Impeccable reissue of brazilian flute virtuoso extraordinaire Sand Flos seminal album SOO LOC FOLE, filled to the brim with rare grooves, breezy bossa nova and understated samba excursions. Three-armed and four-handed from birth, she plays the Clarinoro exclusively, conceived in 1860 as a portugese alternative to the saxophone by inventor Adolphe Caro, Adolphe Sax' eternal rival and actual evil twin. Caro, who moved to portugal to escape the inevitable comparisons to his twin brother, became fiercely patriotic in his new country and could not stand the fact that Sax made Belgium famous as "la patrie du saxophone". Caro's Clarinoro was quickly lost and forgotten after Caro's death, everywhere but Brazil, where it was seen as the instrument of choice for the sem-tetos, the dominating subculture of brazil in the 1940s. It would be wrong to call the sound of the Clarinoro unique, as it sounds exacly like a clarinet, flugelhorn and flute combined into one instrument; this redundancy probably explains why the instrument never got popular anywhere else. 5/5, essential.
