Banda Da Capital Live In Brasilia. 1976

Flying the countercultural freak-flag amid the context of military dictatorship, the Brazilian prog lords shared much of the sense of experimentation and bountiful fuzz bequeathed by their tropicalismo forbearers. But armed with genius composers, arrangers and stupendously high-level musicianship, Som Imaginario introduced a potent harmonic complexity to Brazilian popular music, which would inspire generations of artists to come. The recordings of the show would become 'Banda Da Capital', which, for the past half century, has laid dormant, waiting for its mystical power to be untapped.