Jards Macalé – Jards Macalé
Vinyl rip in 24 bit 96 khz | Art at 300 dpi
24 bit 96 khz – 927 MB | 16-bit 44.1 khz 235 MB
Polysom 33124-1| Released 2012 (Orig.1972) | Brazilian / Post-Tropicália / Samba / Soul – Funk
This record seems to fit the mood right now. It is, somehow, a demonstration of how to remain calm while everything falls apart around you. Brazil is very close to electing an right-wing extremist so repugnant that I don’t even want to name him here, and the US senate is poised to send the definitive reaffirmation, backed by a few thousand years of patriarchy, that women are still the property of men and do not deserve to be heard in the public sphere. There might not be anything specifically political about this record, but it captures a kind of quiet perseverance, wrapped in melancholy, that are in so many of the best records from this period – the worst, most repressive years of Brazil’s military dictatorship. Continue reading
