"Nana Imboro," from JOSE PRATES' "Tam... Tam... Tam...!" — one of the rarest records in Brazilian music, reissued by 〈TRUNK RECORDS〉. It's a 1958 album made when Polish producer MIECIO ASKANASY traveled to Brazil and worked with composer JOSÉ PRATES and company. There's something operatic, almost musical-theater about it, but also polyrhythms, an earthy indigenous feel, big band jazz and orchestra. An astonishing track that seems to blend Afro-Brazilian spirituality of the Candomblé variety with a Western spirituality that's neither Latin American nor African. The version by the Polish jazz outfit WROBLEWSKI JAZZ QUINTET — presumably connected via MIECIO ASKANASY — is fascinating too. (Original Japanese text by Saito)