Grupo Um Starting Point

• Grupo Um – Porão da Teodoro
• Grupo Um – Onze por Oito
• Grupo Um – Organica
• Grupo Um – Suite Orquidea Negra
• Grupo Um – Jardim Candida
• Grupo Um – Cortejo dos Reis Negros

• 1. Porão da Teodoro
• 2. Onze por Oito
• 3. Organica
• 4. Suite Orquidea Negra
• 5. Jardim Candida
• 6. Cortejo dos Reis Negros

The previously unreleased debut album from 1975

Starting Point was to mark the inception of one of Brazil's most daring instrumental groups. Their debut now sits in the lofty echelon of otherworldly 70s Brazilian music, alongside the likes of Marcos Resende & Index's self-titled debut, Cesar Mariano & Cia's Sao Paulo Brasil, Azymuth's debut and indeed Hermeto Pascoal's Viajando Com O Som. But just like all of those titles, which were either shelved or largely ignored at the time, Grupo Um - so radically ahead of their time - struggled to find a label to release their debut album. So Lelo kept the tapes safe in his archives, which is where they sat for almost half a century. Finally, almost fifty years later, this mesmerising piece of history is here, and it was only the beginning...