Ramón Leal & Beatrice Binotti

Bossanova 1999 is a mirage: it shimmers like vintage Rio but flickers with late-20th-century unease. A little-heard and quietly radical release from Ramón Leal and Beatrice Binotti, this album reinvents bossa nova not as nostalgic wallpaper, but as a gently disorienting language—familiar chords in unfamiliar spaces. It’s as if João Gilberto’s ghost walked through a postmodern jazz lounge and whispered, “Wake up.”