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BungaLove – Samba Natural (2007)
Samba Natural, a new album from Funky Juice Records, is a project that finds its roots in the bossanova and brazilian beat. Featuring Marco Ricci and Mishael Levron, initiators and creators of BungaLove, it offers a new sound in which tradition and new musical trends merge with soft electronic sounds.
The album brings together many influences and styles into a new, fresh and misty atmosphere. Tracks such as “Aphrodisiaco” and “A Groovy Day”, heavily characterized by Soul and Funky beats, blend with gentle and soft ballads like “Bem Devagar”, “Depois” and “Dreaming Olinda”, passing through light samba-bossas such as “So eu e voce”, “Maracanà”, “Samba Natural” and many others.
The album’s title was taken from the 7th track, composed by Mishael Levron with words written by Dan Wiesenfeld, a happy and bubbly samba created on a blues structure with some brasilian harmonic variations.
“Maracanà” was the first track to be released on many compilations and is Bungalove’s most distinguished track as for style and tempo. Sung by Sandy Gasperoni (aka Muller) with Pedro Scassa on the flute, Maracana and “So Eu E Voce” represent Bungalove’s greatest hits. After Gasperonis departure for Brazil, a new singer was brought into the studio, Dalia Mattioni, who had already worked with Mishael in many previous projects. New songs begin to take shape, reaching a climax in “Dreaming Olinda”, (music by Mishael Levron and words by Dalia Mattioni), passing through “Depois”, (music Mishael Levron and words Pedro Scassa), “Balao”, “Minha Loucura”, “Bem Devagar” (all composed by Mishael Levron with words by Dan Wiesenfeld); different songs but with the same particular flavour of Marco Ricci’s arrangements and artistic direction. “Saturday Song”, “Aphrodisiaco” and “A groovy Day” are three instrumental tracks composed by Marco Ricci and Mishael Levron that mix many influences such as middle-eastern music ( Saturday Song) with Soul, Funky and…naturally Samba.
Many fellow musicians have collaborated on this album: flutist Pedro Scassa, percussionist Simone Haggiag , Sax Player Carlo Conti, Bass players Stefano Nunzi and Lucio Fasino. Bungalove are preparing their live set that will include Mishael on Guitars, Marco on Keyboards and computers, Dalia on Voice, Pedro on Flute, and new comers Matteo Pezzolet on Bass and Neto Salis on Percussions.

Biographical notes:
Mishael Levron, guitarist, author, composer, architect; begins to play jazz and bossanova in Israel since he was 13, heavily influenced by masters such as Tom Jobim, Toninho Horta, Bireli Lagrene and Jim Hall. He arrives in Italy in 1993, and in 2000 he begins to colaborate in live sessions with Rosalia De Souza, with which, later on,he creates "Projeto Alma" and ibon. In the meanwhile he appears on 9Lazy9’s last album "Sweet Jones".
Marco Ricci, author and producer, web designer, multimedia author: graduated from UM of Rome on electronic music programming, is the project’s artistic director: keyboards, programming, production and post-production are his main roles. .