JOYCE Gafieira Moderna

Sweet sweet Joyce, the lady with the voice, makes another album. I can still remember the first time I heard her, back in the early nineties when Brazilian music became hip. Her voice is like no other; no woman can match her femme fatale bossa sound. She can sweep you up on a wave and carry you to the coast of Brazil with just a few vocal chords.

Joyce began recording albums in the sixties, took a break in the seventies and returned with a killer album Feminina in the eighties, a definite must-have for all cool cats.This is her third album with Joe Davis’ label Far Out Recordings.

We get ten tracks in all, with each one as smooth as silk and full to the brim with cool. The sound is constantly Brazilian, slipping between bossa nova and samba, with help from guests like Tutty Moreno, Eduardo Neves and drop dead vocals on ‘Samba Da Silvia’ from Elza Soares.

A summertime essential.