Os Mutantes - Os Mutantes (1968 São Paulo, Brazil) | Tropicália / Psych | Vinyl Stream

For today's psychedelic trip this morning I'm spinning the self-titled debut of Os Mutantes - original 1968 Brazilian mono pressing on Polydor, LPNG 44.018. Os Mutantes were three kids from São Paulo - brothers Sérgio Dias and Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee - who landed at the center of one of the most politically charged music movements of the 20th century. Brazil had been under military dictatorship since 1964. By December 1968 the AI-5 decree had removed most of the population's basic human rights. Tropicália was the response - a fusion of samba, bossa nova, psychedelic rock, and avant-garde experimentation that used culture as resistance. Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso led it. Os Mutantes were the wild card. The debut opens with Panis Et Circenses - written by Gil and Veloso specifically for Os Mutantes as a critique of people living complacently under authoritarian rule. What follows is one of the most inventive albums to come out of the late 1960s anywhere in the world. Feedback, tape manipulation, French chanson, bossa nova, fuzz guitar, and orchestrations by Rogério Duprat who had studied with Pierre Boulez in Europe. None of it should work together. All of it does. Full album, both sides. Come hang. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinyl_piper/ Full vinyl rips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj0yF7-9YQ9pEOi1yCUyAZikNmWVdz8Hn Shop: https://vinylpipershop.com/ #OsMutantes #Tropicalia #VinylStream #VinylPiper #MorningStream #BrazilianPsych #RitaLee #PsychedelicRock #RareVinyl #Brazil1968 #Tropicália #GilbertoGil