Dado - Atras da Luz (Brazil 1984)

Oh boy, look at that cover drawing.  Just look at it.  I've said it before, dreams of space, the romance of interstellar travel. the 'magnificent desolation' (Buzz Aldrin), the fantasy of visiting other stars and galaxies, those big beautiful starships, the promises of my childhood...  Next week it's the 50th anniversary of the moon landing-- can you imagine?  Meaning everywhere in the news you will hear the same comment, what happened to the promise of space travel we grew up on?  Today, older and wiser, I think we have to repeat, and repeat it until everyone understands: let's clean up the earth first before we destroy other planets (or moons).

Anyways, back to the cover-- this one has gotta be promising, right?
Like I've said so many times before too.

A totally unknown album (I hope, for the readers of the blog) that was made in the early 80s but is totally derivative of the classic rock sound of the 70s, with the usual bass plus drums underlying electric keyboards and beautiful-sounding electric guitars: rhythm and lead.  No digital drum machine, nothing else to distract.  Nothing to indicate we find ourselves in such a late year either.  Heavenly, and also with an edge of melancholia, like Pete and Royce.  (I've posted two albums that have been compared to those Greek masters before: Schenderling and Brustna, this is the third.) 

The basic info is here.  Definitely this must have been a one-off, there's no way that in the Duranduranozoic age such a band could have been given a second shot.   But thank you so much for the first shot-- and thank you, collectors of vinyl everywhere, who hunt these treasures out from the nowhere bins, the flea markets, the garage sales, the collections of dead relatives, wherever they may be found, and bring them to greater attention.

On track 8, called Romance, check out that deep 'n' reverbing bass A intro that leads to the aforementioned classic rock sound:





Despite the simplicity of the chord changes-- I think it's A minor, E minor, D minor, F, then F minor, repeat, which later resolves in the chorus to a C-section (haha), the song's emotion and passionately sung, dramatic melody really make this unforgettable.  Truly a live and healthy birth.

The remainder of the music is comparable, both emotionally and stylistically.  A joy entirely.
And a time capsule from a lost age.  The same lost age that included space travel in it, forever fated now to remain in our past...