This theme was projected onto this album in its lyrics, sound, and artwork. The ideas of Racional Immunization, sorta like a Brazilian take on the back to Africa thoughts of Marcus Garvey that fed a lot of Reggae musicians’ headspace, started to drive an overriding theme for Tim. The beliefs of this half black and half mestizo Brazilian enthralled Tim. He turned to a spiritual group called Cultura Racional, which published a religious tract by an indigenous carioca mystic named Jacintho Coelho.
This physically giant and imposing figure, was getting to a density point where he couldn’t handle all the issues, emotionally and musically that were occurring to him in the the middle of the ‘70s. Tim, was such a rebellious character, that he would try to maximize his wealth and fame by creating his own label and publishing company, at a time when such a thing was way out of the ordinary in Brazil. He was known as the most hard headed artist, picking fights with collaborators, or scrapping takes and re-recording all the parts by himself.
Tim Maia, by then, had always been Brazil’s resident R&B and Funk master…a heady ball of James Brown, Barry White, and Curtis Mayfield.
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