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Million Brazilians
12+ albums
psychedelicUSAbeyondwithinportlandmodern mutant
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Portland-based MILLION BRAZILIANS have captured the US Pacific Coast and international imagination through exemplified experimental collaboration to the greatest with works that seem to drift between boundless compositions and focused, energetic improvisations. Patient execution and tone-bending, a-cultural elements add strange shades perfectly complementing to the trances fusing strong individual contributions and energetic interplay through a range of secret jazz, dangerously unassuming drone that embrace a weird sort of transcendence rotating between the endless grooves of esoteric sound sculpting and the boundless creativity of forging a modern musical path through the complexity of subtle realms. The Brazilians early days constantly moved between free jazz, drone, and psychedelic music 'like a Curtis Mayfield jam meets a Raga' as heard on their Psychic Sounds label release "Hideous Visions of Million Brazilians; or layering of loops, flutes, ramshackle percussion, ghostly wails, and knife sharpening as featured on their acoustic Guatemalan influenced Folkways style album of witchcraft, "Cult Music of Ajitz". Shifting into the "New Ideas in Psychic Music" volumes I + II built on these early experiments however adorning a doom-drift configuration that is as spooky as it is hypnotic offering continual freak jazz that devolves into spoken word before diving back into a psychedelic murky sonic brew mode of operation as heard on Sonic Meditation label release of "Sexual Dese
