Quannum’s Brazilian boy wonder Luciano Nakata Albuquerque (Curumin) made a splash with his 2005 debut, Achados e Perdidos, which was chock full of organic favela club bangers, psychedelic garnishes and hip-hop trimmings. It’s his follow up JapanPopShow where he lets the waters gently ripple with a heady m’lange of dub spices, lounge grooves, cooled down samba, more hat tipping to his nation’s music of the ’70s from the likes of Os Mutantes, Jorge Ben, and early Caetano Veloso. Curumin’s Portuguese crooning rides gently over the instrumentation, most of which he did himself, blending in a kitschy mix of vintage organs. One of the album’s most chic and funkified moments comes when underrated guitarist and label mate Tommy Guerrero throws down on the lazy day sun soaking semblance of ‘Sambito (Totaru Shock)’. For the growing legions of youngin’s pilfering through the dusty crates at used record stores seeking the most obscure and debonair sounding South American pop from more than three decades ago, JapanPopShow is a contemporary release suffice to tickle your fancy for the rest of the year.

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