A long hard look at Brazil... part 8

Edu Lobo got his break in 1971 with the fun Sergio Mendes presents Edu Lobo LP – for years my go-to Edu album. It's filled with jazz tinged earwurms, lots of hooks and catchy rhythms and basslines. So catchy that sometimes they lyrics are just scatted accompaniment to the melodies, you don't need more.

A while ago I came across his Missa Breve album, which has now overtaken the other record. It's still jazz tinged, catchy (but slightly less so). Edu's going for something a little deeper here. Side B is an imagination of the Latin Catholic mass – you see what I mean. That side is like a suite, sections segueing into one another. But he pulls it off. It's evocative music. I can see images accompanying the music. Not images of sitting in catholic mass either, which is a plus. Nature, flying, mountains... (you know, all the clichés that signify freedom).

'Vento bravo' from the songbased side A.