Rare and highly sought after in its original format, Os Brazões self-titled album was originally released on RGE Discos in 1969. It is a psychedelic masterpiece that fuses samba, r’n’b and rock ’n’ roll influences using fuzz guitars, synths, percussion, lush vocals and effects. Os Brazões formed in Rio de Janeiro in the late 1960’s. They backed Gal Costa during her Tropicalia period, yet apparently never recorded in the studio with her. Miguel de Deus, the bands front man, recorded the highly sought after Black Soul Brothers LP in 1977, which became an important record in the ‘Black Rio’ movement...

Os Brazões is the self-titled 1969 album from this Brazilian psychedelic foursome. Oddly enough, as weird and out of time as you'd think this would sound now, it actually still works incredibly well. Long out of print and incredibly rare to get hold of, even in Brazil, this album offers a little taste of a bizarre side of the swinging '60s.

It's hard not to get caught up in the infectious sound. It's a little slice of obscure '60s Brazilian psychedelic that is well worth checking out if you're looking for, oddly enough, something new.

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Nick Smithson