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Tropicália (A Brazilian Revolution In Sound)

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A1 Gilberto Gil – Bat Macumba A2 Os Mutantes – A Minha Menina A3 Gal Costa – Tuareg A4 Gilberto Gil & Os Mutantes – Domingo No Parque B1 Caetano Veloso – Alfômega B2 Gal Costa – Sebastiana B3 Gilberto Gil – Procissao B4 Caetano Veloso – Irene B5 Os Mutantes – Ave Genghis Khan C1 Jorge Ben – Take It Easy, My Brother Charles C2 Tom Zé – Jimmy, Renda-se C3 Os Mutantes – Ando Meio Desligado C4 Caetano Veloso – Tropicalia C5 Tom Zé – Quero Sambal Meu Bem D1 Gal Costa – Vou Recomeçar D2 Os Mutantes – Panis Et Circenses D3 Tom Zé – Gloria D4 Os Mutantes – Quem Tem Medo De Brincar De Amor D5 Caetano Veloso – Lost In The Paradise D6 Os Mutantes – Bat Macumba - Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound. Tropicalia is one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil encompassing music, film, visual art and theatre. ‘Tropicalia' is the first album to bring together all the key artists involved in the movement – Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Gal Costa and more. The Tropicália movement was born in 1968, a momentous year around the world. It was the year of the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago Convention, the Tet Offensive in Vietnam and the anti-war movement, the student rebellion in France, civil rights, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the birth of the women’s movement. In Brazil, army violence that killed three protesters in the opening months of 1968 failed to keep students from protesting the four-year-old repressive Brazilian military dictatorship. It was against this extraordinary backdrop that Tropicália arrived. As a coherent movement allied to worldwide political and cultural unrest, Tropicália lasted little more than a year, yet it had – and continues to have – a profound effect on Brazilian society. Mixing psychedelic rock, avant-garde musique concrete (tape loops, sound experiments), samba, funk and soul, Tropicália was so radical – and its social implications so politically profound - that its leading protagonists, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were arrested, imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969. Tropicália’s unique ideology mixed high art with mass culture. Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy, a revolution in Brazilian sound with a legacy later to be internationally championed by such diverse artists as David Byrne, Beck, Kurt Cobain, Stereolab, The Bees and Tortoise. Tropicália artists loved the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. They loved such forgotten Brazilian musical radio heroes as Dorival Caymmi, Luis Gonzaga and Orlando Silva as much as they were interested in the avant-garde of John Cage and Stockhausen. The Tropicália artists loved Joao Gilberto even though the rise of Tropicália in many ways resulted in the demise of Bossa Nova, the elegant Brazilian music that had swept to international prominence at the start of the Sixties.

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Release Date

18.11.2005

Cat No

SJRLP118

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