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    Brazilian Buzz

    Apr 02, 2024 2 minutes
    Photography Phil Barker

    BEETRONICS ABELHA TROPICAL FUZZ FIRST PLAY

    Beetronics’ latest offering is described as a ‘Tropical Fuzz’, tropical in this instance relating to tropicália – a type of music from Brazil that merges Brazilian and African rhythms with British and American psychedelic rock and pop, and features lots of fuzz guitar. Beetronics says that the Abelha, which incidentally is

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