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2022 reissue, 7″, Munster Records. Open in shrink.
While Celio Balona’s lengthy recording career focused on Brazilian popular music style MPB, this once-rare outing now given a long overdue and much welcome release is about as far from what most would consider ‘popular’ as you might imagine. Not that the sounds don’t reflect what was en vogue at the time, but more to point out the fact that chart-friendliness is married to a real sense of surrealism.
As the cover and title might suggest, inspiration is found, to some extent, in the original Batman series, and specifically its instantly recognisable theme tune. Here, that track is ripped apart, its motifs borrowed and repurposed to craft something that’s altogether out there and yet strangely familiar. A great example of how to experiment without making us realise there’s a daring experiment going on. – Juno