Tropicalia
 

Have been listening to quite a lot of this stuff lately. An avant-gardist Brazillian thing from the sixties that fuses jazz, poetry, funk and rock, with a definite political edge. Key artists are Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes. Really wonderful stuff. I was just wondering if anyone else likes it and/or knows anything more about it.

edit: just found a really nice website dedicated to it:

http://www2.uol.com.br/tropicalia/

edit2: just looked through and depite having an English/Brazillian option 90% of it is in Portugese.

yeah! i have some caetano veloso and gilberto gil LPs and 45s as well as an awesome tropicalia compilation put out by soul jazz records.

you should check out the "+2" series. it features the son of caetano and it feels almost like an extention of tropicalia.

Thanks for that, I ordered the Soul Jazz comp yesterday so I should get it tomorrow(ish).

Yes, me likey. The nauseous Beck once tried to jump on this bandwagon with a song called (what else?) "Tropicalia".

nothing new here.

LOL. Yeah, I heard about that. Needless to say I've tried to avoid it like the proverbial.

beautiful album covers too:

http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthr...ght=tropicalia

http://sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthr...ght=tropicalia

A lot of this stuff has been reissued which is nice. The first couple of Gal Costa lps are essential I think. She went a bit patchy after that but there's an lp with a lady in bikini showing major camel toe on the front which has one killer track on if I remember correctly.

I think it's her second and third albums that I am thinking of and not the first and second. I don't think I've heard the first. The other one I mentioned was India.

Oops sorry. Seems like every summer some new convert starts a Tropicalia thread.:o

i've got the first and second, they're both superb.