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Bossanova is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Pixies.It was released on August 13, 1990, by English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.
Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
Length 1 "Soul Bossa Nova" Quincy Jones 2:44 2 "Boogie Bossa Nova" Charles Mingus: 2:41 3 "Desafinado" Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Mendonça: 2:53 4 "Manhã de Carnaval (Morning Of The Carnival)" Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Maria: 2:55 5 "Se É Tarde Me Perdoa (Forgive Me If I'm Late)" Ronaldo Bôscoli, Carlos Lyra: 4:21 6 "On the Street Where You Live"
Along with Jobim's original compositions, the album features three standards from the Great American Songbook, ("Change Partners", "I Concentrate on You", and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads") arranged in the bossa nova style. Sinatra and Jobim followed up this album with sessions for a second collaboration, titled Sinatra-Jobim.
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a maximum four-star rating, and commented that the bossa nova and samba repertoire on it was “unexpectedly strong for Vaughan.” [3] Track listing
The album consists entirely of easy listening and bossa nova versions of songs that were written and recorded during the post-punk/new wave era. The band's name is a play on words, new wave and bossa nova being the literal translations, in English and Portuguese respectively, of the French phrase Nouvelle Vague , which is itself a reference to ...
"BMF" (formerly "Boy from South Detroit") is a song by American singer-songwriter SZA from Lana (2024), the reissue of her second studio album SOS (2022). It is a bossa nova song that interpolates " The Girl from Ipanema ", a 1960s single composed by Brazilian musician Antônio Carlos Jobim .