Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius (1966)

The door into Afro-Brazilian roots. Guitarist Baden Powell and poet Vinicius de Moraes wrote these 1966 songs after immersing themselves in Bahian candomblé and capoeira, and the record has a dark, chant-like gravity unlike the bossa nova Vinicius was known for. Canto de Ossanha is the one to start with: insistent guitar, a call-and-response chorus and a warning in the lyric.