Transamazonica, by Gibão (aka Téo Azevedo), is a remarkable-sounding record and a serious curiosity. It has many of the sonic hallmarks of a Tropicalia record, was published on the primarily-forró label Copacabana but, lyrically, is a celebration of the government Transamazonica project rather than a leftist condemnation. The Trans-Amazonian highway was to connect the northeastern Brazilian states through the Amazon and to other South American countries like Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The highway construction continues today, 48 years later, with only portions of the road being paved. This is due to a series of financial crises in Brazil and the engineering challenges associated with traversing the muddy amazon.
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| Gibão - Transamazonica from compacto - Copacabana (1971) |
