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The 1001 Albums Challenge # 62: Jorge Ben – “África Brasil”
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The 1001 Albums Challenge # 62: Jorge Ben – “África Brasil”

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Simon Sweetman
May 23, 2018
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He’s known now as Jorge Ben Jor but this record was released when he was still Jorge Ben – though he was born Jorge Duilio Lima Menezes. And though I’d heard of África Brasil I had not, until this challenge, ever heard it. And man it’s a cracker. So good! Reminds me of discovering Arthur Verocai’s self-titled album, which is not to say the albums sounda…

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