The Tropicalia movement was an artistic response to the Brazilian coup of 1964 and the military dicatorship that followed. Passionately and intelligently articulated through music, poetry, and fashion, the movement was a brief explosion of cultural transformation and upheaval, spanning a period of five years, from 1967 to 1972.
Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil are considered the leaders of the movement, who, along with Os Mutantes, experimented with unusual time signatures and other means of unorthodox song structures in their music. In 1969, Veloso and Gil were jailed for about a month and, shortly after their release, exiled by the military government. (They relocated to London until 1972.)
For those interested, pick up Veloso's 2002 book Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil
Heres a track from his second solo album "Caetano Veloso" (a.k.a. Álbum Branco, which means White Album, in Portuguese), released in Brazil in 1969. The album vocals and acoustic guitars were recorded in a small recording studio in Salvador, where Veloso was confined for defying the authoritarian Brazilian government of the time, after spent some time arrested in Rio de Janeiro. He recorded the vocals, and Gilberto Gil the acoustic guitar, which were sent to arranger and producer Rogério Duprat, who added layers of electric guitars, horns, bass, drums and other instruments in a more professional studio in São Paulo.
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