USD)
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Title: Back Home
Condition: New
Format: Vinyl
Description: Meaning 'Hi' in Uruguayan slang, Opa are a South American jazz-funk phenomenon - Fusing Uruguay's native Candombe rhythms with North American jazz and pop music, Opa's space-age synthesizers, boisterous grooves and compositional magic expressed a distinctive Afro-Uruguayan voice within the global jazz vernacular: a voice which remains as vital and unique today as when it was recorded, almost half a century ago.

Having migrated to New York from Montevideo in the early seventies, Opa were heard playing in a nightclub by renowned producer and label owner Larry Rosen. At Holly Place Studios between July and August 1975, Rosen oversaw Opa's first recordings using a four track TEAC 3340. The album would become home to some of Opa's hardest hitting funk jams, with moments of songwriting wonderment and soulful pop and rock progressions combining with the jazz-funk fusion Opa would become known for.

Mysteriously (for reasons unknown to the band), Opa's debut was shelved and remained so until the mid-1990s. But the Back Home recordings were used as demos, gaining Opa a record deal with Milestone Records and the subsequent release of two cult-favourite albums: Goldenwings (1976) and Magic Time (1977).

Opa would also collaborate with North American titans including bassist Ron Carter, producer Creed Taylor and Brazilian icons Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Hermeto Pascoal and Milton Nascimento. In more recent years Opa's music has found new audiences after being sampled by Captain Murphy (aka Flying Lotus)and Madlib.

For fans of Azymuth, Weather Report, Cortex and The Headhunters, Opa's Back Home will be released on Vinyl LP and CD on the 8th March 2024 via Far Out Recordings
Artist: Opa
No Of Discs: 1
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Record Label: Far Out
EAN: 5065007965504
Release Date: 03/22/2024
Edition: 12" Album
Genre: Jazz
Style: Latin Jazz
MPN: FARO243LP
Release Year: 2024
Tracks:
1: Goldenwings
2: Brooklynville
3: Brother Rada
4: African Bird
5: One+one+one Is Two
6: Corre Nina
7: Casa Forte
8: Never Can Say Goodbye
9: Back Home (The Inner City)

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