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I’ve been exploring Brazilian music outside the usual prog stuff and found Geração de Som (1978), the debut solo album by guitarist Pepeu Gomes, and now I’m wondering how you all would classify it.

Pepeu was part of Novos Baianos in the early ’70s, a band that mixed Brazilian music with rock in a super loose, experimental way, and this album kind of carries that vibe forward but in a mostly instrumental, guitar-focused direction. It sits somewhere between jazz fusion, Brazilian styles like choro, samba, and baião, and rock, with really technical playing that’s less about shredding and more about feel, phrasing, and rhythm—he even uses a custom instrument (“guibando”), which adds to the whole experimental vibe.

It definitely feels “progressive” in the sense of blending genres, focusing on musicianship, and letting tracks evolve naturally instead of sticking to verse/chorus structures, but at the same time it doesn’t have that big symphonic prog feel (like Yes or Genesis), no big concept or long suites, and it’s way more groove-based and improvisational, honestly kind of closer to a Bruford-type approach.

In Brazil, this album established Pepeu as a top-tier guitarist and showed how electric guitar could really merge with Brazilian rhythms instead of just sitting on top of them.

So I’d love for you all to check it out and share your thoughts. Would you call this prog, prog-adjacent, or just jazz fusion? I’m especially interested in how you draw that distinction beyond the usual US/European context.

Thanks!

(You'll see the whole album here: Geração de Som (1978))

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Although it’s rooted in hard rock and heavy psych aesthetics, in my opinion this album is pure prog in spirit. You can feel that early-70s progressive atmosphere there, the way the tracks are structured and connected prioritize flow, transitions, development rather than conventional/commercial song forms of the time. There’s also a strong “floating in space” vibe there, and abrupt transitions structure sometimes, it reinforces the idea of an album built around exploration rather than traditional rock songwriting. What do you think?

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