In many ways it's surprising that it took until 2015 for Thiago Nassif and Arto Lindsay to meet in person. Lindsay, the legendary no wave musician, had already been in Brazil for a decade, producing albums for some of the country's most revered artists — Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Carlinhos Brown, Marisa Monte — and consistently releasing challenging but engrossing albums of his own.
By then Nassif, a young, Sao Paulo-born producer and songwriter, was already four years removed from his impressive second LP, Praxis, an album packed with the same off-kilter samba, post-punk, and oddball pop that Lindsay had a hand in pioneering.
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