Grupo Um - Starting Point LPThe 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

Track after track (mostly titled after episodes of Art Clokey's slyly Buddhist TV masterwork

all elevate this album into something that’s so helplessly charismatic

“Play out

each artist "hungry for each sound

punk or otherwise

This was Maajun

" As the piece expands further the listener will hear "cows munching grass

etc) studio

hallucinatory improvisation of the synthesizers

Over the years the song has grown in length and intensity

which finds a midpoint between the late 80s/early 90s scorched earth underground of Siltbreeze & Xpressway and a more European tradition of avant / neo folk volksmusik

the first album by a group which would record -- two