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v/a - psychedelic pernambuco - mr bongo - cd

Genre: Brazil

1. Sorriso Selvagem - The Gentlemen
2. O Tempo - Flaviola e o Bando Do Sol
3. 8 Rotacoes - Geraldo Azevdeo & Alceu Valenca
4. Antropologica - Marconi Notaro
5. Mister Misterio - Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca
6. Nordeste Oriental - Lula Cortes
7. Novena - Geraldo Azevdo & Alcey Valnca
8. Bahjan Oracao Para Shiva - Lula Cortes
9. Maracatu - Marconi Notaro
10. Bailado Das Musicaras - Lula Cortes & Ze Ramakho
11. Desespero - Flaviola e o Bado Do Sol
12. Noitre Preta - Lula Cortes
13. Fidelidade - Marconi Notaro
14. Planeterio - Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca
15. Ahv Ida Avida - Marconi Notaro
16. Maracas De Fogo - Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho
17. Virgem Virginia - Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca
18. Lula Cortes - Alegro Piradíssimo
19. Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho - Beira Mar

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Ocelote Rojo

Big up to mr. Bongo Records for their next level digging on this AMAZING new psych/folk Brazilian comp. Warm recommendations!!!

Far to the north-east of Brazils twin musical capitals of Rio and Sao Paulo, lies the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. During the countrys lengthy and oppressive military dictatorship (1964-1985), a cadre of like-minded and socially conscientious musicians were quietly building their own music scene, away from the glare of the censors.... for a time, at least.

Strongly influenced by the psychedelic music coming out of America and Britain (and further inspired by visits to India and Morocco), local musicians such as Z Ramalho, Lula Cortes & Alceu Valenca were to be the vanguard of their own, wild, hedonistic Psyche-scene. There would be sitars and lutes merging with traditional Pernambucan percussion; constant collaborations and ethereal art-collectives; experiments with
found-sound colliding with earthy flutes and driving backlines all helped along by men wearing lipstick, acid, mushrooms, marijuana, suggestive dancing and plenty of onstage kissing.

The songs and artists featured on this album are a fittingly schizophrenic selection. Psychedelic Pernambuco finds crazed ethno-punk giving way to tweaked Americana; mystical jungle-folk stands alongside cocaine-fuelled fuzz-rock, and acid-raga trance segues into mutated proto-disco. Tip!!


The party couldnt last forever. The military were a constant nuisance and a growing threat to these underground experimentalists. In one famous incident Lula Cortes & Z Ramalho were forced to leave Recife and flee to the woods to record their cult-classic album, Paebiru named after the mystical Paebiru Stone which is alleged to have alien hieroglyphs carved into its sides. In the end, compounding factors like the ascent of modern-rock and the severe restrictions on their output by the military (whole pressings of albums were frequently seized and destroyed), led many of the vanguard of the Pernambucan scene to slowly dissipate and eventually blow away with the wind, like so much marijuana smoke. The final hurrah would come from Lula Cortes, who, wishing to close all this with a golden key, went into a small studio in 1980 to record Rosa de Sangue, it was duly destroyed upon its completion. Nobody knows if any copies survived.