Os Barbapapas - EnigmaEnigma is the first studio album by the spaceage, glass harp powered, tropicalia quartet Os Barbapapas. Understandably, those adjectives could invoke images of kitschiness in one's mind; that concept is smashed by the ice cold shot of Brazilian jazz riffing in the album's opener and first single, "Se Liga Na Sequncia". Os Barbapapas trapeze the vast richness of Brazilian South American music heritage and beyond, as a collective with members who have

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