A Brazilian Love Affair


A Brazilian Love Affair is the fourteenth studio album by American musician George Duke, released in 1980 through Epic Records. The album peaked at No. 40 on the US Billboard Top Soul Albums chart and No. 33 on the UK Pop Albums Chart.

Overview

The recording sessions took place from March 1979 to April 1979 at Level E Hawai Recording Studio in Rio de Janeiro and at Westlake Recording Studios. Additional recording took place at Le Gonks West Studio in West Hollywood, California. A Brazilian Love Affair was also mastered by Brian Gardner at Allen Zentz Recording Studio in Los Angeles.
Duke used various keyboard instruments for A Brazilian Love Affair, including Rhodes piano, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Oberheim polyphonic, Minimoog, ARP Odyssey, Yamaha CP-70. The album features several Brazilian jazz musicians. Such as vocalists Flora Purim, Milton Nascimento and Simone, guitarist Toninho Horta, drummer Robertinho Silva, and percussionist Airto Moreira. As well artists like Lynn Davis, Jerry Hey, Larry Williams, Sheila Escovedo and Roland Bautista appeared on the album.

Singles

The album's title tune "Brazilian Love Affair", peaked at No. 36 on the UK Pop Singles Chart.

Critical reception

Alex Henderson of AllMusic praised the album saying, "George Duke had been fairly visible in the R&B world thanks to funk gems like 'Reach for It' and 'Dukey Stick' when he ventured to Rio to record A Brazilian Love Affair, a superb date employing such greats as singers Flora Purim and Milton Nascimento and percussionist Airto Moreira. Although not the return to instrumental jazz some hoped it would be, this heartfelt effort does contain its share of jazz-influenced material."

Personnel

Vocalists
Instrumentalists
Production