Written by: McCartney
Producers: Paul McCartney, Greg Kurstin
Released: 7 September 2018
Available on:
Egypt Station
Personnel
Paul McCartney: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, harmonium, Wurlitzer, congas, triangle, bird recording
Greg Kurstin: bass fx, Wurlitzer
Abe Laboriel Jr: drums, vocals
Pedro Eustache: bamboo flute, dadook
Everton Nelson, Caroline Campbell, Mario De Leon, Peter Kent, Songa Lee, Natalie Leggett, Robin Olson, Katia Popov, Michele Richards, Kathleen Sloan, Tereza Stanislav, Marcy Vaj, Josefina Vergara, Amy Wickman, John Wittenberg: violin
John Metcalfe, Bruce White, Matt Funes, Darrin McCann, Andrew Duckles, Kate Reddish, Rob Brophy: viola
Ian Burdge, Vanessa Freebairn-Smith, Jodi Burnett, Richard Dodd, Rudy Stein: cello
Gayle Levant Richards, Marcia Dickstein: harp
Dan Higgins, Stuart Clark, Joshua Ranz, Philip O’Connor: clarinet
Ralph Williams: contrabass clarinet
James Hovorka, Kye Palmer, Miguel Guerrero: trumpet
Doug Tornquist: tuba
Ana Flávia Kazumi Sakamoto Fonzaghi, Mary Miwako Abe Takeda, Michelli Kaori Katayama Tamari, George Yuji Motoda, Luciana Mayumi Abe Yoshizaki, Irene Ueti Sakamoto, Jorge Kazuo Sakamoto, Felipe Yuiji Katayama, Eliana Shoyama, Afonso Mitsuo Sawada, Cíntia Sayuri Sawada, Nely Abe, Lucia Abe Okuda, Thiago Eiji Taromaru, Tetuji Taromaru, Rosa Seiko Sawada Abe, Nanci Hitomi Abe: choir
‘Back In Brazil’ is the eleventh track on Egypt Station, Paul McCartney’s 17th solo studio album.
So I was in Brazil on tour. We had one of those nice free days where there is nothing planned. And I had a piano in the room, of the hotel room. So I got this little riff, and got this idea of: back in Brazil, there was this girl who dreams of a future, a far, far better world. She meets a man, he fits in with her plan.So it’s a story about a couple, and trials and tribulations. Things are going well and she plans a date, but he can’t come ’cause they’ve got him working late.
And so it was just an imaginary story of two young Brazilian people. And it’s kind of dancey, so I wanted to put Brazilian rhythms to it and get the flavour.
I’d written it on a day off in Brazil, when I just happened to be on my own. Nancy had gone to New York for something, so I happened to be just there on my own. I’d done everything I wanted to, I’d had a breakfast, I’d been to the gym, so now I was just lounging around and there was a little piano in the, little Wurlitzer in the suite I was staying in, so I started playing with that and so I knew the basic thing, so I wrote the song there in Sao Paulo. Then we came to record it and we couldn’t kind of get it right, we tried quite a few things on the rhythms to get the feel and in the end, we got the one that’s on the record and we were pleased with it. Greg put that sort of, [makes beeping sound], little sort of thing and we put some percussion on it and suddenly it just fell into place.
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