Os Mutantes

In the mid-sixties, cultural musical exchange flowed not only from south to north but also in the opposite direction; while Brazil gifted the U.S. bossa nova, it received a psychedelic sound in return. The Brazilians blended this psychedelia with their own local, tropical sounds, giving rise to a new genre: Tropicália. Os Mutantes were among its earliest pioneers, weaving together all the trends of the era — jazz, blues, the avant-garde, natural soundscapes, distorted guitars (achieved through homemade pedals), and the organ. Minimalism was clearly not their strong suit. The psychedelia here is pushed to the extreme; it feels incredibly raw and, at times, veers into the realm of circus music. Naturally, everything is sung in Portuguese. The record is an intriguing listen, though far from an easy one — at times, it feels as if three different songs are playing all at once. It’s safe to say they had some excellent "dealers" in Brazil!

I mean, there is nothing ostensibly wrong with this album. I can even see why a certain subculture of people would be really into it. But I found it a little opaque and hard to get into. Not my favorite lesson of the experiment.

Yes this band is on acid, no I am not on acid, but if I was I would probably like this more.

fun psych rock

Brazilian music makes an appearance! Really should stick to football. But it’s not unlistenable. Just not more than once. 2/5 9/11/26

Not sure about it. 69s Brazilian.

7 - GOOD

Ola

2.5

I don’t know what happened but I quite enjoyed it. 60s Brazilian psychedelia Bayne one of the best things I’ve heard for the first time in a long time.

I didn't hate it but I also didn't like anything about it.

Released in 1968 this album is classified as Tropicalia. "Tropicália is a unique style which conflates traditional Brazilian music with elements from other genres, ranging from avant-garde to rock 'n' roll." It also has psychedelic and whimsical elements to it. The other genres (primarily Anglo-American and European rock/pop) are quite noticeable. Here are some general comments about the music: - There are lots of samples and found sounds - There is orchestration - There are a lot of different instruments (xylophone, cuica, guitar, keyboards, recorder, horns, whistle) - Their ability to switch genres and styles says a lot for their musicianship Below is a list of the songs with an attempt at a description: Panis Et Cirenses - 60s rock with horns A Minha Menina - Pop with fuzz guitar O Relogio - Trippy French chanson-like then psychedelic rock an Adeus Maria Fulo - Tropicaliea with xylophone and Cuica Baby - Trippy American song with keyboard and guitar Senhor F - Brass band Vaudeville Bat Macumba - Pyschedelic tropicalia fuzzy guitar Le premier bonheur du jour - French pop Trem Fantasma - Recorder then rock with horns (Donovan/Beatles) Tempo No Tempo - The Mamas & The Papas song Ave Gengis Khan - 60s psychedelic rock with organ and fuzz guitar This is definitely an album that one should listen to because it's unique and hard to describe. It took me several listens to and reading about the album to like and appreciate it.

Not totally sure what's going on but I think it's a bit cool?

Brazilian Beatles, but more psychedelic

A fun Brazilian album! Very sixties

I don't speak Portuguese, but I don't think it would help if I did. At it's best moments it sounds a little like The Association, but mostly it's just a mess. 2 stars

Nice artsy music

sweet / strange / shiny / snappy

This album is a bomb of psychedelic joy, hope and energy. In many ways, it doesn't really sound Brazilian. In the Tropicalia/mpb genre there's an imaginary spectrum of Samba<-> Beatles. This definitely leans more on contemporary music coming from Britain and the American west cost. But also contains elements from, well, samba and other Brazilian music genres, French chansons, tin pan alley and much more. More than all, it a euphoric album. The joy of making it shines every second. It's wonderful in It's slopiness. An absolute classic. A very very high 4.

Jännä

Spacy, feels very 60s psychadelic. Not bad but language barrier is hard to overcome. Sounds cool though.

It was fine. Kinda fun south american 60s sound.

Härlig musik, synd att man inte förstår språket. 3,5 av 5.

Surprisingly an experimental group of that ers which didn't sound like complete rubbish. Yeah sometimes the songs repeated and went on too long or faded in and out, and yes I don't understand French. Overall interesting though. A Minha Menina was quite good.

Pretty good, I don't see myself coming back to it

The Mutants.

This album is such a gem, so interesting and hauntingly original. There are lots of little details, mixtures of different gentes (a bit of folk too), and a great psychedelic touch. Many of the songs are also pretty strong, although there is so much experimentation going on too. It’s delicate, joyful, and even beautiful at many moments. I’ve loved it.

A uniquely eccentric, lovely band of fun.

Not for me

Some interesting music mixed with 60s psychedelia schlock. Better than I expected, but I won't go back to it.

A little off the beaten track but enjoyable.

Interesting but dated I think

Strange album, quite interesting though. Will need a second listen.

Like others have said it’s unique in its sound a fusion of other things. Also like others I don’t see myself returning to it.

— Что-то новое и необычное? – Абсолютно. — Что-то, что я стану переслушивать в будущем? – Крайне маловероятно.

Very interesting. Strange, not what I was expecting and odd. I’m not sure what to take from it but I didn’t hate it.

not my stuff

Weird? Sure. Melodic? Sure. Fun? Sure. Bar macumba? Ê ê.

This is quite fun bjorkified

not for me

Þetta er klikkað stuð. Allskonar rugl og mjög frumlegt. Stefna sem við fáum ekki mikið að heyra og því extra gaman af þessu.

Skrýtið og skemmtilegt. Gaman að fá svona plötur.

Haven't heard of them. It was psychedelic in quite a fun way but also wasn't crazy good 2/5

Interesting

Oh wow, there's a lot happening on this record. Before listening I've never heard of this band, but I like the way they corporate the psychedelic sounds of the sixties into an more own style. Sometimes too chaotic,.

every time I almost got into this album, they fucked it up for themselves. kazoo? are you fuckin kidding me

Does deserve to be here. However, sometimes the weird additional sounds got in the way of shaking my ass to this, which brought it from a 4 to a 3

Os Mutantes was killer. Sometimes it was experimental with some really compelling instrumentation and studio edits, other times it was just pretty. Best way I could describe it is like a Brazilian white album.

que sabor! de início, reconhecendo que não é um álbum hiper-palatável ia pensando em dar 4 estrelas, mas ele é tão nostálgico pra mim... tipo top 3 álbuns que eu ouvia na infância! na verdade toda essa jocosidade do tropicalia se misturava com um humor lúdico infantil meu que vem como retrogosto de divertimento ao ouvir isso até hoje.

divertido e inovador, clássico nacional

Quite a welcome surprise. Majestic Mutantes ! Vibes a-plenty

Way cooler than I expected and worth another go around

Strange and psychedelic but a fun listen

Weird but kinda fun

Do you like 60s acid rock? Are you looking to learn Portuguese? Boy do we have a band for you.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ At least half of this mad journey comes across more as a novelty record than stoner-psych greatness. When it works it’s rollicking good fun, but it’s not entirely clear it knows what it wants to be.

One of the seminal south American psychedelic albums. Genuinely really great for the most part but let down ably a couple of meandering tracks.

First song really grated on me 😬 Second was better 3rd nope, hate this Le premier bonheur du jour sounds like they have a runny nose Couldn’t wait for this to be over

3 out of 5. Interesting listen.

Fun!

I recall listening to this when I was going through the 1001 album list the first time. Because I was listening to the list chronologically in the past this got lost within the other psychedelic albums at the time. It is quite a different album and of course things are lost in translation with the lyrics not being in English - but an interesting listen nonetheless. (3.5/5)

Fantastic record, always exciting to revisit. There’s just so many layers to the weirdness that I always find something new to appreciate, and the songs are both beautiful and groovy. 10/10

Late 60s latin rock. Debut by brazilian tropicala band. Mixes brazilian music with psych rock. Pretty weird but fun, refreshingly different.

Fresh and original and very odd, but fun and I enjoyed a good bit of it.

Nâo gosto da batida brasileira, é demasiado alegre para o meu gosto; gosto de música depressiva.

Maybe a 4 with repeated listens?

Love the mid range guitars over the Brazilian acoustics. Surely inspired Manu Chao

Hell yeah. Here for it.

I heard A Minha Menina about 20 years ago and thought it was cool I downloaded it into my iPod (remember those), just the individual track rather than the whole album. Now finally getting round to listening to it, I was struck how it's not as fuzzed out as I thought it might be, given that sound was what initially clicked with me. It's mad as a box of frogs, but it's a fun listen.

Прикольно но не моё чет Хотя усыпило

yes

This Tropicália album feels like sitting at a dinner party where everyone keeps changing the subject, someone suddenly starts playing an instrument, another person interrupts with a strange comment, and nobody seems to notice that the conversation has completely lost its direction. The music jumps between psychedelic rock, Brazilian rhythms, pop, orchestral passages and experimental sound effects, with distorted guitars, percussion, keyboards and studio manipulation constantly appearing and disappearing. Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias shift between melodic singing, harmonies and more theatrical deliveries, adding yet another personality to an already crowded room. It feels quirky, whimsical, weird, eclectic and meandering and unfocused, which makes it difficult for me to connect with. For me, that constant stream of interruptions makes it difficult to settle into any particular song: just when I start following one conversation, somebody else cuts in and takes it somewhere completely different.

5/10

Late 60’s Italian psych-renaissance-folk, with a circus flair — male lead vocal songs were very clown-like; female lead songs were pleasant. Each song also seemed to have 2 distinct halves with different styles. 1.5/5.0

didn't listen fully, seemed like the brazillian beatles

i kind of like how weird this album is but by the end it feels like a bunch of noise to me. could see how this goes triple platinum for stoners

What is this?!!? It’s so weird I want to go 4. But it gave me a headache. 3 Boolean: True, undeniably. Probably good to hear again. Next time I’ll have the aspirin handy.

Some enjoyable bits, some standouts, some hippy nonsense

The beatles have nothing on these guys.

Brazilian psych

Weird, but interesting. I don't regret going through it, but I don't foresee myself wanting to come back to it

Really playful sound. Lots of odd little changes but still very melodic.

I had never heard of this album or band before, so I actually have to form my own opinion this time :0 I believe they're singing in Portuguese, so I don't understand the lyrics, but I normally don't understand lyrics when they're in English either, so that's a non-factor here. Album slaps! I feel like it can be a cop out to be weird just for the sake of being weird, but I think in this case they're being organically weird, which rocks.

Bastante diferente y divertido si se siente la influencia inglesa, pero más que todo

Fun.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

I was pumped when this came up. I listened. It was pretty great, as expected.

Some interesting psychedelic grooves, but on the whole, a bit too experimental and 60s for me.

3.5 or 4

Psychedelic sounds from the land of feijoada. What's not to love?

Sometimes the obscure should be left in obscurity.

This was an interesting ride. 70'S psych rock is not my bag, but the crazy brazilian flavoir lent it a charm. I recognised a couple of tracks and it ticked along fine, but i wont be coming back.

2.3 it was okay

Bom álbum, psicodélico e diferente. Curti

I'm not made for psychedelic rock.

1.64

Some songs were so annoying but others I was vibing with so I feel it’s only fair to put it in the 2.5-3 range.

Not my favorite

It’s creative and you can hear it break some sound barriers but it’s also pretty scattered

There was some interesting things here, some rhythms I liked. Overall, it was a bit too wacky though. 2.5/5