Various - Soul Jazz Presents Tropicalia: Ou Panis Et CircensisThis album is the definitive statement of the Tropicalia movement in Brazil. The albums collaborators Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Z, Nara Leao, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes mixed psychedelic rock with boleros, sambas, bossa nova and jazz into a carnival esque parade which first announced the new global sound of Brazilian music. What is stunning is that this anarchic and groundbreaking release was recorded at the height of the Brazilian military

The Youth want to bring sixties sounds back into teenage bedrooms ‰ÛÒ where it belongs

percussion avalanches & whizbang punch lines with real punch in them

The music was like nothing I'd ever heard before

yet rhythms in the drifting synth lines ebb and flow like tidal changes

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The truth of the matter

when the Southender re-ignited Estuary Pop with a whirling piano based ditty that landed somewhere in between Ian Dury and the lighter side of Brit Pop" POP JUNKIE

waiting for this to hit the street

Don Bryant was also a fine

A sinister sonic architecture of drum-machine-music and analogue synthesizers

Loz Williams & Alex Silva (Holy Bible) with mixing from Craig Silvey

but the band was not to be