YE MELE / BERIMBAU by LUIZ CARLOS VINHAS / GOLDEN BOYS

'ye mele' opens with a distinctive vocal harmony/chant and claps before dropping into bossa piano, organ and drums, which calms for a moment before reaching the chorus… and then building more into a horn section, that plays until the end. Taken from Vinhas’ now relatively expensive and very excellent ‘O Som Psicodelico’ LP from 1968. 'Berimbau' opens with what is very reminiscent of a Brazilian Western soundtrack, before soaring into vocals, strings and horns. And then THAT end section…! Golden Boys were a male vocal group, of brothers. ‘Berimbau’ is taken from their self-titled 1969 LP.