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Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes (CD)

By: Os Mutantes (Artist)

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Os Mutantes Artist Snapshot:

Os Mutantes grew out of Brazil's 1960s revolutionary Tropicalia arts movement, influenced by key figures of '60s rock, like the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, avant-garde composers like John Cage, and Brazilian musical styles both contemporary and traditional. The band was a truly odd mix of pop whimsy and conceptual weirdness. Although the Mutantes played a key role in the counterculture happenings of '60s Brazil, they remained in obscurity until the 1990s, when they were championed by the likes of Beck, Stereolab, and David Byrne. The band got together for a brief reunion tour in the early 2000s.

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DISC 1 for Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes (CD) Album By Os Mutantes (Artist)
1   Ando Meio Desligado
2   Ave, Lucifer
3   Dia 36
4   Baby (1971) - (1971)
5   Fuga No. 11
6   Cantor De Mambo
7   Adeus Maria Fulo
8   Desculpe, Babe
9   El Justiciero
10   Panis Et Circenses
11   A Minha Menina
12   Bat Macumba
13   Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour
14   Baby (1968) - (1968)
 

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CMJ (1/10/00, p.25) - Included in CMJ's "New World '99 Top 5" - "...a rediscovered master stroke that catapulted the radical buzz-band from the '60s and '70s into the '90s hip-stream."

Title Note

Os Mutantes: Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee Jones, Sergio Dias.

Compilation producers: David Byrne, Beco Dranoff.

Includes liner notes by Carlos Calado.

Os Mutantes: Sergio Dias, Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee Jones.

Recording information: 1968 - 1971.

To listen to this collection is to know that in the '60s, ground zero for "pure pop genius" was not only located in England or the U.S., but in turbulent, bubbling Brazil. This collection presents the very cream of the crazy cream of Os Mutantes, with 14 tracks hand-picked by Beco Dranoff and David Byrne. While these brilliant, psychedelic recordings are best appreciated in the context of the three albums from which they are mostly culled, the music found here offers a wonderful glimpse of the dynamic pop magic that was Os Mutantes.

There's the purple-hazed crawl of "Dia 36," with Baptista-brand wobbled vocals and bizarre, inverted wah-wah acoustic guitar. There are two versions of the lovely gem "Baby," the 1968 version lulling along to the sound of reverb-vibrato guitar and toy organ while that of 1971 softens a bit, with Jobim-esque nylon-string guitar and piano rolling out a bossa nova rhythm for Rita Lee's English cooing. Fuzz-guitar joyride "A Minha Menina" is simply the definition of "groovy." "Ave, Lucifer" is a shadowy little ode to the devil, with a dire melody and fanfares of horns and strings. This is genius pop that straddles the fence between sincerity and irony with relish.

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