Paêbirú, by Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho

Paêbirú

by Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho

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1.	Trilha De Sumé 06:30	buy track
2.	Culto À Terra 02:11	buy track
3.	Bailado Das Muscarias 04:34	buy track
4.	Harpa Dos Ares 04:01	buy track
5.	Não Existe Molhado Igual Ao Pranto 07:30	buy track
6.	Omm 06:03	buy track
7.	Raga Dos Raios 02:30	buy track
8.	Nas Paredes Da Pedra Encantada 07:33	buy track
9.	Marácas De Fogo 02:34	buy track
10.	Louvação A Iemanjá 01:53	buy track
11.	Regato Da Montanha 03:24	buy track
12.	Beira Mar 01:39	buy track
13.	Pedra Templo Animal 04:15	buy track
14.	Trilha De Sumé 02:04	buy track

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The album is a collaboration between Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho, a wonderfully off-kilter record full of fantastic hooky and strange tunes that range from full-on freakouts to quiet pastoral numbers displaying the entire range of 1970s hippie Brazilian musician culture.

Paebiru is an obscure Brazilian psych concept album about the four elements that was lost to time in a warehouse fire in 1974. This led to it becoming a massively sought-after classic, fetching up to $4,000 for original vinyl copies.

Lula, who composed and played on the tracks sadly passed away in 2011 after fighting a long battle with cancer.

Paebiru offers a very atmospheric blend of both artists' sensibilities: 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.

In Brazil, from the late 1960's onward, Caetano Veloso, Jorge Ben, Tom Ze and many others blended elements of psychedelic rock, jazz and indigenous folk with more 'classicâl' instrumentation and urban styles such as bossa nova and samba. As much a political identity movement as a cultural one, Tropicalia, as it came to be known, artists as a whole were interested in using artistic expression to remove barriers and as a means of enabling other societal freedoms.

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released January 1, 2012

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