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World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil: The Best Of Os Mutantes/Everything Is Possible! | 
 enlarge | Artist: Os Mutantes
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
Buy New: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 205765
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 093624725121
EAN: 0093624725121
ASIN: B00000J7JI
Release Date: June 8, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Ando Meio Desligado - Os Mutantes, Baptista, Arnaldo | | • | Ave, Lucifer - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Dia 36 - Os Mutantes, | | • | Baby - Os Mutantes, Veloso, Caetano | | • | Fuga No. II - Os Mutantes, | | • | Cantor de Mambo - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Adeus Maria Fulo - Os Mutantes, Teixeira, Humberto | | • | Desculpe, Babe - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | El Justiciero - Os Mutantes, Lee, Rita | | • | Panis et Circenses - Os Mutantes, Veloso, Caetano | | • | A Minha Menina - Os Mutantes, Ben, Jorge | | • | Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes, Veloso, Caetano | | • | Le Premier Bonheur du Jour - Os Mutantes, Renard, Jean Marie | | • | Baby - Os Mutantes, Veloso, Caetano |
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Amazon.com essential recording
"You must take a look at the new land," Os Mutantes singer Rita Lee softly proclaims on Everything Is Possible!'s English-language rewrite of Caetano Veloso's "Baby." The Brazilian psychedelic-rock pioneers were addressing a hoped-for American-British audience, but they could also have been singing to their own country's political establishment, which didn't take kindly to the Tropicalia era's fusion of Beatles and Hendrix influences with elements of bossa nova and samba. The result continues to reverberate more than three decades later in the work of Beck, Stereolab, and Cibo Matto, not to mention on late-'90s reissues such as this. Full of beauty, self-mocking good humor, and a command of varied styles that Lennon and McCartney would've envied, this enticing music is every bit as fresh as it must've sounded to South American swingers back in the day. --Rickey Wright
Album Description
Superb compilation from the Brazilian Psychedelic rockers who added their own spin to the Tropicalia movement that was so popular at the time. 14 tracks including 'Dia 36', 'Cantor De Mambo', 'Ando Meio Desligado' and more. Luaka Bop.
Album Details
Os Mutantes were the Pioneer Brazilian Psychedelic Band in the Late 60's. Compiled by David Byrne from the Remastered Original Tapes.
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 Decent introduction, some rare mixes July 16, 2007
This is a decent introduction to the group. When it came out in the late 1990's, it was crucial, because few people outside of Brazil knew of them. It has good, informative notes, too.
I agree with the reviews that say that this tends towards the poppy at the expense of their louder & more extreme material, and favors the first album at the expense of their excellent second and fifth albums. More importantly, the sequencing is confusing and ineffective. Why not go for straight chronology? Nonetheless, there are no weak tracks here.
Fanatics and collectors of the band may be interested to know that this collection contains some unexplained rare mixes found on none of their other in-print CDs. The mix of "Baby (1970)" is mono and an underdub, lacking a male vocal on the chorus and some percussion--it is distinct from the two other distinct mixes of this performance found on "Jardim Eletrico" and "Tecnicolor". The two songs from the Mutantes' second album, "Dia 36" and "Fuga No. 11", are in gorgeous stereo here and nowhere else. (The album is only available in mono on CD.) "Ando Meio Desligado" is an alternate, short mono mix with an extra couple of bass notes at the beginning. (The other two 1970 songs are featured in mono mixes or fold-downs here.)
 World of Os Mutantes September 22, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It takes a connoisseur of psychedelic rock and pop to know of (drumroll please) Os Mutantes. This short-lived Brazilian band made some of the most memorable psychedelic pop of the 1960s -- which is really saying something. Some of their best work is compiled in "World Psyschedelic Classics 1," although there are some glaring omissions.
This collection brings together many of the band's best songs, such as the understated charm of "Panis et Circenses," the buzzing and swooning keyboard splendor of "Baby," and the cluttered catchiness of "Bat Macumbia." Rooted in Brazilian tropicalia, the music has quite a few quirks and twists, but surprisingly it never becomes too weird to alienate listeners.
Os Mutantes was initially formed by Arnaldo and Sergio Baptista, who later added Rita Lee and their brother Claudio. Though the band didn't last very long, they developed a reputation for twiddling with basic Brazilian pop -- while they stayed happy and accessable, they also added in distortion, feedback, and other sound experiments. It sounds fun, doesn't it?
And actually, it is a lot of fun. The trippy bossa nova/psychedelic rock/catchy pop isn't as heavy as it sounds, but instead goes for a light, playful, deeply stoned vibe. Eerie flutes and jungle drums -- as in the eerie "Premier Bonheur du Jour" -- get mixed in with solid guitar riffs and smooth keyboards. Those tradition instruments ground what could have been just another psychedelic band. It's gloriously catchy, and incredibly infectious.
The one flaw? Lesser-known albums like "Jardim Electro" and "Mutantes" are underrepresented in the selection of songs. Their first album, the self-titled "Os Mutantes" -- also probably their best ever -- is strongly emphasized. However, if you are looking for an excellent individual listen and not a representation of all their albums, then this is a very good find.
Few of the Os Mutantes albums are currently available in the U.S., which would make this the ideal introduction by default. But "World Psychedelic Classics 1" is a fairly good introduction to the band in its own right.
 Great brazil, great 60`s. You cant ask for much more January 8, 2005
I really havent heard anything alse of this group, just some kazaa tracks but it isnt enough. THIS GROUP IS GREAT!!!!!!!!! Rita Lee at top of her form, rather strange experiments, but it sounds great. Its a shame that there arent more mutantes albums. This album might as well be really short (it only last 45 minutes and its a "greatest hits". it should have more music) but its a great introduction to the group. The best of the best: Ando meio desligado, cantor de mambo and PAnis et circenses. And of course, its a crime to forget Dia 36 (a guitar throwing up: you just have to hear it) and of course the very best version of the song baby, so wasted by caetano veloso. if u like experimental music, south american music and/or the swinging sixties, listen to this album
One good Byrne deserves another, but... January 30, 2004
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
One of the more unfortunate recent cultural events was the titling of the Terry Gilliam movie *Brazil*, otherwise edifying enough. And the real problem with having such a product (which takes up as much space in many people's *espaces mentaux* as that country itself) is that it interferes with recognition of that country's very live cultural reality, and that this cultural reality is *in some ways* not unlike that of *Brazil* due to the 1968 AI-5 act, with which the ruling military government banned political discourse. Although there is a new biography available from one of the best-known figures of this period, Caetano Veloso, this anthology for Os Mutantes is a *revelatory* item. Compiled by David Byrne for his purist Luaka Bop label, this CD collects songs from all through Os Mutantes' career: it includes early recordings of songs from Veloso and Jorge Ben, but also the Mutantes' later attempts to record relevant yet saleable material (including songs in "Portunhol", a mixture of Spanish and Portuguese). Robert Christgau is concerned that *estadouidenses* will not be able to follow the sounds of the Tropicalia period, but "in this time of melding cultures" this is actually one of the more challenging (yet feasible) of such tasks. The Mutantes (do a little math) do not possess an "exoticist" mien: they present an alternate and "problematized" modernity, one which was *always* intended for export. And perhaps one of Beck's much-hyped returns to non-form, on *Mutations*, owes as much to the mindset of that period as its conflicted relationship with the native sounds of Bahia: such that musicians who have not yet troubled to pick a Mutantes record up may be even more interested than this early revivalist conformance allows (Omplatten has since released all the early records at reasonably affordable prices).
Shockingly great music February 27, 2003
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
A couple of years ago, I bought the second Nuggets box set, the one that features psychedelic '60's music from outside of the U.S.A. (the first set was almost exclusively American). Anyhow, one of the songs on that second set was an odd tune called "Bat Macumba" by a strange Brazilian group called "Os Mutantes" ("The Mutants"). I liked the song right away, but as I listened to it a few times, it really began to get under my skin. When I got a chance to hear more from this band (via this album, "Everything is Possible"), I realized that "Bat Macumba" was not a fluke.To be a little less indirect, Os Mutantes made some of the most daring, exciting, off-the-wall-and-yet-surprisingly-listenable music I've ever heard. Discovering this music was for me one of those truly mind-expanding, change-your-life kind of events. It actually makes me want to learn Portuguese in the same way that Dostoyevsky made me want to learn Russian. It's also opened my ears to Tropicalia, a style I was never really aware of before, but which I am now beginning to explore. I should warn the prospective listener that this stuff is pretty wierd. In fact, if I understand it correctly, wierdness for wierdness' sake (or perhaps for creativity's sake) was a big part of what Tropicalia was all about. But if you can stand the wiredness, and listen with an open mind and open ears, Os Mutantes' music is very, very rewarding. This album (on which there is not a single bad song, by the way) is a good place to start, if only because it's still in print. It might also give you an introductory glance into a whole movement (and a whole culture) of which you may have known little.
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