Marconi Notaro and others: Psychedelic Pernambuco – review

Mr BongoRecife, the capital of Brazil's Pernambuco state, has never enjoyed the status or publicity of Salvador or Rio, but it's one of the country's great music centres. A port city famous for its African-influenced maracatu styles and the wild fusions of the Mangue Bit movement in the 1990s, it was also the centre of an experimental music scene in the 1960s and 70s that provided a local answer to Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso' s Tropicália movement – and angered the military authorities, ...

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