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CATCHALL 11

True Altruism

In 1975, under the oppressive air of military dictatorship in Brazil, brothers Lelo and Ze Eduardo Nazario invited bassist Zeca Assumpção to join their musical experiments in a basement under Sao Paulo’s Teodoro Sampaio Street. The trio had already been playing together in Brazilian polymath Hermeto Pascoal’s band, alongside guitarist Toninho Horta and saxophonist Nivaldo Ornelas, and it was while working together under Hermeto’s direction that the Paulista rhythm section (as they were then known) realised their own potential.

With many nightclubs and venues closed in the mid-70s and government censors dictating the output of radio, TV and art galleries, many Brazilian artists fled during the years of the dictatorship. But underground, Grupo Um were fusing avant garde ideals with contemporary jazz and Afro Brazilian rhythm; making phenomenally beautiful music which was wildly free and expressive - in stark contrast to the sterile, conservative conditions being imposed above ground.

Recorded in just two days at Sao Paulo’s Vice-Versa Studios, Starting Point was to mark the inception of one of Brazil’s most daring instrumental groups. But with a record so radically ahead of its time, Grupo Um struggled to find a label willing to release their debut and Lelo Nazario kept the tapes safe in his archives, which is where they sat for almost half a century…

Finally, this mesmerising piece of history is here, and it was only the beginning…

Grupo Um - Onze Por Oito

Automatic

I shouldn't've gotten high last night, but it's not like I was going to stop. I was thinking of a girl that I used to be close to, a girl that I swore I forgot. I should've went home last night, but you intimated that you were free.  I was slurring through your door trying to make conversation, then I got into bed and I fell right asleep. You don't have to like me. I never wanted you to. But this is what you get now, a boy with a snake in his boot. Oh, please, I don't know how to tell the truth with your arms around me. Katie, I really don't know what to do if you're all about me. I should've went home last night and watched TV. But I got fucked up at the combination KFC.

"In Life I'm in Love"
Written recorded and produced by Reserv
Featuring la la la's from Swords2 Kaiden and Swoopy
Additional production, mixing from Mimics Gate
Stories about figuring it all out

Sort Of A Practical Thing

The Sum of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85)

Dreams

angeltape

Concrete Lily

Kaleidoscope

Happy House

A Cellarful Of Motown!

Those DJ Shows

Here and Nowhere Else

I'm Not Part Of Me

Good God's Urge

100 Ways

Anna And The King Of Siam

The Letters

Finis Africae

Zoo Zulú

The Original Tap Dancing  Kid

Beautiful News

C.R.E.E.P.

Barabajagal

Trude (Album Version)

Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings

Humidity Built the Snowman

There Is No One Else When I Lay Down and Dream

Funny Symphony

LP from Drag City / Yoga Records, DL from Yoga Records. LP is all-analog process. Real heads know the deal on this one. 

Dreams

Martin Rev