ALÔ BRASIL LIVE ***NEW RELEASE!!!***
Released December 31, 2008

Alô Brasil Live is Alô Brasil’s second CD and is a colorful collection of our favorite selections recorded live during our New Year’s Eve 2008 and Carnaval 2008 shows. This album was created for all our friends and fans who have always wanted to capture and take with them some of those enchanting and exhilarating moments from the Alô Brasil experience…

ALÔ BRASIL LIVE TRACKS:
1) Emílio
2) O Sol Vem Saindo
3) Adelita
4) Caxambu
5) Sorriso Aberto
6) Samba de Arerê/Coisinha do Pai
7) Batucada do Carnaval
8) Sereia Guiomar
9) Só Um Mar/Cajuê/Paranaê
10) Mama África
11) Magalenha
12) Axé Pernambucano
13) Liberdade Ilê Aiyê
14) Madagascar Olodum
15) Baião
16) Expresso 2222/Alô Brasil

ALÔ BRASIL MUSICIANS:
Patricio Acevedo: guitar, cavaquinho, surdo, chocalho, backing vocals; Peter Bertini: lead & backing vocals, surdo, apito, triangle, ganzá; Joseph Bryant: timbau, agogô, surdo, backing vocals; Jeremy Dyen: keyboards, bacurinha, tamborim, backing vocals; Ron Howerton: congas, timbau, surdo, cuíca, pandeiro, tamborim; Tom Lowery: caixa, repique de mão, drumset, caxixi; Dave Palan: bass, surdo; Josh Robinson: congas, timbau, bacurinha, surdo, effects; Elizabeth Sayre: chekerê, congas, ganzá, surdo, tamborim; Alex Shaw: lead & backing vocals, pandeiro, rebolo, surdo, timbau, agogô, berimbau; Mike Stevens: pandeiro, bacurinha, repinique, surdo; François Zayas: drumset, timbau, bacurinha

SPECIAL GUESTS: Tim Thompson (trumpet), Ernest Stuart (trombone), Kamau Blakney (berimbau, lead capoeira vocals), Eva Agbada (berimbau), Rev. Larry E. Dixon a.k.a. Who I Am (lyricist), Unidos da Filadélfia (batucada bateria)

Recorded Live (12/31/07 & 2/23/08) @ World Café Live, Philadelphia, PA by Randy Weinholtz for New Media Technologies

Live Sound Engineer: Steve Goodsell

Mixed by Steve Goodsell at Range Recording Studios, Ardmore, PA

Mastered by Tom Volpicelli at Mastering House, Pottstown, PA

Photos by Jackie S. Rios

CD Cover and Artwork by Heather Shaw of Urbancrunchy Design Co.