Os Mutantes : Rolling Stone

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July 20, 2006

Tropicalia Legends Os Mutantes Reunite for U.S. Shows

Brazilian psychedelia pioneers -- with fans from Wayne Coyne to Beck -- promise onstage antics, new music

Recordings and Reviews

Haih or Amortecedor

After releasing a pair of pioneering psychedelic albums in the late 1960s, Brazil's Os Mutantes ("the Mutants") evolved into a noodling prog-rock band and broke up. Haih or Amortecedor, their first new album in 35 years, isn't the gritty collision of Beatles, Picasso and indigenous Brazilian music...

2009 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Biography

Led by Brazilian songwriters Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, tropicalia fused traditional Brazilian folklore with the anarchic spirit of late-'60s rock and protest folk. But there was a side to tropicalia that Veloso and Gil were a tad too tender and poetic to convey: a certain dissonance, a loopy sense of humor, and overt psychedelic tendencies that the trio known as Os Mutantes (Arnaldo Baptist...

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