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In much the same way that the blues have informed so much Euro-American popular music in the last century, so too has the comparatively rough-and-ready but chameleon-like 2/4 tempo of samba, which has leaked into everything Brazilian from funk, jazz and soul to hip-hop, indie rock, folk and psychedelic rock. This compilation takes psychedelia as a starting-point, without being too purist about the 2/4 bit. That would deprive us of the joys of Bahia Bass, funky 4/4 psych-soul samba and the countless other permutations of the last few years. Compiling this album provided a totally fresh revelation even for this hoary compiler, who came across Iuri Andrade whilst searching for something completely different. Carioca Iuri, whose day job is as frontman for the psych rock band Andrade E A Torre, has effected a near-perfect combination of the best of psychedelic atmosphere with samba rhythm in this and other home-studio tracks that the listener is urged to search out on the internet. In the same vein – but from Bahia – is former Daniela Mercury sideman (guitar, keyboards) Luciano Salvador, with a track from his second CD, in tandem with the evocative voice of fellow soteropolitana Ana Rocha. Then we have two household names. The first, Marcos Valle, needs little introduction for even the novice Brazilian music fan. Valle’s half-century of music-making has encompassed everything from deep jazz to TV commercials, so it’s no surprise to hear him master the psychedelic samba style with such characteristic aplomb. Then comes Ney Matogrosso, whose gender-defying voice and stage outfits were scandalous in macho 70s Brazil, as a founder member of Secos E Molhados, one of Brazil’s truly great psych-rock bands. Here he’s a guest of Vitor Ramil, surely the finest Brazilian singer-songwriter that almost no-one’s ever heard of. Vitor’s double-album from which this track comes - No Mes Que Bem - is one of the most acc.......
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