Acabou Chorare

Living in a Rio commune, the musicians combined rock attitudes with local percussion under the mentorship of Joao Gilberto. The result avoids the rigidity of studio craft for something akin to an unscripted, sunlit gathering.

Emerging during a time when Brazilian creators pushed every boundary, the record mixes samba and baiao with psychedelic guitar tones. It represents a brief, happy era in MPB history where the division between folk roots and new ideas vanished.