MARCONI NOTARO 1973 TIME LAG BRAZIL RAGA PSYCH RE HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

MARCONI NOTARO "No Sub Reino Dos Metazoarios"

TIME LAG label REISSUE of impossibly rare 1973 LP from Brazil

Cover:  Beautiful thick gatefold cover, MINT (4 page insert included)

Vinyl:  Played only a handful of times, so NEAR MINT

Super deluxe and ultra-limited heavy gatefold vinyl reissue of this lost rainforest jungle garage psych headtrip from 1973 by Marconi Notaro.  Several lengthy songs sound like Pink Floyd excursions up the Amazon, while the shorter tracks coulda been great lost garage psych singles that sound 5 or 6 years too late for their time.  "Ah Vida Avida" opens with a duck quack, a cuckoo clock and what sounds like a little girl's music box recorded at the bottom of the ocean, somewhere between Syd Barrett's "Flaming" and the Come And Have Some Tea with the Tea Company album.  From there, we head into a gloriously psychedelic cosmic echoplex bliss-out with freakish synth screeches, like some Buenos Aires barrio boy playing Led Zeppelin's "Black Mountain Side" while Quetzalcoatl himself squeals overhead.  Then there's the sub-murkish sludge punk of "Made in PB," which is closest in spirit to 60's garage music, but only if said garage was covered in 20 layers of cotton gauze and located at the bottom of a bomb shelter.  Wailing guitar leads and a pummeling rhythm section pound out what can only be described as a lethal garage punker if it were recorded with any sense of budget - as it is, it's kinda like hearing Blue Cheer inside a nuclear reactor core, you being on the outside.  Or being almost deaf and going to an MC5 show.  Even the mighty Os Mutantes never got THIS far out, and I think it's safe to say there's really nothing else like Marconi Notaro's album, and you can take that however you want.

The original TIME LAG label VINYL is long out of print, but it's one HEFTY package and will not disappoint.  Here's more in-depth information from the Time Lag site:

"first ever reissue of this totally brilliant post-satwa 1973 brazilian private press featuring the core trio lula cortes, marconi notaro & ramalho. recorded just months after lula & lailson had released satwa, lula was back in the same recife studio with poet and friend marconi notaro to lay down another equally magical album. ramalho, who would go on to record the paberu 2lp with lula two years later, makes his recording debut here as well… somehow amidst the harsh government restrictions of 70s brazil, lula côrtes and his group of artist friends had managed to bypass the authorities and create a hugely creative micro-world of their own, recording, producing, and releasing this album with complete independence. no small feat in and of itself, no doubt, but the music is what makes this slab a true lost masterpiece… the whole album gushes forth with a sun baked spirit of the highest level, mixing tropicalia tinged folk-beat groovers, satwa style bliss trance ragas, pabiru favored lysergic jungle psych, and even a raging fuzz/wah soaked garage psych rocker. extremely mind melting from start to finish, with huge washes of rippling tape delay, electric & acoustic guitars, 12 string, tranced folk percussion, passionate yet mellow vocals, liquid electric bass, acid effects everywhere, and of course lula's mercurial & heart melting tricrdio (an instrument he made himself, something like a sitar/dulcimer hybrid). beautiful, melancholy and joyous all at the same moment, this is an album that after 33 years still sounds completely fresh & unique… sadly marconi passed away in 2000 having lived a life of obscurity even in his own town, yet leaving behind 7 published books of poetry and this stunning, lone album. this reissue has been authorized by maconi's daughter and lula côrtes to insure they receive the credit and funds they deserve, even if it comes 3 decades late… fully reproduced original art, featuring beautiful drawings by lula & layout by katia. heavyweight, old-style, laminated gatefold covers. pressed on 180gm virgin vinyl. original label art. plus a huge full-color 4-page insert featuring fully translated original notes, rare photos and book covers, marconi's last poem written the day before his death, and extensive new notes & biography by lula côrtes."

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