Marika Papagika (Μαρίκα Παπαγκίκα)

The music can be a little primitive, but Marika Papagika left a legacy of Greek folk music, rembetika, and light popular music that is unrivaled by very few artists of the day. David Soffa did an excellent job of picking out her most popular recordings primarily from the late 1920's. This is a priceless look at Greek Music in the United States during the 1920's.

(1994) Marika Papagika: 1918-1929 / 320k
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Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho

Paêbirú is an obscure Brazilian psych concept album about the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) that was lost to time in a warehouse fire in 1974, causing it to become a massively sought-after lost classic, fetching up to $1500 for vinyl copies.

This recording of the collaboration between Brazilian artists Lula Côrtes and Zé Ramalho is a wonderfully off-kilter record, full of fantastic hooky and strange tunes that range all over the place, from full-on freakouts to quiet pastoral. The entire range of 1970s hippie Brazilian musician culture is displayed in this record. It’s experimental, but it's relentlessly driven towards fun. If you like good music, you will like this legendary album untouched by time.

The closest comparison might be to combine Amon Düül with Sunburned Hand of the Man and perhaps Double Leopards, if they lived on a commune together in Brazil and recorded while indulging in mass quantities of narcotics.

(1975) Paêbirú / 320k

Os Tincoãs

Os Tincoãs were a Brazilian popular music band from Bahia, primarily active in the 1960s and 1970s. They are named after the Tincoa bird. Surviving member Mateus Aleluia is still very active in singing and songwriting. (wiki)

Primarily samba influenced, with lyrics recurring to candomblé (afro-brazilian religion) imagery.

(1973) Os Tincoãs / 320k

Elomar

Elomar is one of the most personal Brazilian composers. He expresses in music the culture of his region, a part of the northeast that has developed through the centuries a spoken dialect and a musical folklore based in medieval modal influences received by successive waves of European invaders. His production has an ambivalent quality, at the same time unpolished and sophisticated. His violão playing is very authoritative (in his style), as he had classical formation. (amg)

(1973) Das Barrancas do Rio Gavião / 320k

Elomar

(1980) Elomar e Arthur Moreira Lima - Parcelada Malunga / 128k


(1982) Elomar, Arthur Moreira Lima, Heraldo do Monte e Paulo Moura - Consertão / 320k


(1992) Elomar - Árias Sertânicas / 128k

Moreno e Moreninho

This is an impressive finding. Brazilian roots country music, with raw field recordings consisting of slow paced gospel-like mantras and unearthly vocal layers. This could easily be a Folkways release.

(195?) Capelinha de Santo Reis / 192k