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Get ready for a smooth night of bossa nova vibes with Mario Bakuna and his quartet paying homage to João Gilberto live!

Brazilian Landscapes in London! Don't miss it!

After a very successful season performing at international festivals and prestigious music venues in Europe, Africa and Brazil, promoting his previous album, Where Rio de Janeiro Meets Bahia, Mario Bakuna will be launching his latest release at The Bulls Head Jazz Club.

Brazilian Landscapes focusses specifically on Afro-Brazilian music, jazz and Bossa Nova, in addition to developing new arrangements of compositions by legendary Brazilian artists such as Tom Jobim, Paulo Moura and João Donato.

More recently, Mario has been reinterpreting Samba jazz, which emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s and was pioneered by musicians like Luiz Eça, Tamba Trio and Edson Machado.

Brazilian Landscapes celebrates the best of Brazilian music and features new arrangements of material by great composers such as Emilio Santiago, Marcos Valle, Claudio Bertrami, Gilberto Gil, João Bosco, and the 'forrozeiros' Dominguinhos and Luiz Gonzaga.

Mario says the album is a tribute to the culture and memory of its people, and is the result of years of inspiration he drew upon while travelling through Brazil, experiencing its rhythmic and harmonic richness.

From the arid landscape in the north-east that's brought to the chorus of songs of forró, baião and xaxado, to the African influence found in Ijexá, the popularity of Samba and the sophistication of Bossa Nova, Mario and his musicians celebrate the most musically-rich territory on Earth.