
Allthough i must have listened to "a thousand of classical" MPB-songs" by now, from "Caetano to, eh, Bebel", hehe..., the manguebeat of Chico Science & Nação Zumbi's "Da Lama ao Caos" was actually my introduction to brasilian music, believe it or not! I had a brazilian girlfriend at the time, and made a trip all the long way from Sweden to the magical space of the aeroplane-shaped capital Brasilia, to watch Lenine, live... in the permanent circus-tent, and in the pause i was introduced to another wonderful brasilian musical genre called "forró" (ahh, [...]