LULA CORTES E ZE RAMALHO Paebiru 2xLP/RARE BRAZIL PSYCH

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LULA CORTES E ZE RAMALHO 'Paebiru' Double LP (UK, Mr. Bongo Records, Catalogue #MRBLP050) Brand new/unplayed copy of superb, limited Double LP vinyl edition (edition of 1000 copies only!) on the Mr. Bongo label of MEGA-RARE (perhaps the absolute rarest Psych album from Brazil) 1974 Psych double album from Lula Cortes and Ze Ramalho. (NOTE: LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES ONLY!) 'Paebiru is an obscure Brazilian psych concept album about the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) that was lost to time in a warehouse fire in 1974, causing it to become a massively sought-after lost classic, fetching up to $1500 for vinyl copies. This recording of the collaboration between Brazilian artists Lula Cortes and Ze Ramalho is a wonderfully off-kilter record, full of fantastic hooky and strange tunes that range all over the place, from full-on freakouts to quiet pastoral. The entire range of 1970s hippie Brazilian musician culture is displayed in this record. It's experimental, but it's relentlessly driven towards fun. If you like good music, you will like this legendary album untouched by time. Cortes, who composes and plays on many of the tracks, seemingly appears only when talking about obscure Brazilian psych reissues. Ramalho, on the other hand, has built a solid career as a Brazilian pop singer and takes on most vocal duties. It's a very atmospheric blend, sung and chanted vocals are no more or less important than any of the other elements, which include classical acoustic and fuzzy electric guitar, piano, organ, flute, sax and a range of percussion. It's free and psychedelic, but just reigned in enough to keep it tense and exciting. The closest comparison might be to combine Amon Duul with Sunburned Hand Of The Man and perhaps Double Leopards, if they lived in a commune together in Brazil and recorded while indulging in mass quantities of narcotics. In Brazil from the late 1960s onward, Caetano Velosa, Jorge Ben, Tom Ze, and many others blended elements of psychedelic rock, jazz, indigenous folk, withe more 'classic' urban styles (bossa nova, samba, etc.) and instrumentation. As much a political identity movement as a cultural, Tropicalia artists as a whole were interested in using artistic expression as removing barriers and as a means of enabling other societal freedoms. Simultaneously, but accross the Atlantic, European mystical trance rock of the time, beginning with outfits like Parson Sound and Amon Duul, and continued by Trad Gras Och Stenar and Algarnas Tradgard.''This double-album is considered to be one of Brazil's finest psychedelic recordings and it is also one of the world's rarest albums. The album is a fusion of weaving guitar jams with a flavour of acoustic salsa, detuned string experiments, sound effects (similar to those of krautrock groups like Faust) and jazzy interludes. Most of the tracks are psychedelic in their opening segments. The opening cut is very psychedelic and recalls Amon Duul.' - Dreams, Fantasies And NightmaresTracks on this Double LP are as follows: Trilha De Sume Culto A Terra Bailado Das Musacarias Harpa Dos Ares Nao Existe Molhado Igual Ao Pranto Omm Raga Dos Raios Mas Peredas Da Pedra Encantada Maracas De Fogo Louvacao A Iemanja Regato Da Montanha Beira Mar Pedra Templo Animal Trilha De Sume Shipping in US is $4.00./CANADA (AIRMAIL) is $9.00./OVERSEAS AIRMAIL is $19.00. (Shipping totals will be consolidated for multiple winning bids.) read more

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