3 Sessions in a Greenhouse

On the 15th anniversary of its original release, Mais Um revisit a lost classic fromthe catalogue of one of Brazil's most regarded and influential contemporarysongwriters, Lucas Santtana. Presented on vinyl and on streaming platforms forthe first time ever (remastered by German dub shaman, Stefan Betke/Pole) andfeaturing Tom Zé and manguebeat pioneer, Gilmar Bola 8, Lucas Santtana's 3Sessions In A Greenhouse fused psyched-out samba and baile funk with originalBlack Ark-style studio distortion and spiritual dub dread, laying the foundationsfor his seminal Sem Nostalgia LP five years later, and in the process,establishing Santtana as an elemental force of Brazil's current new wave.

"At the beginning of my career, I was experimenting, trying to figure out mysound. On 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse, I discovered what I am and what Iwanted to do in music. All the pieces connected. Everything just felt like the rightplace at the right time."

Comprising four originals and four Santtana/Seleçao Natural dubs (plus a CDbonus track), 3 Sessions In A Greenhouse was and is a sound clash unlike anyto have come before. Produced by Santtana and Recife's dubsetter himself, Buguinha Dub, each session was approached as an opportunity not to justrecord each instrument but to create an environment in which the studiobecomes the centrepiece. Recorded and mixed entirely live as a group, with nooverdubs, 3 Sessions' feels uniquely intimate and relaxed (best typified by theband's 'chat' in-between recordings). Tropicalia Icon Tom Zé features onSanttana's slightly zippier version of Zé's samba dub Ogodô Ano 2000 andAmerican journalist Phylis Huber's reading of an extract of Virgina Woolf's TheWaves on the expansive 9min-long Balearic/afrobeat dub A Natureza Espera, is

poignant and trippy. Santtana's take on Naçao Zumbi's Pela Orla Dos VelhosTempos, featuring original member and percussionist Gilmar Bola 8 on vocals,takes on techier references of the Detroit type, whilst vinyl closer Into Shade is asumptuous psych rock dub ballad, co-written by Arto Lindsay.