Grupo Vice Versa was a studio band assembled for two days of sessions to record Hermeto Pascoal's Viajando Com o Som in 1976. Taking their name from Rogério Duprat's Vice Versa Studios in São Paulo, this all-star studio assemblage included multi-instrumentalist Pascoal's rhythm section of the era -- Zé Eduardo Nazario (drums), Zeca Assumpção (bass), and Lelo Nazario (electric piano) -- saxophonists Mauro Senise, Raul Mascarenhas, and Nivaldo Ornelas, guitarist Toninho Horta, and vocalist Aleuda Chaves. After assembling for a one-off gig at Teatro Bandeirantes that became an almost spiritual experience for the composer. Pascoal wanted to capture their particular musical connection in a recording studio. Sound engineer Renato Viola understanding that Pascoal's process was to capture everything quickly and used the first take of almost everything in these sessions for the final mix. Lelo Nazario asked Renato to make him a first-generation machine-to-machine copy of all the material. Given the fevered pace Pascoal was working at during the mid-'70s, the sessions were quickly forgotten and the master tape eventually lost. Lelo Nazario kept his copy in his own studio's archives, where it remained for more than 40 years. He rediscovered them while looking for something else. Far Out, in collaboration with Pascoal and Nazario, issued the album as Viajando Com o Som: The Lost '76 Vice Versa Studio Sessions in 2017 as the label's 200th release. ~ Thom Jurek