Álvaro Assmar - Family & Friends

Size: 92.3 MB
Time: 40:02
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Rock, Blues
Art: Front

1. Time to Change [3:45]
2. Welcome My Baby [4:07]
3. Country World [2:08]
4. Don't Shut Me out of Your Love [3:44]
5. Forró Blues [3:26]
6. Lose My Faith [3:50]
7. Capoeira in Blues [3:12]
8. It's My Rock & Roll [4:07]
9. Changes [4:59]
10. I'm Not Ready to Die [3:51]
11. Special Moment [2:47]

Released July 23, 2019, “Family & Friends” is the seventh album in the career of Álvaro Assmar - a pioneer blues guitarist, singer and songwriter in Bahia. It is the last studio material Álvaro had been working on in 2017, until December, when he suddenly died at age 59. These are unpublished recordings produced by the artist in partnership with his son, also blues artist Eric Assmar, who took over the production and finalization of the material after his death.

Family & Friends

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Alvaro Assmar & Mojo Blues Band - Standards

Year: 1995
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:46
Size: 117,0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Stormy Monday (7:22)
2. Driftin' Blues (7:00)
3. The Sky Is Crying (5:43)
4. You Don't Love Me (3:34)
5. Steppin' Out (2:54)
6. Crossroads (3:35)
7. Rambling On My Mind (5:16)
8. Love In Vain (5:09)
9. I'm A King Bee (3:15)
10. Samba Reggae Blues (4:04)
11. Leave My Girl Alone (2:47)

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Alvaro Assmar is known as the biggest blues name in Bahia, Brazil. His technique for playing "slide guitar" in standard tuning brings a very particular language to his sound, placing him among the major blues artists of today.

Mojo Blues Band have been requested to play most of the relevant festival & concert stages in Europe & the US, and even though they have played many years in many places the fire is still burning. They have recorded more than a dozen albums and can look back on an endless list of cooperations with numerous international blues legends.

Standards mc
Standards zippy

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Alvaro Assmar - The Old Road

Size: 124,5 MB
Time: 53:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. The Old Road (3:01)
02. Impeto (4:41)
03. I Miss You Giza (2:28)
04. I Wanna See You Again (4:42)
05. Fukin' The Blues (4:30)
06. Kiss Me Again (3:50)
07. Dependencia (7:18)
08. Just Need The Blues (3:56)
09. Sexo Casual (3:35)
10. Fome De Voce (3:58)
11. Nessa Cidade (Eduardo Scott) (3:41)
12. Antes Do Jantar (2:47)
13. Preciso Te Rever (4:40)

Known as the biggest blues name in Bahia, singer-songwriter Alvaro Assmar releases its sixth album The Old Road.

Bringing an authorial repertoire, totaling 13 songs, the album reveals the most inspired moment of Alvaro, exploring the essence of the blues in its various forms.

The album was recorded in São Paulo, CD Studio, and completed in the studio Star Blues in Salvador. In addition to singing, playing the guitars and acoustic guitars, Alvaro also recorded low on all bands, also relying on the São Paulo drummer Caio Dohogne and the son Eric Assmar, who composed especially for this album the song "Just Need The Blues" where plays guitar and shares vocals with his father.

Participate disc also keyboard players Marquinhos de Carvalho, José Luiz Lima, Christiano Macchi Adriano Grineberg and Miguel Archanjo. The Nivaldo Cerqueira saxophonist brings a jazzy ingredient with great musicianship in instrumental track "Funkin 'The Blues".

The result is a variety of musical genres aggregates to blues, presented here of very particular way in relation to his previous work. Romantic songs as "I Wanna See You Again" and "Rush" are mixed with vibrant themes like "Sex Casual" and the pop song "This City" (Mark Botelho / Claudio Lacerda / Eduardo Scott), a tribute to former Extension 12 group and never officially recorded by the group, one of Bahia's favorite guitarist groups.

His technique of "slide guitar" in standard tuning, is increasingly present throughout most of the tracks and brings a very particular language, placing it as a major blues artists today.

The Old Road

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