 
VARIOUS ARTISTS Brasilians have a hundred ways of preparing beef there and a hundred variations on the Country & Western theme which makes FESTA DO BRASIL FORRO a very interesting compilation. There's no beef but a fair amount of corn. It does include bad oompah music but also some stinging rock guitar. The second half of the album is given over to an accordeon player, the aptly named Robertinho do Acordeão, and it gets kind of cheesy, I should say repetitious and positively polkacidal, but the first nine cuts, by Coroné Pereira and Toinho da Serrinha, are solid. Part one includes a real gem, "E probido cochilar" with a non-stop pulse and acid rock guitar at the outro. There's a cover of "Sebastiana" made famous by Jackson do Pandeiro that is truly catchy. But, like the carne de sol in those roadside Churrascarias, after 40 minutes that's about all you can stomach at one sitting, and it's time to move on. -- Doctor Rhythm
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