Description
High-quality reissue of holy grail 70s Brasil Funk LP, a real Killer record which sounds like nothing else with an incredible combination of tracks mixing Brazilian popular music (MPB), regional Folk, Soul and Funk!
Fatiado’s impeccable reissue of one of the holy grails of Brazilian funk - the monster album that is Di Melo’s 1975 debut. The criminally underrecorded Brazilian singer, songwriter, painter and poet released only two 45s and one album in 1975 earning him comparisons to Brazilian household names like Jorge Ben and Tim Maia, but going missing in action straight after put a stop to that, making him the stuff of legends for decades to come.
Word on the street even insisted he was dead until 2011, when a documentary called ‘Di Melo, A Imorrivel’ (‘Di Melo, the Immortal’) was released, followed by a comeback album and a series of collaborations.
‘Kilario’, ‘Vida em Seus Mtodos Diz Calma’ and ‘Permalonga’ are the most obvious entry points to this album, but it wouldn’t be right to reduce this masterpiece to nothing more than a handful of MPB funk bumpers - this is a brilliant work of art from start to finish, Di Melo’s versatility clearly displaying a singular and unrivaled genius. (RO)
