At the age of 85 Augusto Gomes Rodrigues, known as Verequete, is considered the grand old master of carimb�, the local dance music in the region east of the Amazon. In the 1960s he brought this traditional style with African features out of the backwoods into the city Bel�m and modernized it. In his youth he was acclaimed as an innovator; in his old age, as a traditionalist. "Carimb�" will make Verequete's music internationally available for the first time.