Alceu Valenca - Molhado De SuorSought after Brazilian classic originally released in 1974. Reissued again after years unavailable. In the early '70s tropicalia was going strong, a challenge to both the music establishment and the state. Msica Popular Brasileira (or MPB) was firmly established. Up in the northeastern corner of Brazil, centered in Recife, was another exciting strain of Brazilian culture called Udigrudi. "Molhado De Suor" is the first solo effort by Alceu Valena,

If it’s an album that resists easy summation

jazzy groover "Sunlight"

Mark Stewart says: "Context is crucial

stretching out

Sidelong Om Namah Sivaya beams with probing organ improvisations accompanied by the drumming of her 13-year-old son Aruna John Coltrane

Don't say we didn't warn you

The band channel the music

deserves to be better known than his son

the Heartbreakers

Time Out London

Presented on audiophile transparent clear vinyl with a CD included

her sound more readily evokes a top-down perspective