SAMBA-ROCK IS BACK! After the huge success of their 10 albums, *100 millions streams on 87 countries*, a cool cinematic bossa nova-jazz groove that could pass for a genuine late-60s or early-70s soundtrack recording, garnished with early 21st century electronic touches. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||The force behind THE SUPER LOUNGE ORCHESTRA is still Bebo Best, who blends elements of dance music, jazz, trip-hop, swing and downtempo into one delicious, happy cocktail and suggests the exuberant insouciance of parties, rides in convertibles on warm, full-moon nights, and an afternoon spent dancing barefoot with friends with a fresh cocktail in your hand. . . . . . . . . . . (...From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Samba rock Stylistic origins Música popular brasileirasambarocksoulfunkpop rockbossa novabluesjazz Cultural origins Late 1950s, São Paulo, Brazil Regional scenes Brazil Other topics Lusophone musicTropicália Samba rock (also known as samba soul, samba funk, and sambalanço) is a Brazilian dance culture and music genre that fuses samba with rock, soul, and funk. It emerged from the dance parties of São Paulos lower-class black communities after they had been exposed to rock and roll and African-American music in the late 1950s. As a development of 1960s música popular brasileira, the genre was pioneered by recording acts such as Jorge Ben, Tim Maia, and Trio Mocotó. It gained a wider popularity in the following decades after breaking through into discotheques. By the 2000s, samba rock had grown into a broader cultural movement involving dancers, disc jockeys, scholars, and musicians, who reinvented the genre in a modernized form...)