Musical strangeness from mid-Seventies Brazil that's as essential as it is psychedelic!! In 2011 the label, fully in synch with its baseline essential world cinema and music, started producting films and soundtracks such as 'Rio Breaks', and re-issuing 1970's Brazilian beauties such as Cravo & Canela mid-70s Música Popular Brasileira masterpiece 'Preço De Cada um', some beautiful South American folk-psych-raga thing from Lula Côrtes & Lailson, and a introductory compilation to the sound of the hedonistic psychedelic rock scene in northeastern Pernambuco, Brazil, 'Psychedelic Pernambuco', full of incredible re-discoveries. 2012 saw Mr Bongo exploring deeper and deeper that local scene from 60s and 70s Nordeste do Brasil, from the latin/prog/rock of Marconi Notaro & Lula Côrtes the psychedelic rock of Os Canibais, the garage rock of The Gentlemen, the gentle mid-60s bossa nova of pianist Johnny Alf accompanied by Hermeto Paschoal (flute) and Airto Moreira (drums), to the hard bossa from the same period of the Salvador Trio…
