Triple CD guide to the music most associated with Brazil: Bossa Nova. Featuring repertoire from the late 50s through to the early 70s from EMI Odeon with many tracks previously unavailable in Europe. Forget cocktail-sipping easy listening, the Beginner’s Guide to Bossa Nova shows how the music was both modernist and revolutionary born at a time of radical and exciting idealism at the dawn of the 1960s.

Beginner’s Guide to Bossa Nova features tracks from Marcos Valle, Sylvia Telles, Carlos Lyra, Joao Donato, Edu Lobo, Johnny Alf, Roberto Menescal plus other artists who launched their careers in this golden time for Brazilian music.