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Mutantes | 
 enlarge | Artist: Os Mutantes
Label: Omplatten Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $25.39
New (3) Used (6) from $19.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 66709
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 667336000229
EAN: 0667336000229
ASIN: B00000IABL
Release Date: March 23, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Import - New - Sealed - Label: Universal Brasil, Release: 1992 - Tracking List Available... More info under request.
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| Tracks:
| • | Dom Quixote - Os Mutantes, Baptista, Arnaldo | | • | Nao Va Se Perder por Ai - Os Mutantes, Loyola, Roberto Laf | | • | Dia 36 - Os Mutantes, Dandurand, Johnny | | • | Dois Mil E Um - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Algo Mais - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Fuga No. II - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Banho de Lua (Tintarella di Luna) - Os Mutantes, Jorge, Fred | | • | Rita Lee - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Magica - Os Mutantes, Os Mutantes | | • | Qualquer Bobagem - Os Mutantes, Ze, Tom | | • | Caminhante Noturno - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita |
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Os Mutantes's second album begins with a fanfare that gives way to a pastoral melody that, in its turn, shifts into a rocking, Beatles-esque groove. All this during the first track, "Dom Quixote," a thinly veiled remembrance of the group's TV debut, which was controversial in a late-'60s Brazil ruled by an oppressive military regime. (The Tropicalia movement the group helped lead was hardly admired by the country's leftists, either.) The music's romanticism is smartly displayed here, too, on "Qualquer Bobagem" and "Fuga No. II," the latter linking Indian-based psychedelia with a glorious Left Banke-style chorus. --Rickey Wright
Album Details
Re-issue of the Tropicalia Rebelious Rock Band from the Late 60's which Changed the History of Rockmusic in Brazil.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 vive Mutantes! January 6, 2009
The cover depiction of two matadors and a bride, guitars in hand and howling into microphones is pretty apt for this album.
Within the first few minutes a roaring crowd, angelic voices, funky guitars, flutes, "Bohemian Rhapsody"-style vocals, and swirling psychedelic march music replace eachother one-by-one, in a deliberately disorienting collage of craziness. No, the 1960s greatest nonconformists weren't the dour-yet-stoned Pink Floyd, nor smoky southern pacifist blues-bikers The Allman Brothers, nor the dandy incense-and-peppermints set, nor students of the Maharishi, nor even the art-damaged Velvets. They were from Brazil.
A group that has been long known to the sample-happy Beck and the cosmopolitan funkateer David Byrne, Os Mutantes evaded the radar of most of the English-speaking world. Psychedelic tropicalia in Portuguese, anyone? Byrne corrected this oversight somewhat with the "Everything is Possible!" compilation on his own boutique label, Luaka Bop -- a tasty sampler that draws heavily from the classic lineup of the first three Mutantes albums.
The core trio that would record the most classic and revered albums of the Os Mutantes canon stormed out of the gates with their debut self-titled album, a twisting and invigorating blast of South American funk, distorted guitars and sweet ballads.
The second album, "Mutantes," finds the band stretching out even further, delivering two instant classics: Fuga N II and the crawling flanged-and-processed vocals of Dia 36. Besides those immediate treasures, there is the hard charging Nao Va Se Perder Por Ai (which gives Magical Mystery Tour-era recordings a run for their money); the breathy, percolating Algo Mais, with its wicked bent-note descending guitar figure; trumpet fanfares, sawing electric fiddles that would make Papa John Creach proud, fearless psychedelic sound effects and sonic trickery, sweetly layered harmonies, and more.
Imagine a young, Latina Grace Slick fronting a supergroup formed from Santana and The United States Of America, anticipating Sergeant Pepper-era Beatles (but just a touch more sinister), and playing it all at hyperspeed. You're beginning to get the idea.
Don't worry if you can't speak Portuguese -- I can't either, and it has never once hampered my enjoyment of these headlong, mindbending records.
Power freaky psychedlic power pop from Brazil... October 7, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Os Mutantes created some of the most fun, melodic, and rhythmic music of the 1960s Brazilian music scene. Two men and a red-headed woman (which apparently caused some scandal at the time; apparently some people wondered what a nice sweet girl was doing with two "bizarre" men) named Rita Lee pounded out some incredibly inventive and catchy pop music that integrated Brazilian music with western psychedelic pop. The results often surprise. Sometimes they shock.
The transition from "Dom Quixote" (an ominous pastiche of vocals intermixed with canned crowd noise and orchestra) to the infectious "Nao Va Se Perder Por Ai" features Rita Lee (at least, I think it's Rita Lee) screeching high-pitched into a false start. The music never lets up. From deliciously creepy mellow music dripping with effects ("Dia 36") to happy skippy staccato rhythms featuring lyrics about astronauts ("Dois Mil E Um") to power pop ("Algo Mais") to all out freaky psychedelia ("Magica") the album pleases at every turn with sounds, words, and harmonies.
Os Mutantes liked to blend sounds with their music. For example, the parlour piano-driven story of Rita Lee's pursuit of love ("Rita Lee") breaks into sounds of Rita laughing and kissing following the blessed moment. For the chorus the harmonies go right into the nasal cavities producing a high-pitched singing animal timbre.
Mutantes kept recording throughout the 1970s, but the core group had dispersed. This group left behind three amazing albums, "Os Mutantes", "A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado" and this one. PolyGram released all three classics in 1999, but sadly, they appear to have gone out of print. Hopefully someone will revive this series and make them permanently available. Very little pop music ever reaches this level of fun, spontaneity, and catchiness. And all of this during the rule of a brutal military regime in Brazil.
Lastly, the band photo on the back of the CD case really makes it all worth it.
Open Minds and Good Times March 22, 2004
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
The buffoon who wrote the last review is obviously a little bitter, as he is hiding in the kitchen at one of the best parties I have ever been invited to: Os Mutantes. Everyone is welcome, regardless of colour and creed, but bring a bottle (or something stronger)...
If Beethoven were still around, I'm sure he'd find this album an intriguing listen (provided he could hear it). I sure that he wouldn't just dismiss it, anyway: its sophistication lies in its rough edges, clashing sounds and joyous experimentation, so it's not just background music for a chin-stroking session, or inoffensive classical music for pseudo-intellectuals (like our friend below).
Why is this cd $55?!
 arty garbage April 26, 2002
3 out of 93 found this review helpful
my son gave me this CD. It's all a bunch of silly noises. Ok if you think mickey mouse cartoons are high art, I'll stick to Beethoven, thanks.
Brazilian-Portuguese Craziness January 31, 2002
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been all over the world and have taken this album with me everywhere. Never gets old. Always gives you a great rush. The extreme example of good musical entertainment. If you have an open mind, regardless if you understand portuguese or spanish which if you know spanish you can pick up alot. Open minded, music lovers, explorers NEED THIS ALBUM AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I left my everything is possible CD with my friend Vicente in Sevilla, Spain and couldn't get it back. However, Os Mutantes second album is off the hook. Transcends time and space, if it was a woman I would buy the ring tomorrow. Um, Doish, Traish order it! Dois mil e um is my favorite track on the Cd however Qualquer Bobagem coupled with Noturno Caminhante is a one two closing punch. It'll knock you silly boy! I'm not crazy and I'm not obsessed. These guys are great...
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