Os Mutantes - The Garden of Notes

A short film fantasy about psychedelic rock pioneers - Os Mutantes - narrated by Devendra Banhart

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• os
• mutantes
• brazil
• cesar
• baptista
• claudio
• arnaldo
• rita
• lee
• jones
• gilbert
• gil
• devendra
• banhart

[luizinchains]

greetings from brazil!

mutantes are great!

we love em!

[CubeFarmRefugees]

This is really nice. The writing is excellent as well.

[THECLARENCES]

The Clarences love & support Os Mutantes!

[Fredrockroll]

I agree that the video it's exagerate saying that "the soldiers were coming for them next"... Mutantes weren't their first concern when it comes about artists fighting the dictatorship, that's for sure. But you can't say they lack COMPLETLY on political effort.

[Fredrockroll]

Yes, Mutantes didn't say in their song things like "fuck off militarys!", but they didn't went "crazy" with their clothes ONLY for fun: they meant to go "against" what was going on. The dictatorship era wasn't a fun time, so being all colourful and dressing weird was actually going against it. And being "Panis et Circenses" one of the hyms of Tropicalia (written and performed by Tropicalists), i guess you can say they had a political thing going on.

[Fredrockroll]

@rafalimpim Mutantes had problems with the dictatorship. Some of their musics were censured. "Dom Quixote", "Ave, Lucifer" and "A Hora e a Vez do Cabelo Nascer" are examples. And if Gil and Caetano had problems with dictatorship because of their ideas, so tropicalism had problems too. Not as a movement, but as a whole, because it's inventors were chased.

[tatabueno]

GENIAIS!

ORGULHO!

[organicphoto]

This is perfect for introducing my friends to my favorite band - thanks!

[Heinrich4X]

Bat Macumba hehehê Bat macumba! Eles eram demais e isso é que importa!

[rafalimpim]

Let's make things clear. Os Mutantes were a incredibly creative rock band that fited into tropicalist's esthetical needs. They were lucky to be received by the tropicalists. Otherwise, they could have been just a brazilian Beatles cover band. I exagerate, of course. But their triumph is strongly connected to tropicalism, movement in wich their contribution consisted more in their musical abilities and courage for experimentation than really in proposing new esthetical paths to brazilian music.