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Empirically speaking, very little is known about Tribo Massáhi’s 1972 afro-psych long player  Estrelando Embaixador . When we  reported  on this release in February, the words of one blogger seemed to sum up the baffled wonder of the record-collecting community quite nicely. As far as the music was concerned, it was simply a record of “candomblĂ©-inspired psychedelic party music, taking the Afro-Brazilian sound into some wild territory… a heady mix of tropicalismo, chimed guitar, conversational chatter, studio fuckery, and heavy percussion with a female chorus.