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Allen Thayer
December 10, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
FreeAt the height of Tim Maia’s soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two-plus albums of some of Brazil’s – and the globe’s – best funk and soul music. Allen Thayer’s Tim Maia’s Tim Maia Racional Vols. 1 & 2 (Bloomsbury), explores the career of the man often hailed as the James Brown or Barry White of Brazil, and the time of his radical transformation from a musician notorious for hedonistic living to a devoted follower of Manoel Jacinto Coelho’s Rational Culture. Thayer explores this strange, yet incredibly prolific period of Maia’s life wherein the reigning soul and funk artist of Brazil produced two albums, an EP, and a recently unearthed tape containing almost another full album of funky jams laced with spiritual content and scripture.
[from Powell’s website]