tropicalia

tropicalia's on my mind today. MOJO published a really cool article on tropicalia a while back. i made a list of artists to check out - but so far i've only listened to one band. okay, so i'll make it a belated new year's resolution.

but the band i listened to, os mutantes, is amazing. their music is surreal stuff, and often disorienting in its tendency to suddenly change genres mid-song. i kind of like it though. it's like "hair" sometimes, or "shaft."

since i've only heard one band, i need to keep listening before i can think about troplicalia in general. (though according to MOJO, the band is the foundational tropicalia band.) there is some info up on luaka bop about os mutantes, but not much. cool that it's up on david byrne's website along with other brazilian artists.