Psychedelic Pernambuco Psychedelic Pernambuco

• The Gentlemen – Sorriso Selvagem
• Flaviola e o Bando Do Sol – O Tempo
• Geraldo Azevdeo & Alceu Valenca – 8 Rotacoes
• Marconi Notaro – Antropologica
• Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca – Mister Misterio
• Geraldo Azevdo & Alcey Valnca – Novena
• Lula Cortes & Ze Ramakho – Bailado Das Musicaras
• Flaviola e o Bado Do Sol – Desespero

• 1. The Gentlemen – Sorriso Selvagem
• 2. Flaviola e o Bando Do Sol – O Tempo
• 3. Geraldo Azevdeo & Alceu Valenca – 8 Rotacoes
• 4. Marconi Notaro – Antropologica
• 5. Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca – Mister Misterio
• 6. Lula Cortes – Nordeste Oriental
• 7. Geraldo Azevdo & Alcey Valnca – Novena
• 8. Lula Cortes – Bahjan Oracao Para Shiva
• 9. Marconi Notaro – Maracatu
• 10. Lula Cortes & Ze Ramakho – Bailado Das Musicaras
• 11. Flaviola e o Bado Do Sol – Desespero
• 12. Lula Cortes – Noitre Preta
• 13. Marconi Notaro – Fidelidade
• 14. Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca – Planeterio
• 15. Marconi Notaro – Ahv Ida Avida
• 16. Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho – Maracas De Fogo
• 17. Geraldo Azevedo & Alceu Valenca – Virgem Virginia
• 18. Lula Cortes – Alegro Piradissimo
• 19. Lula Cortes & Ze Ramalho – Beira Mar

Wild seventies Brazilian psychedelic-funk from the state of Pernambuco in north-east Brazil!

Strongly influenced by the psychedelic music coming out of America and Britain (and further inspired by visits to India and Morocco), local musicians such as Ze Ramalho, Lula Cortes & Alceu Valenca were to be the vanguard of their own, wild, hedonistic Psyche-scene. There would be sitars and lutes merging with traditional Pernambucan percussion; constant collaborations and ethereal art-collectives; experiments with 'found-sound' colliding with earthy flutes and driving backlines all helped along by men wearing lipstick, acid, mushrooms, marijuana, suggestive dancing and plenty of onstage kissing.

The songs and artists featured on this album are a fittingly schizophrenic selection. Psychedelic Pernambuco finds crazed ethno-punk giving way to tweaked Americana; mystical jungle-folk stands alongside cocaine-fuelled fuzz-rock, and acid-raga trance segues into mutated proto-disco.