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"Disco meets Bossa"? Sounds like electrified Bossa Nova, like styled soft samba for the dance floor. Or perhaps like an infusion of the Brazil electro wave which was so successful at the turn of the millennium? Not even close! Juliana Aquino represents none of that. This only makes questions about the deeper meaning of her album title DISCO [meets] BOSSA more exciting. However, the answer is conceivably simple: The imaginary disco ball in the title of this Brazilian production is a reference to the "historical" original material. For Juliana Aquino has, courageously and in a most charming way, taken up larger-than-life party classics such as "I Will Survive", "Staying Alive", "Could It Be Magic" and eight other global hits of the disco age. The result is the combination, which is as congenial as it is happy, of two opposites; the quiet, intimate Bossa Nova embraces the flamboyant, fast disco hits in a gentle, almost loving way.

The quiet irony behind this successful fusion is that the older genre gives the younger a live cell treatment, takes the wind out of the party smashes' sails, and at the same time breathes new life into them. And suddenly we rediscover the party songs, which we have heard way too many times, as that which they really are, namely, top quality musical gems. After all, it was often bigger artists such as Barry Manilow, Ashford & Simpson and the Philly Sound hit writers Gamble and Huff who were behind the disco stars and starlets.

For DISCO [meets] BOSSA, her carefully prepared coming out as an international solo artist, Juliana Aquino has collected her own personal versions of eleven great hits from the late 1970s and early 1980s. In congenial cooperation with her producer and husband, Tuta Aquino, who has worked for the likes of Madonna, Janet Jackson and Duran Duran, she has rearranged numbers including "Never Knew Love Like This Before" and "Love Is In The Air" in a novel, unfevered (although when you listen closely they are all the more spectacular for it) way.

With energetic support from selected musicians, the singer succeeds in giving the American originals a considerable slice of Brazilian flair. During the three years of production, the Aquinos invited an impressive team of Brazilian accompanying musicians to the studio recordings. "Disco Bossa" can boast such renowned guests as singer Wilson Simoninha, guitarist and songwriter Celso Fonseca and saxophonist Leo Gandelman.