Marcos Valle - "Água De Côco"

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Featured on the Putumayo collection "Brazilian Lounge."
Originally released on February 21st, 2006.

From the liner notes:

While not as internationally renowned as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil or Sergio Mendes, Marcos Valle is nearly as important in the history of Brazilian music. Born in Rio in 1943, Valle began composing samba and bossa nova tracks with his brother Paulo. Valle’s classic composition “So Nice (Summer Samba)” was a U.S. Top 40 hit in 1966. Despite these and many other successes throughout the 70s and 80s, Valle only recently achieved wide popularity when British dance labels began unearthing and reissuing his classic albums.

Since his older recordings were rediscovered, Valle has returned to the studio and recorded a number of popular albums of samba mixed with funky jazz and soul. This updated version of “Água de Côco” (Coconut Water) appears on Valle’s 2003 recording Contrasts. “For those who like the wind / It will blow / For those who like the rain / It will rain / For those who like the moon / The moon will shine For those who want sunny days / The sun will come.”