septuagenarian brazilian music icon elza soares teams up with the cream of sao paulo’s avant-garde musicians for an album of apocalyptic, experimental samba sujo (dirty samba) that tackles the burning issues of 21st century brazil: racism, domestic violence, sex, drug addiction and global warming. the woman at the end of the world is elza’s 34th studio album and her first to feature previously unrecorded material, exclusively composed for her.
elza soares is a brazilian samba artist, who lived in rio de janeiro. she became famous when she went to chile to represent brazil in the 1962 football world cup.
far out recordings celebrate a funky south american christmas with the release of a special and very limited –, to just 100 sets worldwide –, edition heavyweight vinyl lp double pack from the labels two biggest artists azymuth & banda black rio. their albums were two of the records of the year in the latin / funk / dance / world market and here the perfect combination come together to party through the end of 2011 brazilian style. presented together for the first time this quality package of legendary artistsl, brilliant acclaimed new recordings and stunning reversible artwork (azymuth by andy votel and banda black rio by paul flack) will become highly sought-after as with far outs previous exclusive, limited five seven inch vinyl set for record store day.