BRASIL Just as Tim lived his life doing everything the hard way, so went the making of Racional Vol. 3. Only a handful of people knew about the existence of a rumored third volume of Rational recordings until 2007, when some songs appeared on a Brazilian blog, described as the lost Rational recordings, presumably recorded at the end of his time with Rational Culture. Tim Maia Racional Vol. 3 is just as essential an artifact of Tim's time involved in Rational Culture as the first two albums. At the height of Tim Maia's soaring fame, he joined a radical, extraterrestrial-obsessed cult and created two plus albums of some of Brazil's (and the globe's) best funk and soul music. This book explores the career of the man often hailed as the James Brown or Barry White of Brazil, and the time of his radical transformation from a musician notorious for hedonistic living to a devoted follower of Rational Culture. After suddenly joining Rational cult in 1974 (which started first as an offshoot of