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Surfing landed me on the Luaka Bop label's site, which released some stuff from Brasilian Experimental/Folk jib jabber Tom Zé, as well as Brazil's Godfather of Soul Tim Maia (youtube documentary clip). Here is what I read:

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TIM MAIA
Once upon a time, a jolly funk pirate named Tim Maia sailed the seas of soul music with a bottle of fun in hand at all times. He was always on the lookout for more members to add to his crew and did his best to convert those around him to the wonders of LSD, going so far as to distribute tabs to everyone at his record label in Brazil (Polygram). Midway thru his career, he joined the cult known as Superior Rational, which convinced its members that UFO's were going to descend on the Earth and deliver believers to the next world. Once again, he began to proselytize his beliefs to those near and far. He even used his music as a vehicle for the cult's message on two albums in 1975-76, and some of those songs are included on our newest World Psychedelic Series compilation coming on May 13th.

Check out this tale of recruitment as told by Tim's longtime friend and A&R rep Nelson Motta: In 1975, a Superior Rational devotee and missionary, Tim announced that he'd sent the sect's records and books (titled The Universe in Disenchantment) to Isaac Hayes, Curtis Mayfield and John Lennon. A reporter speaking with Tim at the time asks "Why?", since the books and records were written and sung in Portuguese. Tim's reply: "The Superior Rational will make them understand."

One month later he got an answer from John Lennon, written on a photo where he was fully naked:

Dear freak,
I don't speak Portuguese. You can LISTEN to this photo.
Love and peace,
John
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...and the reason for this post is a song that Tim Maia may or may not have sung, but who cares it's fuckin good and going to be on the World Psychedelic Classics Vol. 4
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Tim Maia? - Brother Father Sister Mother


Tim Maia - I don't know what to do with myself