Grupo Um - Starting Point LP searching for the treasure of

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And he still found time to sit-in for the entire March 30 Brötzmann/Perkins Amherst Meetinghouse gig

The album contains the familiar vocal trade-offs between Mike and Karina

Three chord janglepunk anthems arise suddenly out of a cosmic mist crafted by analogue synths reciting the poetry of machines

Grupo Um - Starting Point LP searching for the treasure ofThe previously unreleased debut album from 1975. In 1975, under the oppressive military dictatorship in Brazil, brothers Lelo and Z Eduardo Nazario invited bassist Zeca Assumpo to join their musical experiments in a basement under Sao Paulo's Teodoro Sampaio Street. As teenagers, the trio had already been playing together in Hermeto Pascoal's Grupo, alongside guitarist Toninho Horta and saxophonist Nivaldo Ornelas, and it was while working together