{"product_id":"psychedelic-pernambuco","title":"Psychedelic Pernambuco","description":"\u003cp\u003eFar to the north-east of Brazil’s twin musical capitals of Rio and São Paulo, lies the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. During the country’s lengthy and oppressive military dictatorship (1964-1985), a cadre of like-minded and socially conscientious musicians were quietly building their own music scene, away from the glare of the censors.... for a time, at least.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrongly influenced by the psychedelic music coming out of America and Britain (and further inspired by visits to India and Morocco), local musicians such as Zé Ramalho, Lula Côrtes \u0026amp; Alceu Valença 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mr Bongo","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50441624486219,"sku":"1069281","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f34ef0eb-720b-4ba0-8984-24cd2dadc4fc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726983726","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/psychedelic-pernambuco","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}