New old sounds from Brazil
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- 17 Feb 2023
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Today marks the (re-)release of three albums from Brazil: two genuinely old, and one so retro-sounding that it could easily be. We’ll begin with the most radical of the bunch…
Be honest. How many albums do you know of that start with a drum solo? Usually this kind of brouhaha is left for the climax. But then Grupo Um never did things conventionally. At a time when many artists were fleeing the country’s repressive military regime, Grupo Um stayed underground and off the radar in Seventies São Paulo. The trio – pianist Lelo Nazario, brother Zé Eduardo on drums and bassist Zeca Assumpção – cut their musical teeth as the rhythm section of Hermeto Pascoal’s Grupo. They struck out on their own to play the striking brand of contemporary free jazz and Afro-Brazilian rhythms that constitute this, their debut album from 1975. Read More…
