Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das 10 (Society of the Kavernist Great-Order Presents 10:00 Session) is a studio album by singer, songwriter and producer Raul Seixas, singer and songwriter Sérgio Sampaio, singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, theater producer, television presenter and visual artist Edy Star and singer, songwriter and television presenter Miriam Batucada, released on July 21, 1971 by the label Discos CBS and recorded between the last week of June and the first week of July 1971 at CBS Studios in Rio de Janeiro. This album is Raul Seixas’ second record and the debut of Sérgio Sampaio, Edy Star and Miriam Batucada.
Seized about 2 months after its release, the album did not have time for significant sales. Even so, it was well received by the public related to the Brazilian counterculture at the time, as well as from critics identified with this range of the public, such as the poet Torquato Neto and the philosopher Luiz Carlos Maciel. As time went by it became an object of cult interest, mainly because of the collaboration between Raul Seixas and Sérgio Sampaio and for having been out of print for more than 20 years.
Raul was looking for an anarchic and iconoclastic work that would wipe out all the current musical and social conventions. Sérgio, in turn, wanted an album that “stank”, that “disgusted”, in short, an album that made people feel really uncomfortable with it. Thus, both saw in each other the ideal partner to realize this idea: that of a Brazilian conceptual disc, which mixed influences from national and foreign music, shaking the conformism of the Brazilian music scene. Every detail on the album should defy tradition.
They began to compose and send the songs to the government Public Entertainment Censorship Service (SCDP), an obligation so that the songs could be released on record. However, the songs started to be vetoed, either by the use of words classified as “inductive to the use of LSD”, or by the use of words considered difficult by the censors – that they considered that they could contain “messages hidden or metaphors “. Or, yet, the censorship service officials began to systematically reject any song that was signed by Edy: thus, the record company’s public relations asked them not to send any more material signed by him. Therefore, due to these setbacks with the repertoire, Sérgio and Raul had to rescue older songs, such as Chorinho Inconsequente and Session das Dez; in addition to including Soul Tabarôa, by the duo Antônio Carlos and Jocáfi, which was hurriedly invited by Miriam. This ended up disfiguring the initial project, leaving the final version with two songs performed by each one, plus three songs sung together by Raul and Sérgio.
The recording sessions started in the last week of June at CBS Studios, which, since the mid-1970s, had an 8-channel recorder/mixer, and ended in the first week of July, lasting less than 15 days. The most elaborate arrangements were made by Ian Guest and musicians from Renato e Seus Blue Caps and from Lafayette e seu Conjunto were used. In the backing vocals there were Luiz Carlos Ismail, who performed on albums of Roberto Carlos, Leno and some of the Golden Boys.
The album cover features the four kavernists in a photo in front of the screen-stage of Cinema Império, located in Rio de Janeiro. The four are dressed up.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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