Os Afro-Sambas - Baden Powell & Vinicius de Moraes

Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes wrote these 1966 songs after spending time with the music of Bahian candomblé, and the album shows how bossa nova's guitar language could take on a darker, ritual weight. Listen to Powell's insistent, almost percussive picking on Canto de Ossanha and the chanted chorus on Canto de Xangô: it is the same instrument as bossa nova, used with much heavier force.