So, first of all, GREAT video! It is really interesting to see how someone outside of Brazil sees Tropicalia! A few adendums: 1. Veloso and Helio Oiticia were very good friends, and were really close. Veloso even wore Oiticica's "Parangolé" (a form of art/dresscode) in some shows and photoshootings. 2. Also, Oticica was despised by the Military, specially because of his saying "Seja marginal, seja herói" (Be an outcast, be a hero). In Brazil, the word "outcast" can also mean things like "thug" or "criminal", and it sounded like a provocation to the military. 3. Veloso and Gil were heavily influenced by an art movement from 1928 called "Manifesto Antropófago" (Manifest Antropofagic), by Oswald de Andrade. In it, he sais that Brazilian culture must come from the "consuption" of every type of culture, be it from Brazil, South America, US, Europe, etc., and then "putting it all out" in our own and unique way, and that only by doing so we would have a culture of our own. Veloso and Gil took this to heart when creating the Tropicalia. That's it! Thank you so much for this video! It was a blast"
I will add that it was Oiticica who created the term Tropicalia and Veloso ran with as a musical movement. I cant confirm but im not sure Helio was that close to Veloso. My mom was very close friend of Helio and took many photos of Parangole and Helios work and the rest of the Neo Concretismo movement with Lygia Clarke and Lygia Pape. Learning a lot reading your comments and others. Obrigado 🤟🏼.
As an aside, "Antropófago" translated to English means "man-eating" or "cannibalism". In the context of creating or enhancing a thing by "cannibalizing" parts of similar things. For example, building or repairing a car by "cannibalizing" parts from other cars of the same or similar model.
Great video! I'll add to the note that others have mentioned, that Tropicália as a movement built upon the concept of Antropofagia (anthropophagy, a fancy way of saying cannibalism). The debate about "brazilianness" had been going on since the early 1900s, with different scholars trying to define what the country's culture was, especially in the wake of independence and the abolition of slavery. One argument came from the artists in the Brazilian Modernist Movement, who took the cliche about native Brazilians being cannibals and flipped it on its head, saying that Brazil is essentially a mongrel country and its culture is defined by cannibalizing anything and everything and making it its own. The few native tribes that did practice cannibalism did it by eating their enemies in order to take on their powers, and the Modernists saw Brazilian culture essentially doing the same with every foreign influence. You can see how Tropicália picked up on that idea, but those tensions around what defined "Brazilian" culture were still raging at the time. Obviously there's a lot you could cover in future videos. Tom Zé is a fascinating figure, and you also have Milton Nascimento and Clube da Esquina. There's the generation that came later in the 70s, dubbed Geração Maldita (Doomed Generation), who were considered even more extreme compared to Caetano and Gil and didn't have the same success. People like Jorge Mautner, Walter Franco, Jards Macalé and Sérgio Sampaio. Another scene that is really fascinating is the one that came up in São Paulo in the early 80s around the club Lira Paulistana - a mix of bands playing MPB, punk, free jazz and new wave, it's an interesting look at what was happening as the dictatorship fell apart.
So fascinating. I knew the comment section would be rich for this video. Such an interesting history. So few people know anything about the history of Brazilian music
@Bandsplaining add "Brasil" in the title, this will summon all of us brazilians. Btw, thanks to introduce soviet rock to me. Edit.: Needs to be more clickbait, like: "BRASIL CENSUROU ARTISTAS ?! A Inacreditável História de Exílio e Censura da Tropicália" (thanks chatgpt)
As an American fan of Brazilian music, I am glad to see you clearly do your due diligence in research and put in the work to make this video cover a wide array of the Tropicalia movement. Just to add my two cents about the movement from a foreign perspective… As brilliant of songwriters as Ze, Gil and Veloso were, as equally talented and insane musicians os mutantes were, as powerful and beautiful vocalists that Gal Costa and Jorge Ben were, I truly believe much of Tropicalia movement owes its identity to Rogerio Duprat. The cinematic and beautiful orchestrations in so many quintessential Tropicalia albums really help the movement feel like an expansion of the sgt pepper era of psychedelia while also having its own distinctly Brazilian flair. His string and horn arrangements are always exactly what they need to be and add a level of musical sophistication to many Tropicalia songs. Some notable Tropicalia albums with Duprat in the conductors chair…(costa 1969, Caetano Veloso white album, Gilberto Gil 1968 and 1969, the first 3 os mutantes albums) as well as many great albums afterwards (Chico Buarque Construcao, Erasmo Carlos self titled, Nara Leao dez anos depoz)
Fantastic video. As a Brasileiro myself, a vinyl collector with more than 1,000 albums just of Brazilian music, a journalist and DJ, I have to say there are a few tiny "incorrections" (or more like misconceptions) however, I've never seen a more detailed and well explained video on such an important movement. Thanks for sharing a little bit of Brazilian's amazing music history. Get in touch if you ever need to bounce off ideas for more Brazilian music videos. Cheers.
Just got into vinyl, my first ones were of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. Love Brazilian music. I would love some recommendations so that I can go look for them, thanks!
@@hugogarcia9797 This list is a great reference of Brazilian albums. Obviously there are others but if you get ANY of the top 10 albums in this list you'll be well served. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rolling_Stone_Brasil_100_Greatest_Brazilian_Music_Records
I really like how Brazillian Prog Rock evolved in the 70's You have Os Mutantes with their 1974-1976 lineup, recording some of their best albums, such as "Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol" and "Cavaleiros Negros", alongside the most prominent prog band here: O Terço; recording "Criaturas da Noite" and "Casa Encatanda". Not even mentioning the cultural movements in Minas Gerais, reaching it's peak with "Clube da Esquina" by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, being considered the best MPB record in Brazil by critics and fans alike!
Midwest African American here. Absolutely loved this video. As well as the Zambia rock movement done before. Nothing brings me more joy than this amazing history being shared.
’Bat’ also sounds like ‘bate,’ meaning ‘beat’ in Portuguese, which ties into the rhythm of macumba, a macumba beat. The negative space left by the bat wings on the lyric sheet resembles the lozenge shape on the Brazilian flag 🇧🇷. This demonstrates how they would start with an international pop culture reference and cleverly bring it back to a distinctly Brazilian cultural symbol.
Nice video! For the post tropicalia era music, here’s my suggestion: Clube da Esquina! This mineiro movement was the maturity of tropicalism’s hibridity and musical genres mixing. Also, Milton Nascimento, Clube da Esquina’s central character, gained quite the recognition worldwide, recording with jazz legends, such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny (also, Esperanza Spalding’s latest album features him and his songs). Clube da Esquina had it’s influence on a number of artists worldwide. Musically, there’s samba and bossa, but quite hidden, in a mixture of Beatles rock, traditional music from Minas Gerais, jazz, Andean music, Brazilian northeastern music, classical music and sacred chants, with lots and lots modal harmony. Also very visual and cinematic lyrics, with a high dose of criticism towards the dictatorship.
Great video! I'm from Bahia, Brazil, and, so, this video pretty much talks about people from my region, as much part of the Brazilian history, so it touches me seriously. As someone reminded in the comments, Tropicália as a movement was very much influenced by Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago, as much as the Modernist movement in the 1920s, and, so, it's a follow-up to that idearium. Tropicália, the name itself, came from the artist Hélio Oiticica, whose art exposition had that name. So, the real start of Tropicália wasn't exactly from the music, but the fine arts. And Tropicália had also cinematic repercussions: Glauber Rocha's "O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro" and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's "Macunaíma", movies by two filmmakers from the Cinema Novo movement. There's also literary connections in Torquato Neto's poetry or in "PanAmérica" by José de Agrippino de Paula. I know that the focus here is on the music, but it's important to assure that Tropicália was a multiartistic movement. As for a Post-Tropicália repertoire, I'd suggest not only Novos Baianos, but also the so-called Malditos da MPB: Walter Franco, Sérgio Sampaio, Jorge Mautner, Jards Macalé, Raul Seixas (in spite of being more identified with the Brazilian rock)... I could tell also the Udigrudi Pernambucano (Lula Côrtes, Zé Ramalho, Alceu Valença) or the Vanguarda Paulista (Arrigo Barnabé, Tetê Espíndola, Itamar Assumpção)... By the way, I've been follow this channel even before this video, the suggestions of African and Soviet rock came from me thanks to you, Bandsplaining! So, this video is like a tip on the hat for us for us, Brazilians. So, thanks!
Caetano is an absolute legend! He was actually performing in my hometown a few months back, but my friend, who likes the same music I do, only told me literally the day after it happened.... Awesome video!
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I was a kid in NYC in the late 70s/early early 80s. My extended family had emigrated to the USA from the French Caribbean in the late 60s, and these artists musicians along with others were the record albums, 8 track tapes and cassettes of my uncles and older cousins. At family gatherings these were the soundtracks of our lives.
@Bandsplaining Oh HECK no! I grew up listening to international music- besides the fact that many artists from Latin America and Europe made recordings in French to reach a bigger market, it was just common in Caribbean culture (my family's from Haiti) to listen to albums in foreign languages. Ceclia Cruz, Gilberto Gil, Edith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri, Manu DiBango, Charles Aznavour, Fela Kuti- from Brazil to Greece to Africa! Love Your Channel!!
12:50 Not really... They actually both have Gilberto as their first names! It's just that João Gilberto had what we call a composite name: a iberian naming convention that gives someone two first names, his actual last name was Pereira de Oliveira. For example, the full first name of actor Pedro Pascal is José Pedro. Brazilians of varying ancestries even appropriated this naming tradition in order to honor their ancestries: brazilian actress of japanese ancestry Ana Hikari has both Ana and Hikari as her first names, whereas her last name is Takenaka Rosa (this is pretty common amongst brazilians of japanese ancestry actually). Also, props to you for actually doing the research and not assuming our j's are pronounced like h's as it is in spanish! It's difficult to find this minimal demonstration of research even in supposed serious reporters/reporting channels.
Bit of a long comment, but here I go. 1. There's a very small detail about Carmen Miranda that's kinda key to understand why Brazilians have a complicated relationship with her. She was born in Portugal. Even though she grew up here, the fact that she was born Portuguese and not Brazilian gets brought up a lot when discussing her legacy. That's because the idea of a stereotypical portrayal of our culture looks way worse when it's done by someone who hails from the country that colonized us. 2. The "Bat Macumba" version by Os Mutantes is an example of poesia concreta, which is a modernist poetic style developed in Brazil in the 20th Century that played a lot with not only meaning, but the actual shape of words and phrases as well. Thus the wings of a bat! 3. I actually think a fantastic post-Tropicália album is the eponymous debut album from Secos & Molhados, who were led by the great Ney Matogrosso. One of the greatest albums ever 4. Chico Buarque eventually did a song in the 70s called Jorge Maravilha that was a rock song about how the military hated him, but their daughters all listened to his music. It became a massive hit.
Carmem Miranda beign Portuguese is actually just a recent problem, as she came to Brazil only 3 months old, and when asked she usually answered that she was Born in Rio, so it was only a problem in the 21th century when that information became widespread, I the 30s she was the face of Samba until her Hollywood times.
Absolutely not a single person in Brazil cares that Carmen Miranda - or anyone else for that matter - was born in Portugal. Like millions of other immigrants, grandparents of millions of living Brazilians, she was born abroad and raised here. It’s completely ordinary, common and uneventful and has absolutely no cultural or political significance.
Thank you for the context. It kind of pisses me off as a Latin American when people speak for what “we” should want. I don’t like when Spaniards or Europeans represent my people, especially stereotypically and for profit when they already have more wealth from owning & killing us, getting most of their wealth from the continued exploitation of our land, and being the face of our culture when they sought to erase it…but sure. Tell us how to feel about it. It’s giving talking over indigenous/ African/mixed people who have been on the land forever-a favorite pastime of recent European immigrants and colonizers in Latin America so I won’t deny you live there. 😉☺️
There's one inaccuracy in the title, the left did not hate Caetano, the audience that night did not represent the left, it was merely a musical rejection, I should know, I was part of the resistance to the dictartoship.
Hey man, big brazilian fan here, loved the video! Ty for introducing me to zamrock and peruvian cumbia! Have you heard of Chico Science e Nação Zumbi? Another legendary northeastern brazilian group, but from the 90s, who created manguebeat, a unique blend of traditional northeastern sounds, especially the percurssive maracatu, with psychodelic rock, metal, and more. Intense drums along some heavy and trippy riffage, over socially conscious lyrics, deeply rooted in northeartern culture. Unique stuff, you should check it out!
I only had a surface knowledge of Tropicalia before watching this video, but I absolutely love the first self titled Os Mutantes album! I think you hit the nail on the head, "Panis et Circenses" does have a Pet Sounds vibe to it, which is what drove my interest in the album, as a fan of 60s pop and Psych. "Adeus, Maria Fulô" is one of my favorites on that album, along with "Senhor F", and that blistering version of "Bat Macumba". A bunch of the main figures in the movement sounded familiar to me, and I realized I had liked a few songs by the artists on Spotify. I'm going to dig deeper into some of those albums after watching this, so thank you!
Great video, as always. If you wanna go down the rabbit hole of short-lived brazilian musical movements, I highly recommend Vanguarda Paulista (from the 80s; check Clara Crocodilo by Arrigo Barnabé and Beleléu, Leléu, Eu by Itamar Assumpção, both are nice introductions, and things go from deconstructed samba to avant-prog with Stockhausen samples) and Manguebeat (from 90s Pernambuco, a response to the tech and computer boom; more of a hard rock fused with regional beats, check Chico Science & Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S/A). You'll also found that one of the most creative post-punk ever was being made in São Paulo. You can listen some good compilations of the scene in the Não Wave/Não São Paulo albums (yes, the name was taken from No Wave NY, but it sounds nothing like just a ripoff of DNA or The Contortions).
Proud to hail from the same city (and state) from which many artists tied to the Tropicália movement come from, as well. Thanks for covering this, Bandsplaining! 🇧🇷👍🏻
your research work is amazing on this video. Congratulations! This beef between MPB and Jovem Guarda happens until today between fans. MPB fans called the musicians of Jovem Guarda "alienated", but they ignore the HUGE influence. First, the name of the Rock movement in Brazil was Iê-iê-iê (because of Beatles "She Loves You" song). Jovem Guarda was just the name of the TV show, but nowadays people use the term Jovem Guarda as the movement, more than iê-iê-iê. So, iê-iê-iê was the movement that created the guitar culture in Brazil. Lots of guitar brands came in that era, and the most important one is Giannini with the Supersonic model. The most important guitarists in Brazil, Pepeu Gomes and Lanny Gordin used Giannini Supersonics. Without iê-iê-iê and jovem guarda we probably wouldn't have tropicália. I would love a video about jovem guarda
Though it’s a little later on in the decade, post-Tropicalia, and his 14th[!] studio album), Jorge Ben’s “África Brasil” is an ESSENTIAL, if obvious, choice on my list of best records by Brazilian artists. Forgive me if you mentioned it in passing and I missed it. Also: INCREDIBLE work on this video, sir!
Clube da Esquina, by Clube da Esquina A Tábua de Esmeralda, by Jorge Ben Alucinação, by Belchior Secos e Molhados, by Secos e Molhados There's a lot more, but I think these were four of the best albuns that followed Tropicália.
The albums of Veloso, Gil, Os Mutantes, Costa, Ze, Ben Jor, Novos Baianos, Buarque, Borges and Nascimientos during the late 60’s-early 70’s are brilliant.
Hey, congratulations on the great video! Maybe for your next video you can mention Marcos Valle - Previsão do Tempo, one of my all time favorites. It's an awesome mix of MPB and Soul/funk, and charged with symbolic protest against the military dictatorship ❤
Man that was electric, and literally about artist musicians and a movement i knew absolutely 0 about. What was happening in Brazil kinda makes the musical counter culture happening in the USA at the same time seem pale in comparison. Those guys were not only amazingly eclectic musicians, they were brave. Also, isn’t it funny how underground or avant garde or non conformist musical movements that seek to break the norms of the status quo end up having rigid definitions and any followers or artist that break the “rules” of the non conformist by not confirming, obviously thinking of the punk movement but there are countless others, end up being admonished and castigated for daring to think outside of the outside box
That’s pure gold, deep understanding of Brazil’s cultural music movement, analyzing down to lyrics and intentions of the artists who wrote them, interviews, videos, you won’t see any better stuff about
Hey Bandsplaining, amazing video about Tropicalia. You even included clips from the BBC documentary series, Brasil Brasil. Also, I'm still waiting on that Luiz Gonzaga or Forró video. I hope you can make it soon. 🎸🇺🇸💙🇧🇷🥁
Excellent video! Took so much courage for these artists to do what they did under violent dictatorship. It's so easy to imagine some of these songs like "Baby" and "Bat Macumba" as just old catchy radio hits from Brazil, specially with the way old media is repurposed and diluted for corporate use today. To think that both of THESE songs were stepping stones for Veloso and Gil to get exiled is just crazy. lol Would be great if you did a video on the Argentinean counterculture music movement during their times under dictatorship/military rule as well! 60s, 70s, 80s.
Great video! In 2007 I was in school and had to make a article about vanguards and pick the tropicalia theme out of blue. Since then I understood music and poetry as a contemporary people and saw a lot of interviews and documentary material about it. You mad a great job in this piece, it really give a context! There so many music and details that could be added in a longer time, wish we could see the video with the integral songs! If I have an English speaker friend in future I will recommend this video for hours of conversation afterwards
7:10 "Roda-viva" (living wheel) is more likely translated as "flywheel". These lyrics compares a flywheel with brazilian dictatorship, an out-of-control wheel that came to take over the "most beautiful rose bush to exist" (freedom to work), the guitar (freedom to create), the memories and the destinies.
Incredible. Never would have thought someone can butthurt so much over an electric guitars. Sure there’s much more to this, like rejection of American capitalism, but still. And this guy Veloso.. wow, a true rebel. Special thanks for adding timestamps with a track list, found a lot of music gems, like Nara Leao and Novos Baianos ❤
I have to congratulate your research, also your production and image selection, really impressive, I have never seen a material like this coming from a gringo. There were things I only found out with this video even being Brazilian. Thank you for making such a toughtfull and deep video about our culture. I also feel like I have to point out some things that bother me when gringos talk about Brazil. I think the Samba-focused introduction is really indicative of you being a gringo, since there were so many more musical styles with their own historic and social context behind Tropicalia, but Samba/Bossa is the only one with international projection (especially this urban 20th century Rio Samba you depict). This approach in the introduction is reflected later on as a tension between MPB vs Jovem Guarda, which is in fact true, but there was also a wider tension between urban, young, middle-upper class people and the rest of society, not only the Left but also traditional society. For example, one of the very traditional cultures that the video does not mention is the Caipira culture, from a big part of the inner country. One of the artists in the photos, Jair Rodrigues, is pictured alongside MPB/Bossa Nova artists, but he originally came from the Caipira culture and was made very famous with songs with rural themes. If look deep into Caipira and sort of related Nordestino cultures, you can go as far as medieval iberan/muslim music with touches of Indian sounds (just to give one example). Also the video makes a charicature of João Goulart and the motivations behind the military coup, as if Goulart was just mismanaging the country and there was the risk of discontent and revolt. Actually Goulart was a very popular leader who was conducting major reforms in Brazil, in the sense of class struggle reforms, taking away power from traditional elites and creating solid welfare institutions, developing sovereing industrial capacity, and flerting with socialism and anti-imperialism. The military coup was widely backed by the USA in order to halt this movement and continue colonial dependence managed by a consortium of foreing capital and local elites, so a rejection of electric guitar and other gringo cultural elements was not just a Leftist or a traditionalist thing, it was also a very alive rejection of the immediate effects of US imperialism on the wider population. The military dictatorship was brutal not only with communists and Leftists, but also with poor and black people in favelas, and it was all in the context of an unprecedented cultural invasion by the US in the Cold War, tightly associated with political control and neocolonialism. Urban upper and middle class Tropicalists, especially Caetano, presented a different approach to handling this: a form of capitulation with passive resistance, which actually became the norm today, so we can say his approach "won". But, you know, it was still capitulation. Our country is still colonized.
This is a really outstanding documentary!! censorship from both ends of the political spectrum. . I have enjoyed Os Mutantes and other bands mostly represented on compilations for a long time but this is the first great breakdown of the history I have heard. .really outstanding. .
Hey! I loved this video. You should have included Arthur Verocai! He’s a great musician from this time in Brazil. His music has influenced some popular rap and R&b songs today
Parabéns, ficou foda! Já acompanho seus vídeos há algum tempo e esse você inovou como nunca nos recursos e na complexidade de construção da história. 🇧🇷❤✨
Very good research.As german and married with a woman 30 years from Bahia I am,was and always will be interestet in the cultural history of this giant called Brasil (nunca with z). I love the brazilian music but i am also interstellar in the music of the southern states of the U.S. My dream is to visit one day the Mardi Gras. The magic of marching bands,percussion and brass,simple electrifying.
Very interesting music and history lesson. And useful to me too since I have been encountering some Brazilian music at work. Nice to have more depth and context on these artists and styles of music.
Wow!!! Outstanding research, incredible video. I grow up that time of the Tropicalia in Brasil. See that revolution happens was priceless. All those singers are amazing, But Caetano Chico e Milton are in another dimension. Even so was in the 80's " Lingua " of Caetano its something very special . Tks.
I loved your video! The attention to detail in how everything was pieced together really came into view. I would like to suggest another Brazilian musical movement that, as in the case of Tropicália, was influenced by such a great number of cultural sources and gained equal importance: Manguebeat. It was an on-top movement that belonged to Chico Science. It joined such traditional northeastern rhythms as maracatu with rock, hiphop, and electronic music to change the musical panorama. AND besides being musical, Manguebeat manifested itself through visual expressions such as paintings and graffiti and practiced social and environmental criticism to the neglect of urban peripheries and mangroves of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco located northeast of Brazil !!
I'm really enjoying the increasing number of international content creators finally shining a light on Brazil and all our wonders... Keep coming to Brazil, foreigners! Keep returning to Brazil, my fellow expats!
well done video and research, i'm sure my fellow brazilians will add small corrections and adendums, but you got the core of the story right on. for anyone interested in more brazilian music from the period i'd say to check out the northeastern scene of the late 60's and 70's, a good start point could be the band Ave Sangria.
The musicians that made up the tropicalia movement continued to create great music after Veloso and Gil were sent to exile in London. Caetano Veloso's Transa, Gilberto Gil's Expresso 2222, Gal Costa's India, Tom Zé's Estudando do Samba, Nara Leao's Dez Anos Depois, Jorge Ben's Forca Bruta, A Tabua de Esmerelda, and Africa Brasil, and the Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben joint effort Gil e Jorge are among the greatest Brazilian albums ever recorded.
It really surprised me how well researched this video was, whenever foreigners make videos about our culture and history they're mostly vague and scripted off generic sources like wikipedia and whatever article appears first on a google search. However you showed some great knowledge on Brazilian music and history, as well as a good understanding of our language, I really appreciate the inclusion of translations and subtitles. You did an amazing job with this video!!
That’s well done video, thank you for the good work! We need to remember when Brasil became self reference in music and a very rich content was being made.
Congratulations! I loved the entire story and everything about this documentary. Caetano and Gilberto are two of the greatest of all-times! Personally, I’ve follow up more Caetano’s career (indeed, I have been honored to play as opening act of his latest shows in my hometown Rosario, Argentina ❤❤❤). So by all means, thanks a lot for this valuable content, for the interest, dedication and kindness you’ve put on it, it is very appreciated. PS: I am very interested in Caetano’s exile time in the UK, because I’m familiar with the albums he recorded in that moment (Transa and the other that I won’t Google now), which are also very political and reactionary. OK, thanks again, and keep going!
There is so much god music after Tropicália to write in a comment. But I will try to suggest one movement that is not always cited: the udigrud. Udigrud is the pernambucan response to Tropicália, and the brazilian focus to the center-south of the country. Because they are from Northeast, they are underground (udigrud). Alceu Valença and Ze Ramalho began in this scene, but the most iconic band is Ave Sangria (blood bird).
THIS IS WOW - picked up on this when i was in Brazil 30 years ago - by then of course, everything was OK. People listened to everything. i was amazed it was so eclectic. you can hear all the influences in TITAS Thanks for explaining how it started.
Just a little observation. In batmacumba song the lyrics resembles a bat but also the brazilian flag. Great video, keep up with the good work amigo. :)
"Loki?" by Arnaldo Baptista (Os Mutantes) is a masterpiece. It's a rock album without eletric guitar, just piano, drums, bass and Rogerio's Duprat orchestration. Arnaldo is a true genious.
This documentary has very high production value, is well researched and presented. My parents who were musicians from Rio de Janeiro fled the country during the dictatorship, with my brother and I in tow. My mother, Regina Werneck, states in a short doc made about her, how a bomb went off right outside our patio, one night, when I was very young. We are now facing a fascist regime very close to taking power here in the US. Resist the agressors.
Macumba é um instrumento e muitos brasileiros referem-se às religiões de matriz africanas também. Gostei muito do seu mini doc. E inclusive essa parte da nossa história é retratada como arte na literatura também.
I recommend a really good tropicália album called "Os Brazões". They were a band that played with the singers at the song festivals, it's a very good listening and quite underground
Solid content. Dude did his research and added several gems along the way. All of those movements are a way to try to "unify" Brazil from North to South. And it's been going on since late 30's in Brazil as explained in the video. As there always was a fear of Brazil splitting into different countries as Hispanic America due all the cultural and economical differences between Brazilian regions. I love the art, but the puritanism in trying to bring a size fits all for Brazil is a sin committed by both left and right in the country. The cool thing about Brazil is exactly how different we can be from each other while speaking the same language and sharing the same borders and all Brazilian genres should be celebrated regardless of political agenda.
Seconded - “Misterio do Planeta” is such a fantastic song. Rolling Stone Brasil put this album on top of their 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums of all Time list…
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Chega de Saudade (1959), Tropicália (1968), Clube da Esquina (1972), Tribalistas (2002).
Chega de Saudade (1959), Tropicália (1968), Clube da Esquina (1972), Tribalistas (2002).
So, first of all, GREAT video! It is really interesting to see how someone outside of Brazil sees Tropicalia! A few adendums:
1. Veloso and Helio Oiticia were very good friends, and were really close. Veloso even wore Oiticica's "Parangolé" (a form of art/dresscode) in some shows and photoshootings.
2. Also, Oticica was despised by the Military, specially because of his saying "Seja marginal, seja herói" (Be an outcast, be a hero). In Brazil, the word "outcast" can also mean things like "thug" or "criminal", and it sounded like a provocation to the military.
3. Veloso and Gil were heavily influenced by an art movement from 1928 called "Manifesto Antropófago" (Manifest Antropofagic), by Oswald de Andrade. In it, he sais that Brazilian culture must come from the "consuption" of every type of culture, be it from Brazil, South America, US, Europe, etc., and then "putting it all out" in our own and unique way, and that only by doing so we would have a culture of our own. Veloso and Gil took this to heart when creating the Tropicalia.
That's it! Thank you so much for this video! It was a blast"
I will add that it was Oiticica who created the term Tropicalia and Veloso ran with as a musical movement. I cant confirm but im not sure Helio was that close to Veloso. My mom was very close friend of Helio and took many photos of Parangole and Helios work and the rest of the Neo Concretismo movement with Lygia Clarke and Lygia Pape. Learning a lot reading your comments and others. Obrigado 🤟🏼.
As an aside, "Antropófago" translated to English means "man-eating" or "cannibalism". In the context of creating or enhancing a thing by "cannibalizing" parts of similar things. For example, building or repairing a car by "cannibalizing" parts from other cars of the same or similar model.
They were inspired by FUNK MOVEMENT ACTUALLY
Great video! I'll add to the note that others have mentioned, that Tropicália as a movement built upon the concept of Antropofagia (anthropophagy, a fancy way of saying cannibalism). The debate about "brazilianness" had been going on since the early 1900s, with different scholars trying to define what the country's culture was, especially in the wake of independence and the abolition of slavery. One argument came from the artists in the Brazilian Modernist Movement, who took the cliche about native Brazilians being cannibals and flipped it on its head, saying that Brazil is essentially a mongrel country and its culture is defined by cannibalizing anything and everything and making it its own. The few native tribes that did practice cannibalism did it by eating their enemies in order to take on their powers, and the Modernists saw Brazilian culture essentially doing the same with every foreign influence. You can see how Tropicália picked up on that idea, but those tensions around what defined "Brazilian" culture were still raging at the time.
Obviously there's a lot you could cover in future videos. Tom Zé is a fascinating figure, and you also have Milton Nascimento and Clube da Esquina. There's the generation that came later in the 70s, dubbed Geração Maldita (Doomed Generation), who were considered even more extreme compared to Caetano and Gil and didn't have the same success. People like Jorge Mautner, Walter Franco, Jards Macalé and Sérgio Sampaio. Another scene that is really fascinating is the one that came up in São Paulo in the early 80s around the club Lira Paulistana - a mix of bands playing MPB, punk, free jazz and new wave, it's an interesting look at what was happening as the dictatorship fell apart.
So fascinating. I knew the comment section would be rich for this video. Such an interesting history. So few people know anything about the history of Brazilian music
@Bandsplaining add "Brasil" in the title, this will summon all of us brazilians. Btw, thanks to introduce soviet rock to me.
Edit.: Needs to be more clickbait, like: "BRASIL CENSUROU ARTISTAS ?! A Inacreditável História de Exílio e Censura da Tropicália" (thanks chatgpt)
Love this 😂 -- will try it out on the BR-PR title. If this goes viral, I owe you a present (but not chatgpt).
@@Bandsplaining I hope so, let's cross our fingers.
Don’t @channelsplaining him
@@Bandsplaining Guessing this worked because im here now lmao
@@Bandsplaining still working!!! great video btw
As an American fan of Brazilian music, I am glad to see you clearly do your due diligence in research and put in the work to make this video cover a wide array of the Tropicalia movement.
Just to add my two cents about the movement from a foreign perspective…
As brilliant of songwriters as Ze, Gil and Veloso were, as equally talented and insane musicians os mutantes were, as powerful and beautiful vocalists that Gal Costa and Jorge Ben were, I truly believe much of Tropicalia movement owes its identity to Rogerio Duprat. The cinematic and beautiful orchestrations in so many quintessential Tropicalia albums really help the movement feel like an expansion of the sgt pepper era of psychedelia while also having its own distinctly Brazilian flair. His string and horn arrangements are always exactly what they need to be and add a level of musical sophistication to many Tropicalia songs.
Some notable Tropicalia albums with Duprat in the conductors chair…(costa 1969, Caetano Veloso white album, Gilberto Gil 1968 and 1969, the first 3 os mutantes albums) as well as many great albums afterwards (Chico Buarque Construcao, Erasmo Carlos self titled, Nara Leao dez anos depoz)
Fantastic video. As a Brasileiro myself, a vinyl collector with more than 1,000 albums just of Brazilian music, a journalist and DJ, I have to say there are a few tiny "incorrections" (or more like misconceptions) however, I've never seen a more detailed and well explained video on such an important movement. Thanks for sharing a little bit of Brazilian's amazing music history. Get in touch if you ever need to bounce off ideas for more Brazilian music videos. Cheers.
Second that. Better than anything I’ve seen on the subject, including anything made by brazilians
Just got into vinyl, my first ones were of Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66. Love Brazilian music. I would love some recommendations so that I can go look for them, thanks!
@@hugogarcia9797 This list is a great reference of Brazilian albums. Obviously there are others but if you get ANY of the top 10 albums in this list you'll be well served. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rolling_Stone_Brasil_100_Greatest_Brazilian_Music_Records
As a brazilian and as almost eyewitness, I must say : you did a outstanding research. Excellent video
Não fez não.
@@renatolima1166 Would you care to elaborate?
I really like how Brazillian Prog Rock evolved in the 70's
You have Os Mutantes with their 1974-1976 lineup, recording some of their best albums, such as "Tudo Foi Feito Pelo Sol" and "Cavaleiros Negros", alongside the most prominent prog band here: O Terço; recording "Criaturas da Noite" and "Casa Encatanda".
Not even mentioning the cultural movements in Minas Gerais, reaching it's peak with "Clube da Esquina" by Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges, being considered the best MPB record in Brazil by critics and fans alike!
Had one of their albums. Banging shit! Loved it.
Midwest African American here. Absolutely loved this video. As well as the Zambia rock movement done before. Nothing brings me more joy than this amazing history being shared.
Hi.
I'm Brazilian and I think W.I.T.C.H.'s songs are great! They really rock!
ZAMROCK!
Tropicalia is such a phenomenal musical/cultural movement, possibly one of the most musically captivating scenes in history, thanks for covering it!
’Bat’ also sounds like ‘bate,’ meaning ‘beat’ in Portuguese, which ties into the rhythm of macumba, a macumba beat. The negative space left by the bat wings on the lyric sheet resembles the lozenge shape on the Brazilian flag 🇧🇷. This demonstrates how they would start with an international pop culture reference and cleverly bring it back to a distinctly Brazilian cultural symbol.
Nice video! For the post tropicalia era music, here’s my suggestion: Clube da Esquina!
This mineiro movement was the maturity of tropicalism’s hibridity and musical genres mixing. Also, Milton Nascimento, Clube da Esquina’s central character, gained quite the recognition worldwide, recording with jazz legends, such as Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny (also, Esperanza Spalding’s latest album features him and his songs). Clube da Esquina had it’s influence on a number of artists worldwide.
Musically, there’s samba and bossa, but quite hidden, in a mixture of Beatles rock, traditional music from Minas Gerais, jazz, Andean music, Brazilian northeastern music, classical music and sacred chants, with lots and lots modal harmony. Also very visual and cinematic lyrics, with a high dose of criticism towards the dictatorship.
verdade clube da esquina representa MInas Gerais
Clube da Esquine might be one of the best brazilian albums of all time
Great video! I'm from Bahia, Brazil, and, so, this video pretty much talks about people from my region, as much part of the Brazilian history, so it touches me seriously. As someone reminded in the comments, Tropicália as a movement was very much influenced by Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago, as much as the Modernist movement in the 1920s, and, so, it's a follow-up to that idearium. Tropicália, the name itself, came from the artist Hélio Oiticica, whose art exposition had that name. So, the real start of Tropicália wasn't exactly from the music, but the fine arts. And Tropicália had also cinematic repercussions: Glauber Rocha's "O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro" and Joaquim Pedro de Andrade's "Macunaíma", movies by two filmmakers from the Cinema Novo movement. There's also literary connections in Torquato Neto's poetry or in "PanAmérica" by José de Agrippino de Paula. I know that the focus here is on the music, but it's important to assure that Tropicália was a multiartistic movement.
As for a Post-Tropicália repertoire, I'd suggest not only Novos Baianos, but also the so-called Malditos da MPB: Walter Franco, Sérgio Sampaio, Jorge Mautner, Jards Macalé, Raul Seixas (in spite of being more identified with the Brazilian rock)... I could tell also the Udigrudi Pernambucano (Lula Côrtes, Zé Ramalho, Alceu Valença) or the Vanguarda Paulista (Arrigo Barnabé, Tetê Espíndola, Itamar Assumpção)...
By the way, I've been follow this channel even before this video, the suggestions of African and Soviet rock came from me thanks to you, Bandsplaining! So, this video is like a tip on the hat for us for us, Brazilians. So, thanks!
Caetano is an absolute legend! He was actually performing in my hometown a few months back, but my friend, who likes the same music I do, only told me literally the day after it happened.... Awesome video!
Basta ser comuna e viver a base da lei rouanet e dar golpe na empregada e não querer pagar os seus direitos trabalhistas aí vira uma lenda aliás uma lendia
I was a kid in NYC in the late 70s/early early 80s. My extended family had emigrated to the USA from the French Caribbean in the late 60s, and these artists musicians along with others were the record albums, 8 track tapes and cassettes of my uncles and older cousins. At family gatherings these were the soundtracks of our lives.
That’s awesome! The language barrier wasn’t so much an issue then?
@Bandsplaining Oh HECK no! I grew up listening to international music- besides the fact that many artists from Latin America and Europe made recordings in French to reach a bigger market, it was just common in Caribbean culture (my family's from Haiti) to listen to albums in foreign languages. Ceclia Cruz, Gilberto Gil, Edith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri, Manu DiBango, Charles Aznavour, Fela Kuti- from Brazil to Greece to Africa! Love Your Channel!!
12:50 Not really...
They actually both have Gilberto as their first names! It's just that João Gilberto had what we call a composite name: a iberian naming convention that gives someone two first names, his actual last name was Pereira de Oliveira. For example, the full first name of actor Pedro Pascal is José Pedro. Brazilians of varying ancestries even appropriated this naming tradition in order to honor their ancestries: brazilian actress of japanese ancestry Ana Hikari has both Ana and Hikari as her first names, whereas her last name is Takenaka Rosa (this is pretty common amongst brazilians of japanese ancestry actually).
Also, props to you for actually doing the research and not assuming our j's are pronounced like h's as it is in spanish! It's difficult to find this minimal demonstration of research even in supposed serious reporters/reporting channels.
Thank you for this clarification!
Dude i just listened to most of the iconic Tropicália albums this summer, and read up on it quite a bit aswell so this is perfect timing!!
Bit of a long comment, but here I go. 1. There's a very small detail about Carmen Miranda that's kinda key to understand why Brazilians have a complicated relationship with her. She was born in Portugal. Even though she grew up here, the fact that she was born Portuguese and not Brazilian gets brought up a lot when discussing her legacy. That's because the idea of a stereotypical portrayal of our culture looks way worse when it's done by someone who hails from the country that colonized us. 2. The "Bat Macumba" version by Os Mutantes is an example of poesia concreta, which is a modernist poetic style developed in Brazil in the 20th Century that played a lot with not only meaning, but the actual shape of words and phrases as well. Thus the wings of a bat! 3. I actually think a fantastic post-Tropicália album is the eponymous debut album from Secos & Molhados, who were led by the great Ney Matogrosso. One of the greatest albums ever 4. Chico Buarque eventually did a song in the 70s called Jorge Maravilha that was a rock song about how the military hated him, but their daughters all listened to his music. It became a massive hit.
Carmem Miranda beign Portuguese is actually just a recent problem, as she came to Brazil only 3 months old, and when asked she usually answered that she was Born in Rio, so it was only a problem in the 21th century when that information became widespread, I the 30s she was the face of Samba until her Hollywood times.
Absolutely not a single person in Brazil cares that Carmen Miranda - or anyone else for that matter - was born in Portugal. Like millions of other immigrants, grandparents of millions of living Brazilians, she was born abroad and raised here. It’s completely ordinary, common and uneventful and has absolutely no cultural or political significance.
@@PedroxCarvalhoninguém liga pra Carmen Miranda mesmo. Botar uma salada de frutas na cabeça e ir cantar pra gringo é meu ovo
Thank you for the context. It kind of pisses me off as a Latin American when people speak for what “we” should want. I don’t like when Spaniards or Europeans represent my people, especially stereotypically and for profit when they already have more wealth from owning & killing us, getting most of their wealth from the continued exploitation of our land, and being the face of our culture when they sought to erase it…but sure. Tell us how to feel about it. It’s giving talking over indigenous/ African/mixed people who have been on the land forever-a favorite pastime of recent European immigrants and colonizers in Latin America so I won’t deny you live there. 😉☺️
There's one inaccuracy in the title, the left did not hate Caetano, the audience that night did not represent the left, it was merely a musical rejection, I should know, I was part of the resistance to the dictartoship.
Please tell us more. Did you stay in Brazil?
Were you at PUC? it seems a classic Paulistana middle class rage, it seems some things never change.
Hey man, big brazilian fan here, loved the video! Ty for introducing me to zamrock and peruvian cumbia!
Have you heard of Chico Science e Nação Zumbi? Another legendary northeastern brazilian group, but from the 90s, who created manguebeat, a unique blend of traditional northeastern sounds, especially the percurssive maracatu, with psychodelic rock, metal, and more. Intense drums along some heavy and trippy riffage, over socially conscious lyrics, deeply rooted in northeartern culture. Unique stuff, you should check it out!
I only had a surface knowledge of Tropicalia before watching this video, but I absolutely love the first self titled Os Mutantes album! I think you hit the nail on the head, "Panis et Circenses" does have a Pet Sounds vibe to it, which is what drove my interest in the album, as a fan of 60s pop and Psych. "Adeus, Maria Fulô" is one of my favorites on that album, along with "Senhor F", and that blistering version of "Bat Macumba". A bunch of the main figures in the movement sounded familiar to me, and I realized I had liked a few songs by the artists on Spotify. I'm going to dig deeper into some of those albums after watching this, so thank you!
Great video, as always. If you wanna go down the rabbit hole of short-lived brazilian musical movements, I highly recommend Vanguarda Paulista (from the 80s; check Clara Crocodilo by Arrigo Barnabé and Beleléu, Leléu, Eu by Itamar Assumpção, both are nice introductions, and things go from deconstructed samba to avant-prog with Stockhausen samples) and Manguebeat (from 90s Pernambuco, a response to the tech and computer boom; more of a hard rock fused with regional beats, check Chico Science & Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S/A).
You'll also found that one of the most creative post-punk ever was being made in São Paulo. You can listen some good compilations of the scene in the Não Wave/Não São Paulo albums (yes, the name was taken from No Wave NY, but it sounds nothing like just a ripoff of DNA or The Contortions).
Thank you for this!
SP postpunk was fire.
Proud to hail from the same city (and state) from which many artists tied to the Tropicália movement come from, as well. Thanks for covering this, Bandsplaining! 🇧🇷👍🏻
@@luciofidelis4620 Bahia?
your research work is amazing on this video. Congratulations! This beef between MPB and Jovem Guarda happens until today between fans. MPB fans called the musicians of Jovem Guarda "alienated", but they ignore the HUGE influence. First, the name of the Rock movement in Brazil was Iê-iê-iê (because of Beatles "She Loves You" song). Jovem Guarda was just the name of the TV show, but nowadays people use the term Jovem Guarda as the movement, more than iê-iê-iê. So, iê-iê-iê was the movement that created the guitar culture in Brazil. Lots of guitar brands came in that era, and the most important one is Giannini with the Supersonic model. The most important guitarists in Brazil, Pepeu Gomes and Lanny Gordin used Giannini Supersonics. Without iê-iê-iê and jovem guarda we probably wouldn't have tropicália. I would love a video about jovem guarda
Though it’s a little later on in the decade, post-Tropicalia, and his 14th[!] studio album), Jorge Ben’s “África Brasil” is an ESSENTIAL, if obvious, choice on my list of best records by Brazilian artists. Forgive me if you mentioned it in passing and I missed it. Also: INCREDIBLE work on this video, sir!
Clube da Esquina, by Clube da Esquina
A Tábua de Esmeralda, by Jorge Ben
Alucinação, by Belchior
Secos e Molhados, by Secos e Molhados
There's a lot more, but I think these were four of the best albuns that followed Tropicália.
Excellent list!
Wow !! Amazing video ! Really deep and thorough research !! Felicidades from South America !!! Im subscribing right now !!
The albums of Veloso, Gil, Os Mutantes, Costa, Ze, Ben Jor, Novos Baianos, Buarque, Borges and Nascimientos during the late 60’s-early 70’s are brilliant.
Hey, congratulations on the great video! Maybe for your next video you can mention Marcos Valle - Previsão do Tempo, one of my all time favorites. It's an awesome mix of MPB and Soul/funk, and charged with symbolic protest against the military dictatorship ❤
Man that was electric, and literally about artist musicians and a movement i knew absolutely 0 about. What was happening in Brazil kinda makes the musical counter culture happening in the USA at the same time seem pale in comparison. Those guys were not only amazingly eclectic musicians, they were brave.
Also, isn’t it funny how underground or avant garde or non conformist musical movements that seek to break the norms of the status quo end up having rigid definitions and any followers or artist that break the “rules” of the non conformist by not confirming, obviously thinking of the punk movement but there are countless others, end up being admonished and castigated for daring to think outside of the outside box
You are very good. Thank to your channel I have never traveled that much musically. Thank you for your good work!
That’s pure gold, deep understanding of Brazil’s cultural music movement, analyzing down to lyrics and intentions of the artists who wrote them, interviews, videos, you won’t see any better stuff about
This channel is amazing!
Hey Bandsplaining, amazing video about Tropicalia. You even included clips from the BBC documentary series, Brasil Brasil. Also, I'm still waiting on that Luiz Gonzaga or Forró video. I hope you can make it soon. 🎸🇺🇸💙🇧🇷🥁
Excellent video! Took so much courage for these artists to do what they did under violent dictatorship. It's so easy to imagine some of these songs like "Baby" and "Bat Macumba" as just old catchy radio hits from Brazil, specially with the way old media is repurposed and diluted for corporate use today. To think that both of THESE songs were stepping stones for Veloso and Gil to get exiled is just crazy. lol
Would be great if you did a video on the Argentinean counterculture music movement during their times under dictatorship/military rule as well! 60s, 70s, 80s.
Great video! In 2007 I was in school and had to make a article about vanguards and pick the tropicalia theme out of blue. Since then I understood music and poetry as a contemporary people and saw a lot of interviews and documentary material about it. You mad a great job in this piece, it really give a context! There so many music and details that could be added in a longer time, wish we could see the video with the integral songs!
If I have an English speaker friend in future I will recommend this video for hours of conversation afterwards
Fantastic work as always, man! THANK YOU!!!
Im Brazilian. This is an accurate report of the music scene in Brazil. Well done
7:10 "Roda-viva" (living wheel) is more likely translated as "flywheel". These lyrics compares a flywheel with brazilian dictatorship, an out-of-control wheel that came to take over the "most beautiful rose bush to exist" (freedom to work), the guitar (freedom to create), the memories and the destinies.
This was another great video, Bandsplaining. I learned a lot watching this.
On top of doing an amazing job researching all this information, you also went above and beyond with the pronunciation
Very nice way of storytelling. Well done!
Amazing documentary on a genre I used to listen a lot but knew almost nothing about the context, great as always!
Incredible. Never would have thought someone can butthurt so much over an electric guitars. Sure there’s much more to this, like rejection of American capitalism, but still. And this guy Veloso.. wow, a true rebel. Special thanks for adding timestamps with a track list, found a lot of music gems, like Nara Leao and Novos Baianos ❤
Well researched and presented as always, the most underrated channel on this site for sure.
I have to congratulate your research, also your production and image selection, really impressive, I have never seen a material like this coming from a gringo. There were things I only found out with this video even being Brazilian. Thank you for making such a toughtfull and deep video about our culture.
I also feel like I have to point out some things that bother me when gringos talk about Brazil. I think the Samba-focused introduction is really indicative of you being a gringo, since there were so many more musical styles with their own historic and social context behind Tropicalia, but Samba/Bossa is the only one with international projection (especially this urban 20th century Rio Samba you depict). This approach in the introduction is reflected later on as a tension between MPB vs Jovem Guarda, which is in fact true, but there was also a wider tension between urban, young, middle-upper class people and the rest of society, not only the Left but also traditional society. For example, one of the very traditional cultures that the video does not mention is the Caipira culture, from a big part of the inner country. One of the artists in the photos, Jair Rodrigues, is pictured alongside MPB/Bossa Nova artists, but he originally came from the Caipira culture and was made very famous with songs with rural themes. If look deep into Caipira and sort of related Nordestino cultures, you can go as far as medieval iberan/muslim music with touches of Indian sounds (just to give one example).
Also the video makes a charicature of João Goulart and the motivations behind the military coup, as if Goulart was just mismanaging the country and there was the risk of discontent and revolt. Actually Goulart was a very popular leader who was conducting major reforms in Brazil, in the sense of class struggle reforms, taking away power from traditional elites and creating solid welfare institutions, developing sovereing industrial capacity, and flerting with socialism and anti-imperialism. The military coup was widely backed by the USA in order to halt this movement and continue colonial dependence managed by a consortium of foreing capital and local elites, so a rejection of electric guitar and other gringo cultural elements was not just a Leftist or a traditionalist thing, it was also a very alive rejection of the immediate effects of US imperialism on the wider population. The military dictatorship was brutal not only with communists and Leftists, but also with poor and black people in favelas, and it was all in the context of an unprecedented cultural invasion by the US in the Cold War, tightly associated with political control and neocolonialism. Urban upper and middle class Tropicalists, especially Caetano, presented a different approach to handling this: a form of capitulation with passive resistance, which actually became the norm today, so we can say his approach "won". But, you know, it was still capitulation. Our country is still colonized.
This is a really outstanding documentary!! censorship from both ends of the political spectrum. . I have enjoyed Os Mutantes and other bands mostly represented on compilations for a long time but this is the first great breakdown of the history I have heard. .really outstanding. .
Hey! I loved this video. You should have included Arthur Verocai! He’s a great musician from this time in Brazil. His music has influenced some popular rap and R&b songs today
Parabéns, ficou foda! Já acompanho seus vídeos há algum tempo e esse você inovou como nunca nos recursos e na complexidade de construção da história. 🇧🇷❤✨
Look at you putting out another banger and introducing the curious from around the world to yet another story from the nation of music.
Very good research.As german and married with a woman 30 years from Bahia I am,was and always will be interestet
in the cultural history of this giant called Brasil (nunca with z).
I love the brazilian music but i am also interstellar in the music of the southern states of the U.S.
My dream is to visit one day the Mardi Gras.
The magic of marching bands,percussion and brass,simple electrifying.
This is a great overview. The two albums that Veleso made in exile are both amazing.
Very interesting music and history lesson. And useful to me too since I have been encountering some Brazilian music at work. Nice to have more depth and context on these artists and styles of music.
Wow!!! Outstanding research, incredible video. I grow up that time of the Tropicalia in Brasil. See that revolution happens was priceless. All those singers are amazing, But Caetano Chico e Milton are in another dimension. Even so was in the 80's " Lingua " of Caetano its something very special . Tks.
caramba um monte de coisa que eu nao sabia
big arigato you gringo
'o leaozinho' is one of my favorite songs.
Amazing and interesting! Thanks for this!
Thanks for covering this era. My favorite MPB album is Gil's Expresso 2222, documenting his return to Bahia.
I am Brazilian, and this was one of the best analyzes I have ever seen about Tropicalia. Congrats!
This is great work. I learned a ton.
I loved your video! The attention to detail in how everything was pieced together really came into view.
I would like to suggest another Brazilian musical movement that, as in the case of Tropicália, was influenced by such a great number of cultural sources and gained equal importance: Manguebeat.
It was an on-top movement that belonged to Chico Science. It joined such traditional northeastern rhythms as maracatu with rock, hiphop, and electronic music to change the musical panorama.
AND besides being musical, Manguebeat manifested itself through visual expressions such as paintings and graffiti and practiced social and environmental criticism to the neglect of urban peripheries and mangroves of Recife, the capital of Pernambuco located northeast of Brazil !!
I'm really enjoying the increasing number of international content creators finally shining a light on Brazil and all our wonders... Keep coming to Brazil, foreigners! Keep returning to Brazil, my fellow expats!
well done video and research, i'm sure my fellow brazilians will add small corrections and adendums, but you got the core of the story right on. for anyone interested in more brazilian music from the period i'd say to check out the northeastern scene of the late 60's and 70's, a good start point could be the band Ave Sangria.
The musicians that made up the tropicalia movement continued to create great music after Veloso and Gil were sent to exile in London. Caetano Veloso's Transa, Gilberto Gil's Expresso 2222, Gal Costa's India, Tom Zé's Estudando do Samba, Nara Leao's Dez Anos Depois, Jorge Ben's Forca Bruta, A Tabua de Esmerelda, and Africa Brasil, and the Gilberto Gil/Jorge Ben joint effort Gil e Jorge are among the greatest Brazilian albums ever recorded.
Really loved this... so interesting...many thanks.. love brazillian music .
It really surprised me how well researched this video was, whenever foreigners make videos about our culture and history they're mostly vague and scripted off generic sources like wikipedia and whatever article appears first on a google search.
However you showed some great knowledge on Brazilian music and history, as well as a good understanding of our language, I really appreciate the inclusion of translations and subtitles. You did an amazing job with this video!!
Insane production and research skills. Congrats!
That’s well done video, thank you for the good work! We need to remember when Brasil became self reference in music and a very rich content was being made.
Congratulations! I loved the entire story and everything about this documentary. Caetano and Gilberto are two of the greatest of all-times! Personally, I’ve follow up more Caetano’s career (indeed, I have been honored to play as opening act of his latest shows in my hometown Rosario, Argentina ❤❤❤).
So by all means, thanks a lot for this valuable content, for the interest, dedication and kindness you’ve put on it, it is very appreciated.
PS: I am very interested in Caetano’s exile time in the UK, because I’m familiar with the albums he recorded in that moment (Transa and the other that I won’t Google now), which are also very political and reactionary.
OK, thanks again, and keep going!
There is so much god music after Tropicália to write in a comment. But I will try to suggest one movement that is not always cited: the udigrud.
Udigrud is the pernambucan response to Tropicália, and the brazilian focus to the center-south of the country. Because they are from Northeast, they are underground (udigrud).
Alceu Valença and Ze Ramalho began in this scene, but the most iconic band is Ave Sangria (blood bird).
Wow! I came across your channel and I absolutely loved it! Great job
Another similarity between Americans and Brazilians: they struggle with irony
There are a lot of contradictions in both countries, but could you explain it better what you meant?
Excellent video! Very well researched and presented. Thanks you!
THIS IS WOW - picked up on this when i was in Brazil 30 years ago - by then of course, everything was OK. People listened to everything. i was amazed it was so eclectic. you can hear all the influences in TITAS Thanks for explaining how it started.
Just a little observation. In batmacumba song the lyrics resembles a bat but also the brazilian flag.
Great video, keep up with the good work amigo. :)
"Loki?" by Arnaldo Baptista (Os Mutantes) is a masterpiece. It's a rock album without eletric guitar, just piano, drums, bass and Rogerio's Duprat orchestration. Arnaldo is a true genious.
This documentary has very high production value, is well researched and presented. My parents who were musicians from Rio de Janeiro fled the country during the dictatorship, with my brother and I in tow. My mother, Regina Werneck, states in a short doc made about her, how a bomb went off right outside our patio, one night, when I was very young. We are now facing a fascist regime very close to taking power here in the US. Resist the agressors.
Amazing video. Thank you. Oh I love every single song here. I love the epiphany of Tropicalia, which is that freedom is the culture.
Thanks!
Impecável! Parabéns!
Macumba é um instrumento e muitos brasileiros referem-se às religiões de matriz africanas também. Gostei muito do seu mini doc. E inclusive essa parte da nossa história é retratada como arte na literatura também.
I am Brazilian and I say that your knowledge of this is stoning. Thanks.
Novos Baianos' "Acabou Chorare" (1972) was also a landmark feature of that time.
This is great - thank you!
I recommend a really good tropicália album called "Os Brazões". They were a band that played with the singers at the song festivals, it's a very good listening and quite underground
Chega de Saudade (1959), Tropicália (1968), Clube da Esquina (1972), Tribalistas (2002).
The auditorium was not in Catholic University in Rio, but in Sao Paulo. It was - and still is - called TUCA - Theatre of the Cacholic University
One of the best Brazilian albums post-Tropicália is called "Krig-ha, Bandolo!" by Raul Seixas.
I love your passion on this. And quite rightly so. ⚡
Great video. Very informative. I enjoyed is very much.
I am impressed with your knowledge on the subject. Congratulations.
Thank you!
Fascinating video! Learning about music trends and social movements around the world, such as in Brazil, is so important. Thank you
Nice video, interesting. Just found you. Thanks, algorithm.
Sorry I'm late for the Brazilian summons, traffic was awful
Caetano Velosos debut album is the Sgt. Pepper of Tropicalia.
Solid content. Dude did his research and added several gems along the way. All of those movements are a way to try to "unify" Brazil from North to South. And it's been going on since late 30's in Brazil as explained in the video. As there always was a fear of Brazil splitting into different countries as Hispanic America due all the cultural and economical differences between Brazilian regions. I love the art, but the puritanism in trying to bring a size fits all for Brazil is a sin committed by both left and right in the country. The cool thing about Brazil is exactly how different we can be from each other while speaking the same language and sharing the same borders and all Brazilian genres should be celebrated regardless of political agenda.
Brazilian music is so rich and wild. Great video on an interesting topic.
As a brazilian, i just have to say: such a great content man!!
Check out "Acabou Chorare" by Novos Baianos. Greetings from Argentina!
Seconded - “Misterio do Planeta” is such a fantastic song. Rolling Stone Brasil put this album on top of their 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums of all Time list…
Banger vid. Always loved this genre.