Menahan Street Band & Rogê: Tropical Man LP

It's the origin story for a Samba Super Hero: Rog?, a mild-mannered sambista, is accidentally exposed to intense levels of funk and transforms into "Tropical Man"! The song isn't his first collaboration with Tommy "TNT" Brenneck, the producer behind Budos Band, Charles Bradley, Molly Lewis, and Menahan Street and more, but it's the perfect introduction to the Brazilian singer, songwriter and guitarist. Building off of last year's "Curyman", Rog?'s international debut on Diamond West Records, the "Tropical Man" 12" EP documents one insane night in the studio with the Menahan Street Band as they unlock a previously unreachable hybrid of samba and soul music. In addition to a few different mixes of "Tropical Man", the 12" EP features two versions of "Mis Filos," a slinky mid-tempo ode to Roge's children that could easily pass for a previously undiscovered early-1970s slice of syncopated, soft-psych samba soul.