To inaugurate the TRAVEL GUIDE collection Sonar Kollektiv has the honour to re-issue the wonderful folk album Listen of of Brazilian singer-songwriter PAUL BRYAN originally released in 1973 on the label Top Tape in Brazil. Listen Of is a real collectors’ item almost impossible to find outside Brazil. PAUL BRYAN is the pseudonym that Brazilian Artist and musician SÉRGIO SÁ, a blind-born keyboard player with a long and successful musical career in Brazil as composer, producer and arranger, used to produce the album. Following the outstanding success of Listen Of SÉRGIO became requested for musical arrangements and recordings as keyboard player. He recorded in the studio with famous artists like 'the king' ROBERTO CARLOS, GILBERTO GIL, SIMONE, TIM MAIA, HERMETO PASCHOAL, FÁBIO JÚNIOR, JANE DUBOC and THE TRAPALHOES amongst many others. Moreover In his journey SÉRGIO has had the opportunity to live in the USA and to work there for STEVIE WONDER. The life of SÉRGIO is made of constant and strenuous efforts to reach his dreams. He would not have been so successful without this exceptional optimism.

There’s also an interesting story behind the record Listen Of. In the seventies Brazilian radios played many British and American records. The label Toptape came up with the idea of recording an album of romantic songs and ballads in English on its sub-label Blue Rock. SÉRGIO found his inspiration in the music of THE BEATLES, LENNON and MAC CARTNEY and hits of the American Motown label and artists such as JACKSON 5, DIANA ROSS and STEVIE WONDER. The romantic ballad Listen peaked up the Brazilian charts in 1973 and was used in a successful Brazilian soap.. SÉRGIO recorded 12 songs in total for Listen Of. Listen Of has been a huge success and sold more than 150 000 copies in Brazil alone.

For its new download platform and digital sub-label Digital Kollektiv, JAZZANOVA picked up 2 of their favorites songs Like A Rainy Night and Window. JUERGEN from JAZZANOVA found the album listen Of while record digging in Berlin 9 years ago, but it’s only 3 years ago that he found a 7’ with the beautiful uptempo folk number Like A Rainy Night. He played it out in clubs regularly and he has been happily surprised to see the great response of the audience. It is indeed a tune that get people dancing automatically. The second chosen song called window was PAUL BRYAN’s second big hit after Listen. This tender piece of folk with beautiful harmonies, woodwinds and string instruments played by the Paulista Symphonic Orchestra has also been used for a very successful Brazilian soap in the seventies.

This release, which is the most romantic so far on Digital Kollektiv, will take your heart at once! And like JAZZANOVA you will listen to Like A Rainy Night and Windows over and over again...