Red Hot + Rio

Infobox Album |
Name = Red Hot + Rio
Type = Compilation
Longtype = Charity Album
Artist = Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series
(Various Artists)


Released = October 15 1996
Recorded =
Genre = Bossa Nova
Length = 70:03
Label = Antilles / Verve
Producer = Liminha
PM Dawn
Ivo Meirelles
Stereolab
Jacques Morelenbaum
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jnx1z81aoyv3 link] |
Last album = "America Is Dying Slowly"
(1996)
This album = "Red Hot + Rio"
(1996)
Next album = ""
(1997)

Red Hot + Rio is a compilation album from the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series intended to promote AIDS awareness. This installment is a contemporary tribute to the Bossa nova sound, especially the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim. This release has proven to be one of the Red Hot series' more successful projects, generating hundreds of thousands of dollars for AIDS charities around the world.

Legendary Brazilian recording artists including Jobim, Astrud Gilberto and Gilberto Gil are among the contributors to the project. Along with them, many contemporary pop music performers are featured on this release, including Incognito, David Byrne, Sting and PM Dawn.

In part, the success of the initial album has prompted a second "Red Hot + Rio" project, a live concert event slated for December 2008 in New York City's Brooklyn Academy of Music. [http://www.bam.org/view.aspx?pid=126] Contrasting with the 1996 album, "Red Hot + Rio 2: The Next Generation of Samba Soul" will contain works from Brazil's samba music heritage. The concert will benefit AIDS-related projects coordinated through the Brazil Foundation, founded in New York in 2000 to promote social development throughout communities in Brazil.

Track listing

#"Use Your Head (Use A Sua Cabeca)" performed by Money Mark – 2:47
#"Corcovado (Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars)" performed by Everything but the Girl – 3:56
#"Desafinado (Off Key)" performed by Astrud Gilberto + George Michael – 3:20
#"Non-Fiction Burning" performed by PM Dawn with Flora Purim + Airto – 4:31
#"The Boy From Ipanema" performed by Crystal Waters – 4:24
#"(Interlude)" – 0:14
#"Segurança (Security)" performed by Maxwell – 3:29
#"É Preciso Perdoar (You Must Forgive)" performed by Cesária Évora + Caetano Veloso + Ryuichi Sakamoto – 6:01
#"(Interlude)" – 0:33
#"Water to Drink (Agua De Beber)" performed by Incognito + Omar + Anna Caram – 4:19
#"Dancing…" performed by Milton Nascimento – 3:20
#"How Insensitive" performed by Antonio Carlos Jobim + Sting – 3:44
#"Waters of March (Aguas de Março)" performed by David Byrne + Marisa Monte – 3:15
#"(Interlude)" – 0:25
#"One Note Samba / Surfboard" performed by Stereolab + Herbie Mann – 7:18
#"(Interlude)" – 0:21
#"Black Orpheus Dub" performed by Mad Professor – 3:59
#"Maracatú Atomico" performed by Chico Science + Nação Zumbi + DJ Soul Slinger – 4:27
#"Sambadrome" performed by Ivo Meirelles + Funk 'n Lata – 0:58
#"Refazenda (Refarm)" performed by Gilberto Gil – 4:00
#"Preciso Dizer Que Te Amo" performed by Cazuza + Bebel Gilberto – 4:42

ee also

*Red Hot Organization

External links

* [http://www.discogs.com/release/486038 Red Hot + Rio] Album information from Discogs
* [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=2369 Red Hot in Rio] Album review from allaboutjazz.com