Arthur Verocai made his name as a songwriter in Rio as far back as 1966; while he was still multitasking as a civil engineer, he was arranging sessions for Marcos Valle and Gal Costa, and producing LPs for Celia. One of the OG eclecticists, he embraced the sounds of pop, soul, jazz and folk across the Americas, developing the sweeping orchestral psych-funk sensibility that led people to compare him to dons of the studio such as David Axelrod and Charles Stepney. In 1972, Continental gave him the green light to record a solo LP which became an instant cult classic, a mix of soul, bossa, samba and funk that was quintessentially Brazilian.
