![]() The first musical manifestation of Tropicalia was the 1968 album entitled Tropicalia, ou Panis et Circenses, which included recordings by Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, Nara Leao, Gal Costa and Os Mutantes. (We want everything to be politically radical, don't we?) The band's core consisted of three "politically alienated teenagers" - Arnaldo Baptista (born in 1948), his younger brother, Sergio (1951), and Arnaldo's childhood sweetheart, Rita Lee Jones (1947) - all of whom came from Pompeia, a relatively well-off neighborhood in Sao Paolo, the richest and least typical of Brazilian regions, and they formed their band just two years after the ouster of the country's Leftist President, Joao Goulart, and his replacement by Brazil's military forces, which first installed Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco (1 April 1964 to 1967), Artur da Costa e Silva (1967-1969), and then Emilio Garrastazu Medici (1969-1974) as president.įurthermore, Os Mutantes actively participated in Tropicalia (sometimes called Tropicalismo), which was both a form of total art - using elements drawn from gallery installations, the cinema, theatre, poetry and music in an "anthrophagic" manner - and a "syncretic" style of music that (anthrophagically) drew upon and mixed together elements from bossa nova, Bahian folk, Portuguese fado, Afro-Cuban dance music and Anglo-American rock 'n' roll. Of course I can understand why you would think that the Brazilian rock band Os Mutantes ("The Mutants") should be political, that is to say, politically radical. ![]() "To have known rock as something relatively contemptible during the decisive years of our intellectual growth and, on the other hand, to have had bossa nova as the soundtrack of our rebellion signifies for Brazilians of my generation the right to imagine an ambitious intervention in the future of the world, a right that immediately begins to be lived as a duty." - Caetano Veloso (born 1942), Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil. ![]() Os Mutantes Taking a bite of Os Mutantes (Front left to right: Sergio, Rita, Arnaldo.) ![]()
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