Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes

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"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

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Os Mutantes were the Pioneer Brazilian Psychedelic Band in the Late 60's. Compiled by David Byrne from the Remastered Original Tapes. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Average customer rating: this is great stuff Trying to do the impossible World of Os Mutantes

Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes Os Mutantes Manufacturer: Luaka Bop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Rock | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Caetano Veloso (Tropicália) Os Mutantes Cold Heat: Heavy Funk Rarities 1968-1974, Vol. 1 Ys Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks) ASIN: B0007XT85I Release Date: 2005-03-22

Tracks:

1. Ando Meio Desligado
2. Ave, Lucifer
3. Dia 3b
4. Baby
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

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"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 Details

Os Mutantes were the Pioneer Brazilian Psychedelic Band in the Late 60's. Compiled by David Byrne from the Remastered Original Tapes.

Customer Reviews:

this is great stuff.......2007-02-07

for those who are not familiar with the music of Os Mutantes, this is a great CD to get, it is a "best of" compiliation. Combining elements of psychedelia, samba, bossa nova, and pop music, it all blends together very well. A great CD to listen to whle relaing a the end of the day.

Trying to do the impossible.......2005-11-02

I have to give this collection 4 stars because it is the only easy way to get ahold of any Os Mutantes material. That being said, many of the most tripped out songs of Os Mutantes are left off of this collection, including Rita Lee, Top Top, Nao va se perder por ai, etc. Those who are looking for a good quick introduction to how great the music made in Brazil in the 70s are could use this as a good start. But then they should really get ahold of their albums, including Mutantes, Os Mutantes, and Jardim Electrico.

World of Os Mutantes.......2005-03-29

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.

Average customer rating: Decent introduction, some rare mixes Great brazil, great 60`s. You cant ask for much more One good Byrne deserves another, but... Shockingly great music Only One Side of the Story

World Psychedelic Classics 1: Brazil: The Best Of Os Mutantes/Everything Is Possible! Os Mutantes Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Rock | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Caetano Veloso (Tropicália) Transa Tropicália Essentials Inspiration Information Tecnicolor ASIN: B00000J7JI Release Date: 1999-06-08

Tracks:

1. Ando Meio Desligado
2. Ave, Lucifer
3. Dia
4. Baby
5. Fuga No. II
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

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"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 Details

Os Mutantes were the Pioneer Brazilian Psychedelic Band in the Late 60's. Compiled by David Byrne from the Remastered Original Tapes.

Customer Reviews:

Decent introduction, some rare mixes.......2007-07-16

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.)

Great brazil, great 60`s. You cant ask for much more.......2005-01-08

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..........2004-01-30

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.......2003-02-27

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.

Only One Side of the Story.......2003-02-13

I feel guilty giving this release only three stars. Let's face it, the Mutantes were a great band, but this is only a so-so compilation. It only gives you a small piece of the big picture. For one thing, like Luaka Bop's compilation of Tom Ze, it tends to over-concentrate on one album (in this case the Mutantes first). This leaves little room for songs from their other (very good) albums, most notably their second album, Mutantes, and their fourth album, Jardim Electrico. Hoje e o primeiro dia del resto de sua vida (?), a Mutantes album in all but name, is criminally unrepresented.

Secondly, the compilers definitely have a bias towards the poppier end of the Mutantes' musical spectrum. There's very little guitar pyrotechics here except on the parodic Cantor de Mambo (Mutantes roast Santana) and Bat Macumba. Believe me, the Mutantes could really play. To hear "Baby" without it being preceded by the rock guitar excess of "Sarava" is really disappointing. The Mutantes took part in one of the greatest musical revolutions in the history of pop music, Tropicalia. Like other musicians who took part in this movement, such as Caetano Veloso, Gil Gilberto, Gal Costa and Tom Ze. The Mutantes cleverly played with musical forms, laughed at rock/art pretension, took apart and recombined elements of pop, rock, jazz, psychedelia, folk, bossa nova, classical music, etc. You don't get the same sense of fun from the song selection on this CD.
Call me a crazy fan, but I whole-heartedly recommend every Mutantes album, most particularly Os Mutantes (the first), Mutantes (the second) and Jardim Electrico. Anyone who loves the fun-filled musical explorations of sixties music will love this band. (And anyone who doesn't is a stick in the mud, old fuddy-duddy.)

Average customer rating: Decent introduction, some rare mixes Great brazil, great 60`s. You cant ask for much more One good Byrne deserves another, but... Shockingly great music Only One Side of the Story

Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes Os Mutantes Manufacturer: Luaka Bop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Rock | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Caetano Veloso (Tropicália) Transa Tropicália Essentials Inspiration Information Tecnicolor ASIN: B00004RD1T Release Date: 2000-03-28

Tracks:

1. Ando Meio Desligado
2. Ave, Lucifer
3. Dia 36
4. Baby (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)

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 Details

Os Mutantes were the Pioneer Brazilian Psychedelic Band in the Late 60's. Compiled by David Byrne from the Remastered Original Tapes.

Customer Reviews:

Decent introduction, some rare mixes.......2007-07-16

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.)

Great brazil, great 60`s. You cant ask for much more.......2005-01-08

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..........2004-01-30

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.......2003-02-27

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.

Only One Side of the Story.......2003-02-13

I feel guilty giving this release only three stars. Let's face it, the Mutantes were a great band, but this is only a so-so compilation. It only gives you a small piece of the big picture. For one thing, like Luaka Bop's compilation of Tom Ze, it tends to over-concentrate on one album (in this case the Mutantes first). This leaves little room for songs from their other (very good) albums, most notably their second album, Mutantes, and their fourth album, Jardim Electrico. Hoje e o primeiro dia del resto de sua vida (?), a Mutantes album in all but name, is criminally unrepresented.

Secondly, the compilers definitely have a bias towards the poppier end of the Mutantes' musical spectrum. There's very little guitar pyrotechics here except on the parodic Cantor de Mambo (Mutantes roast Santana) and Bat Macumba. Believe me, the Mutantes could really play. To hear "Baby" without it being preceded by the rock guitar excess of "Sarava" is really disappointing. The Mutantes took part in one of the greatest musical revolutions in the history of pop music, Tropicalia. Like other musicians who took part in this movement, such as Caetano Veloso, Gil Gilberto, Gal Costa and Tom Ze. The Mutantes cleverly played with musical forms, laughed at rock/art pretension, took apart and recombined elements of pop, rock, jazz, psychedelia, folk, bossa nova, classical music, etc. You don't get the same sense of fun from the song selection on this CD.
Call me a crazy fan, but I whole-heartedly recommend every Mutantes album, most particularly Os Mutantes (the first), Mutantes (the second) and Jardim Electrico. Anyone who loves the fun-filled musical explorations of sixties music will love this band. (And anyone who doesn't is a stick in the mud, old fuddy-duddy.)

Average customer rating:

Everything Is Possible: The Best of Muta Os Mutantes Manufacturer: Universal ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000062WQD Release Date: 2001-12-04

Album Details

Greatest Hits Reissue Compilation of the Unforgettable Rock Group that Changed the History of Rockmusic in Brazil in the Late 60's.

Average customer rating: World of Os Mutantes

Everything Is Possible: The Best of Os Mutantes Os Mutantes Manufacturer: V2 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Rock | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006GRMAE Release Date: 2005-02-14

Tracks:

1. Ando Meio Desligado
2. Ave, Lucifer
3. Dia 36
4. Baby [1971]
5. Fuga No. II
6. Cantor de Mambo
7. Adeus Maria Fulo
8. Desculpe, Babe
9. Justiciero
10. Panis et Circenses
11. Minha Menina
12. Bat Macumba
13. Premier Bonheur du Jour
14. Baby [1988]

Album Description

Unavailable in the U.S.! 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.

Customer Reviews:

World of Os Mutantes.......2005-09-22

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.

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