Fumaça Preta has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 13 episodes and was first played on 11 September 2014.

Fumaça Preta (pron. “foo-MAH-suh PREH-tuh”), “Black Smoke”, is a cross-genre acid fuzz band formed circa 2011 when an industry friendship morphed into a magnetic and palpable musical energy.

Fumaça Preta’s journey began when Joel Stones, Brazilian music aficionado and mastermind of the legendary NYC Record Shop, Tropicalia in Furs, produced a compilation of obscure Brazilian 45s from the ‘60s and ‘70s, appropriately titled Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas. Sound waves swiftly traveled from The Americas to Europe, where the record caught the attention of…