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Marco Pereira: Original
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
On my first visit to Rio in 1989, with the WBGO Music and Beaches Tour, I went to a music store where you could play a record first to see if you liked it. Someone suggested Marco Pereira's 1987 Circulo das Cordas, on the Brazilian Som Da Gente label, and when I heard that first track -- Pereira's thrilling, driving “Num Pagode em Planaltina," with its scat-singing introduction and startling use of the “slap" technique -- I didn't needd to ...
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