O site Ratyourmusic montou um Top 5 Mil dos melhores álbuns de todos os tempos: Paêbirú - Caminho da Montanha do Sol (1975), de Zé Ramalho e Lula Côrtes, teve seu lugar garantido.Na lista, o disco (classificado nos gêneros Psychedelic/Folk/Free/Jazz/Brazilian), recebeu 183 votações e ficou colocado na posição 947.
Na frente de Live From Royal Albert Hall (1998), do Spiritualized, Amon Düül II, do Yeti (1970), e do primeirão dos Stooges (!), de 1969.
E "atrás" de Screaming for Vengeance (1982), do Judas Priest, que ocupa o lugar 939, e Natty Dread, do Bob Marley (1974), no 935. Na categoria "Ano", Paêbirú foi eleito em trigésimo primeiro lugar (31), na lista dos discos realizados no mundo, no ano de 1975.
Simbolicamente, o resultado é merecido para Paêbirú - peça sonora que, no seu país de origem, permanece tão misteriosa quanto para os estrangeiros...
A seguir, leia depoimentos e impressões de algumas pessoas sobre o raro álbum (o LP original, da Rozemblit), compiladas do site da Rateyourmusic.
E, no post abaixo, fique com a reportagem especial que o programa Conexão Converse (dos eternamente clássicos All Star) fez sobre a edição do documentário Nas Paredes da Pedra Encantada, dos jornalistas Cristiano Bastos e Leonardo Bomfim.
Revollak
"Aqui sim! Psicodelia terrena em solos brasileiros. Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho dão a cartilha do que é psicodelia nordestina e detonam com um disco maravilhoso, de sons regionalistas e psicodelia que atravessa qualquer plano que se possa ter chegado aqui por estas terras. Eles vão muito além do que outros fizeram por aí, vide as experiências "cogumelanas" vividas empiricamente e registradas neste disco. O Zé Ramalho, já no resquício deste disco, e ainda parceria com Lula Côrtes, relembra, no primeiro disco solo de 78, em "Danças das Borboletas", o que faziam por aqui. Vale cada nota, cada arranjo, cada experimento, toda a parceria"
"Esse disco foi um 'soco no estômago' ouvir do começo ao fim e ver toda aquela viajem sendo desenhada, incrível. No geral Zé Ramalho sempre foi incrível"
Docperkins
"Côrtes and Ramalho took the torch where Caetano Veloso had left with his classic 1972 album Transa and, walking on its footsteps, set out to release, less than three years later, this landmark in "prog-baião" titled Paêbirú. In my view, Ramalho never made something half as good. Highly recommended"
UIy
"Unjustly ignored, Lula Côrtes and Ze Ramalho's Paebiru is a freak-folk masterpiece. It starts with the 13-minute 'Trilha De Suma' which at first sounds like an American-Indian ceremony mixed with a lively Middle Eastern folk-tune, but then turns to frantic tribal campfire jam, and then finally to a sensual folk-jazz melody. And that's just the beginning. The dreamy 'Harpa Dos Ares', that feels like a splash of sun-rays amidst some nature scenery, leads very nicely to the narcotic landscape of 'Nao Existe Molhado", and then to the dilated diffraction of 'Omm'. Then the electrifying jam 'Raga Dos Raios' leads to the feverish acid-garage 'Nas Paredes Da Pedra' and 'Louvacao A Iemanja' (which after a choral singalong proceeds to a psychedelic raga-rock accompanied by sound effects), and then to the Latin/ Middle-Eastern mixture "Pedra Templo Animal" (propelled by a funky bassline), while the evocative ending 'Sume' feels like looking-back on a long journey"
Wago
"A masterpiece of free and dilated folk, halfway between psychedelia and progressive, Paêbirú is an exceptional album which has to be brought back from the oblivion it fell into because of its provenance. It's quite close to Bruce Palmer's "The Cycle he is Complete", so much that it could be considered its Latin American counterpart: folk, tropicalism, jazz and raga-rock merge creating timeless sound islands, made out of musical phrases which flutter just hinted at, destructured but frantic jams drenched with psychedelia, and a lot of melancholy. Paebiru is one of those albums where the original vinyl is so rare that you could almost doubt its existence. If it wasn't for these sites that obsessively chart world-psychedelic music this album would probably have been forgotten about and certainly never been reissued"
MH 1000
"Psychedelia is a genre that is so broad that you really do have to have sub-genres to even consider exploring it. The world-psychedelia sub-genre is definitely one of the more interesting ones to venture into. In this area you tend to have more of a funky organic thing going on, than the usual acid-rock and acid-folk thing you're more used to. I've only just started in this area, and can't wait to dive into all these African, South American, European and Asian gems. Back to the album. I don't know too much about Paebiru other than it's Brasilian, was originally made in 1975, is something to do with a trip though the rain forest and is totally gorgeous to listen to. It comes in four sections, which makes sense as it was originally a double album, and each section (I think) relates to an element. There is a section called 'Fogo', and this has some of the best out-there guitar work I've heard. I'm not big on noisy guitar solo stuff, but on here it's exploratory and free without being rocky and indulgent. The album seems to be written in a very celebratory mood and because of this is a very joyous listening experience. I suppose if you were sitting in the middle of the rain forest looking for inspiration you couldn't help but be inspired in a celebratory way. I must explain here though that I can't understand a word they are saying, and for all I know they could be saying chop the whole place down and build a motorway. Judging buy the artwork though it looks more like they took some rain forest grown herb and were just celebrating the spiritual beauty of the whole thing.In short this is a great album that both jazzers and rock-heads will be into, definitely worth having in your collection"
UIy
"Unjustly ignored, Lula Côrtes and Ze Ramalho's Paebiru is a freak-folk masterpiece. It starts with the 13-minute 'Trilha De Suma' which at first sounds like an American-Indian ceremony mixed with a lively Middle Eastern folk-tune, but then turns to frantic tribal campfire jam, and then finally to a sensual folk-jazz melody. And that's just the beginning. The dreamy 'Harpa Dos Ares', that feels like a splash of sun-rays amidst some nature scenery, leads very nicely to the narcotic landscape of 'Nao Existe Molhado", and then to the dilated diffraction of 'Omm'. Then the electrifying jam 'Raga Dos Raios' leads to the feverish acid-garage 'Nas Paredes Da Pedra' and 'Louvacao A Iemanja' (which after a choral singalong proceeds to a psychedelic raga-rock accompanied by sound effects), and then to the Latin/ Middle-Eastern mixture "Pedra Templo Animal" (propelled by a funky bassline), while the evocative ending 'Sume' feels like looking-back on a long journey"
Wago
"A masterpiece of free and dilated folk, halfway between psychedelia and progressive, Paêbirú is an exceptional album which has to be brought back from the oblivion it fell into because of its provenance. It's quite close to Bruce Palmer's "The Cycle he is Complete", so much that it could be considered its Latin American counterpart: folk, tropicalism, jazz and raga-rock merge creating timeless sound islands, made out of musical phrases which flutter just hinted at, destructured but frantic jams drenched with psychedelia, and a lot of melancholy. Paebiru is one of those albums where the original vinyl is so rare that you could almost doubt its existence. If it wasn't for these sites that obsessively chart world-psychedelic music this album would probably have been forgotten about and certainly never been reissued"
MH 1000
"Psychedelia is a genre that is so broad that you really do have to have sub-genres to even consider exploring it. The world-psychedelia sub-genre is definitely one of the more interesting ones to venture into. In this area you tend to have more of a funky organic thing going on, than the usual acid-rock and acid-folk thing you're more used to. I've only just started in this area, and can't wait to dive into all these African, South American, European and Asian gems. Back to the album. I don't know too much about Paebiru other than it's Brasilian, was originally made in 1975, is something to do with a trip though the rain forest and is totally gorgeous to listen to. It comes in four sections, which makes sense as it was originally a double album, and each section (I think) relates to an element. There is a section called 'Fogo', and this has some of the best out-there guitar work I've heard. I'm not big on noisy guitar solo stuff, but on here it's exploratory and free without being rocky and indulgent. The album seems to be written in a very celebratory mood and because of this is a very joyous listening experience. I suppose if you were sitting in the middle of the rain forest looking for inspiration you couldn't help but be inspired in a celebratory way. I must explain here though that I can't understand a word they are saying, and for all I know they could be saying chop the whole place down and build a motorway. Judging buy the artwork though it looks more like they took some rain forest grown herb and were just celebrating the spiritual beauty of the whole thing.In short this is a great album that both jazzers and rock-heads will be into, definitely worth having in your collection"
