Mark Weinstein
O NOSSO AMOR
Jazzheads Records
Mark Weinstein - soprano, alto and bass flutes
Romero Lubambo - guitar
Nilson Matta - bass
Paulo Braga - drums
Guilherme Franco - percussion
Jorge Silva - percussion

This is what the critics are saying about Mark's O NOSSO AMOR:

"With O Nosso Amor, flautist Mark Weinstein has put together one of the year's top Latin jazz releases. The recording, which is of superior quality and performance, resonates Weinstein's texture on every track..."

"This is Jobim and Bonfa of old, but with a modern contemporary twist. The group's striking use of imagery in their renditions points to their unusual artistic sensibility and viewpoint about their chosen craft..."

O NOSSO AMOR is available now through Synergy Distribution, contact us more more details on ordering. 

This Heat, the band emerged in early 1976 on the leading edge of what became the New Wave, but they were always apart, more scary and more subtle. Known as the most left-field, and at the same time most hard-edged, band in the country, their concerts attracted Experimental, Punk and New Wave audiences alike. Just a handful of performances made them the band everyone had to see, and every journalist had to interview. And the more we knew, the more enigmatic they became. This Heat was a passion. The band worked day-in, day-out for years in their own, now legendary, studio in Brixton (Cold Storage - sited in an old industrial meat refrigerator), or they were away somewhere touring abroad. In this hothouse environment, their material evolved and grew, and became increasingly intense; on the one hand more cuttingly simple, on the other more layered and more dense. When their first LP - itself several years in the making - finally appeared on David Cunningham’s Piano label in 1979, with its distinctive blue and yellow sleeve, it acquired immediate iconic status. And over time it has also proved itself prescient; there are musical innovations here that anticipate genres that would take another 15 years to reappear.

This Heat, the record was a landmark release. It tore up the book and laid new rules for band composition and performance. The music was without precedent; the musicians uncompromising; the recordings hammeringly intense and the sound deep, radical, and rich. This was music stripped back to the bone but never simplified. And it hasn’t aged.

The later CD version of the LP has now been out of print for some fourteen years (and is currently fetching £150-200 second-hand), so this edition, the first on the new this is label, re-mastered and repackaged by the group, will be doubly welcome. It is the first of a series of historical This Heat re-editions and unpublished works by the band to be released on this dedicated label.

Contact Synergy Distribution for more info on how to order this long awaited release!