This album is what you get when you mix it up with a lot of creative risk and great musicians from all over the world. This is a fully arranged & produced album with a full gamut of instruments. The lyrics are mostly in Portuguese with some english. It's quite hard to pigeonhole "Paixão" as there are many styles, moods & grooves so I'm not even going to try except to say that it's a bit different and at the same time familiar. It's going out on a limb to say it's somewhere between Sade & James Brown. Ok, not really, and I tried. The performing artists, Chiquinho and Raquel, the producer (myself) and the musicians come from the USA, Brazil, Bali, Java and Australia. The recordings also took place in southern & northern California (LA & Bolinas) and also in Japan, but mostly in Bali, Indonesia. The final mixing and mastering was done in Bali. The reason so much was done in Bali (I'm American) is that I have been working on documentaries and with other recording artists there since 2000. In fact, these songs are a combination of songs I've worked on and recorded with both Chiquinho and a Balinese lady by the name of Puspa Dewi. I met Chiquinho 30 years ago in Tokyo, Japan. We've had a dream to do this album ever since. It was quite a dream come true for us to finally do it. We hope you love "Paixão" as much as we do. Kevin Bird