Bossa Nova

• MATTEO BRANCALEONI – New Life

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova, Chill Out, Cocktail Lounge, Downtempo, Easy Listening, Jazz, Lounge, Nu Jazz, R&B / SoulOct 18, 2012

  

  Appreciated and highly regarded by the likes of Renzo Arbore, Maurizio Costanzo, Fiorello and Michael Buble with whom he duetted live in Rome in 2007 during Michael’s concert, Matteo Brancaleoni is now considered one of the leading Italian interpreters of the American ‘Songbook’. His new album “New Life” was conceived from the encounter with the Roman writer and arranger Nerio Poggi (Papik),

  Read more »

• UNITED PEACE VOICES – Sound of Peace

  No comments yetPosted in Bossa Nova, Breakbeat, Chill House, Chill Out, Downtempo, Electronica, Ethnic / World, Pop, ReggaeJul 6, 2012

  

  The Project UNITED PEACE VOICES starts in 1996 as an artistic and religious experience within the walls of the Milan based Bhuddist Centre ‘Kumpen Lama Gangchen’, a spiritual place dedicated to research, word spreading and a worlwide peace aspiration. United Peace Voices is the expression of the meeting between the Tibetan Lama Gangchen Rimpoche and

  Read more »

• CHILL OUT CAFE’ – Volume dodici

  No comments yetPosted in Bossa Nova, Chill House, Chill Out, Downtempo, House, LoungeMay 21, 2012

  

  After more than 2 years from Volume 11 finally releases the new volume of the most important italian collection of Chill Out music: Chill Out Cafe Volume 12 selected by the IRMA stuff. This too is a double CD format and Super Jewel Box Plus,  collects the best of IRMA’s gender, including songs from albums recently

  Read more »

• PAPIK – Music inside

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova, Chill Out, Cocktail Lounge, Downtempo, Easy Listening, Jazz, Lounge, Nu Jazz, R&B / SoulMay 5, 2012

  

  Papik is the project created by Nerio Poggi, Rome based musician, composer, producer and arranger who’s been getting a lot of positive response from the international Nu-Jazz /Jazz Lounge scene lately. His first album from 2009, ‘Rhythm Of Life’, included the song ‘Staying For Good’, sung by Alan Scaffardi, which became and still is a hit

  Read more »

• ITHAMARA KOORAX – Got to be real

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova, Brazilian, Downtempo, Jazz, PopFeb 12, 2012

  

  IRMA records is glad to announce the release of the new album of Ithamara Koorax titled Got To Be Real. Ithamara Koorax is the most important Brazilian jazz singer, included several times by famous american jazz magazine Down Beat as one of the best female jazz singers in the world. The album is a collection

  Read more »

• 10 CORSO COMO – 20 Years

  No comments yetPosted in Bossa Nova, Classical, Downtempo, Electronica, Folk, Jazz, Lounge, Nu Jazz, Pop, Songwriter, SoundtrackNov 30, 2011

  

  It might sound a little risky, but after twenty years we thought we could dare that

  Read more »

• BANDA BRASILEIRA – Radio Bossa

  No comments yetPosted in Bossa Nova, Brazilian, Cocktail Lounge, Lounge, Nu JazzOct 25, 2011

  

  Banda Brasileira’s debut album is titled “Radio Bossa” due to its nature of compilation of international hits rivisited on a bossa tip, based on a concept by Naples based producer Carlo Gentiletti, with a 20-year sound engineer background, who gives the evergreens on the album the bossa, samba, batucada treatment. The collaboration between Neapolitan and

  Read more »

• FRED BUCCINI – Unusual Nat

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova, Cocktail Lounge, Jazz, Lounge, Nu Jazz, SoulJul 5, 2011

  

  Fabrizio ‘Fred’ Buccini was born in Rome, where he started to sing and play instruments from an early age. As years went by, he learned to sing and write in 9 languages and study sax at the ‘Scuola Popolare di Musica’ in Rome. He began his professional career as a pianist in holiday resorts and

  Read more »

• SISTER BOSSA Vol.10

  2 Comments »Posted in Bossa Nova, Brazilian, Breakbeat, Chill House, Cocktail Lounge, House, Nu JazzJul 5, 2011

  

  cool jazzy cuts with a brazilian flavour

  Read more »

• MAESTRO GAROFALO – Coffee Connection

  No comments yetPosted in Acid Jazz, Bossa Nova, Breakbeat, Chill House, Chill Out, Cinematic, Cocktail Lounge, Downtempo, Electronica, Jazz House, Lounge, Nu JazzMay 31, 2011

  

  Alessandro ‘Maestro’ Garofalo was born in Sicily and started to learn how to play guitar at the age of 10, to move on to piano at a later stage. At the age of 18 he began to play piano with local jazz bands until he moved to Bologna in the 80′s. In that city he

  Read more »

• PAOLO DI SABATINO – Voices

  1 Comment »Posted in Bossa Nova, Jazz, Pop, SongwriterApr 5, 2011

  

  Paolo Di Sabatino has long been considered one of the most interesting Italian jazz pianists and composers. He teaches jazz at the Conservatory “A. Casella” in L’Aquila, has participated in many radio and television (Radio Rai 1, 2, 3, Capital Radio, RAI News 24, TG2, Domenica In, LA7, Talk to me, I own your own) and played in

  Read more »

• LOVE LOUNGE

  No comments yetPosted in Bossa Nova, Chill Out, Cocktail Lounge, Compilation, Downtempo, Easy Listening, Jazz, LoungeFeb 8, 2011

  

  Here is a collection of 20 covers of the most popular love songs ever, re-arranged with that hint of “IRMA” Style (on a “jazz/bossa/lounge” tip!) by IRMA’s more prolific producers. The selection includes: “All Around The World” produced by Black Mighty Wax and sung by Silvia Donati; “Can’t Get Enough Of Your Love” produced by

  Read more »