unpiano: music

I first started getting into Brazilian music when a friend, who used to travel to Brazil for skateboarding (and to hunt down Volkswagon parts to sell to collectors), used to come back with piles of Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Rita Lee and other Tropicalia records. Not long after, Aquarius Records in S.F. was pumping the U.S. reissues of those and the crazy history of this revolutionary 60’s movement started to circulate. I grabbed up as many Brazilian records from that era as I could, stumbling across this awesome jam after finding Brazil Classics Vol. 1, from David Byrne’s Luka Bop label, in a local dollar bin. Jorge Ben’s work covers a wide mix of styles. The album this originally came from, Africa Brazil, is my favorite by him (and of course, the hardest to find for less than 10 million dollars on fucking E-Bay).

Jorge Ben – Ponta De Lanca Africano (Umbabarauma)

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