John MacMurchy leads a 8 musician, 2 voiced team of bruce Casidy/EVI-fh, Olivia Esher/frh, Dan Ionescu/g, Stacie McGregor/p, Ross MacIntyre/b, Daniel Barnes, Alan Hetherington/perc, and Jocelyn Barth-Jessica Lalonde/voc through a collection of gentle Brazilian breezes. The pretty voices sway through richly bowed bass and lovely guitar on “Callipe” with lusch piano providing a rice pilaf of support for the dainty Barth on “February Brings Rain.” MacMurchy brings flute, tenor sax and clarinet in to support and never dominate the outing, bringin in pastoral charms via the licorice stick to team woth LaLonde on the gracious “Autumn Brown and Blue.” The team comes off as a modern Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 on the modern samba “Meu Coracao Canta” and the sighing “The Remains.” 21st Century samba and beyond.