Following on the heels of their exceptional
Tropicalia compilation, Britain's Soul Jazz records has given us
Brazil 70, a document whose merits go deeper than just the music.
Brazil 70 pulls tracks from a time when the country's dictatorship was at its peak and even the most popular artists lived with the constant threat of censure and far worse. In the face of this adversity, Tropicalian stars Gal Costa, Rita Lee and Gilberto Gil, although with new voices Joyce, Novos Baianos and more produced music full of radical fusions and intelligently disguised themes of sexuality and identity. Dynamite.
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