Tag Archives: gilberto gil
Tropicalia, Bat macumba
the fourth week of NaBloPoMo is dedicated to Brazilian music. as today is cloudy and cold, we'll start with some bouncy tunes from the Tropicalia movement of the late 1960s.
a couple of versions of the traditional "bat macumba"
The soundtrack to my summer
This summer hasn't been too great, more downs than ups; one of the highlights is the musical compilation
Tropicália: A Brazilian revolution in sound, which has taken almost uninterrupted residence in my car's CD player.
Tropicália was a short-lived Brazilian arts movement that peaked in the 1967-1968 period, partly inspired by the same effervescence that generated the Summer of love and Paris May 1968; a worldwide sense that national barriers were breaking down and cultures were taking, giving, borrowing and loaning to each other.
while Tropicália was not limited to music, its major impact and legacy is musical; exuberant, limitless, daring. here are some tracks:
This track by Caetano Veloso, one of the leaders of the movement along with Gilberto Gil, became a sort of anthem
Gal Costa, Tom Ze, and Os Mutantes
two versions of the traditional Bat Macumba
