Os Mutantes - Haih Or Amortecedor
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Artist: Os MutantesBrand: OS MUTANTES
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-09-08
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Hymns Of The World P.1 (Intro)
- Querida Querida
- Teclar
- 2000 e Agarrum
- Bagdad Blues
- O Careca
- O Mensageiro
- Anagrama
- Samba Do Fidel
- Neuroci�ªncia do Amor
- Nada Mudou
- Gopala Krishna Om
- Hymns Of The World P.2 (Final)
Music reviews of Haih Or Amortecedor
Music Review: Some of the magic is back.
Rating: 3 Stars
In one of the most anticipated reunions of recent decades (they were heavily lobbied by Kurt Cobain and Beck among others to reform, but politely declined for years), Os Mutantes returned to the studio and produced an album that reaches for the heights they once knew. It's a sincere and well-made Brazilian rock album with the requisite stylistic switch-ups and unconvential arrangements fans will expect, and if that sounds like damning with faint praise it very well might be. Something was lost in the intervening decade, although it certainly wasn't talent or effort.
One of the things that made Os Mutantes' absurdist pop/psychedelia so groundbreaking (especially for their first 4 or 5 albums) was the actual ground that it broke. The Tropicalia movement was across-the-board in the Brazilian arts, a slyly confrontational creative juggernaut that the government definitely felt threatened by. They jailed and exiled Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil -- pop stars -- after all. 35 years later, the political charge their unconventional, fearless songs once held is obviously absent, leftism isn't the dangerous occupation it once was. One of their songs was even used in a McDonald's commercial!
Mostly, that's intangible on "Haih" in strictly a musical sense. The production style still alternately bites the ears and then sweetly seduces them, often in the same song. To modern listeners, the most revolutionary aspect of the late 1960s/early 1970s band was their sonic versatility. One of the Baptista brothers was gifted with electronics and built all their guitar effects and pedals, as such things were expensive and hard to come by in Brazil. The new album was recorded with modern equipment however, and these more conventional "rock" sounds don't necessarily mesh with Os Mutantes' eclectic approach. Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee are absent as well, two key components to the band's mercurial chemistry. While Bia Mendes is an agile singer, the timbral differences and her more restrained presence than Lee make her contributions seem slight, and even forced sometimes.
My reservations with the new album all boil down to a pervasive stiffness, the sound of Sergio Dias (the only remaining original member) trying to put on a three-decades old musical costume instead of just going wild in the studio as his younger self and the other former band members did, to amazingly documented effect. That first classic run of albums is essential listening for everyone (and I mean everyone), whereas "Haih" is really only essential listening for established fans. It's good to have this band back, more or less, but I hope if they stick around and keep producing albums they let loose a little more and don't try to play to peoples' expectations of who they should be as much.
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On their first new release in 35 years, revered Brazilian group Os Mutantes update their legendary Tropicalia sound, a politically charged mix of psychedelic rock and indigenous Brazilian music, propelling the band out of the sixties into an uncharted and exotic future. The songs utilize a startling assortment of instrumentation, from austere violins to distorted guitars and something called a crazy flute, lending an underlying theatrical power to the genre-defying music. Os Mutantes previous albums have influenced a host of luminaries from Beck to the Flaming Lips and Kurt Cobain. Features songwriting collaborations with Brazilian legends Tom Ze and Jorge Ben.International CDs
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