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Top 10 Brazilian "Compactos" on the Discogs Blog
Crate Diggers Portland: Allen “The Ambassador” Thayer’s Top 10 Brazilian “Compactos”
The Zombies Interview for Aquarium Drunkard
It’s common knowledge amongst armchair pop music historians that he Beatles album Rubber Soul inspired the Beach Boys’ creative genius Brian Wilson to raise the bar for the group’s seminal sleeper album Pet Sounds and that album, in turn, galvanized the Beatles to respond with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. That’s usually where the factoid ends, but there’s another iconic album that emerged from this friendly transatlantic competition that perfectly encapsulates the zeitgeist of late-sixties pop-psychedelia and continues to inspire musicians around the world: the Zombies’ Odessey & Oracle. Now at AD, creative principles Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent dive in.
RBM Mix #3 - Tim Maia & Friends: Alma Doce (Sweet Soul) by Allen "The Ambassador" Thayer
“Alma Doce” means “Sweet Soul” en Portugues. Check out this sixty-minute mix of early Brazilian Soul related to Tim Maia and his friends done for Records By Mail (aka Craig Moerer) a Portland, OR -based institution
Allen "The Ambassador" Thayer Guests on Lowrider Sundays
That time I guested on Lil’ Smiley’s radio show playing souldies from the U.S. and Brazil, Sunday, December 6th , 2016
Big Ups with Allen Thayer @ Flea Market Funk
Check out my guest spot over at Fleamarketfunk.com for Big Ups!
JUST ANNOUNCED: Tim Maia Racional coming to Live Convention '19
I’ll be out in Toronto in a few weeks to talk about my book Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 out on Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 Global/Brazil imprint - more information on this “festival for record heads” event coming soon!
REVOLUTIONS: The Ambassador DJ set and Book Reading @ Amoeba Records in SF (5-15-2019)
Allen “The Ambassador” Thayer @ Amoeba 5-15-19
The Ambassador Mixes @ Mixcloud
Check out a bunch of The Ambassador’s mixes and radio shows on Mixloud
Lincoln Olivetti 2: Brazilian Disco Don & AOR Ace 1975–1997
After the passing of Lincoln Olivetti, I teamed up with Junior Santos (who compiled the wonderful first volume of Brazilian Disco Boogie Sounds 1978–1982) to create a follow-up mix to showcase Lincoln’s more AOR and Disco sounds stretching from 1975 to 1997! Dig it!
Lincoln Olivetti Disco/Boogie Mix for Wax Poetics
In honor of Brazilian musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer extraordinaire Lincoln Olivetti, who turned 60 on April 17, Wax Poetics scribe and DJ Allen Thayer offers up an 80-minute mixtape called Brazilian Boogie Boss 1978–1984.