Top 10 best musics from Tropicália

O Tropicalismo was a musical movement that provoked a true revolution in Brazilian culture. As a result, young musicians will achieve a huge reach and influence not only that generation as well as a series of future generations.

As the first manifestations of Tropicália in 1967, or movement took truly proportions consolidated in 1968. As criações, corajosas, foram compostas during a historical period marked by military ditadura (1964-1985).

Os principais nomes dessa geração inspiring foram Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes and Gal Costa. Relembre now as songs that mark the time.

1. Happiness happiness (Caetano Veloso)

Walking against or wind
Sem lenço e sem document
No sun of quase dezembro
Eu vou
Or the sun is distributed in crimes
Espaçonaves, guerrilhas
Pretty cardinal em
Eu vou
Em faces of presidents
Em big beijos of love
Em dentes, pernas, bandeiras
Bomba e Brigitte Bardot

Happiness happiness também conhecido hair great public like Sem lenço e sem document It was presented as a third party at the MPB TV Record Festival (in 1967) and was consecrated as one of the greatest songs of Tropicália.

Caetano Veloso was two leaders of the group and appeared with an Argentine rock group that used electric guitars. O alvoroço was established because electric instruments were not received as festivities.

From the distance above we can see how the composition was intended to be a kind of manifesto, criticizing even openly you intellectuals of esquerda. Ao longo da letra Caetano deals with two new aesthetic rumors from Brazil.

It is about an easy song, current and cheia de atitude that became a true illustration of your tempo.

2. That hug (Gilberto Gil)

Or Rio de Janeiro continues beautiful
Or Rio de Janeiro continues to be
Or Rio de Janeiro, Fevereiro e Março

Hello, Hello, Realengo
That hug!
Alô torcida do Flamengo
That hug

Chacrinha continues
Balançando a pança
And buzinando a moça
And commanding massa
E keep giving
As ordered no terreiro

A declaration of love to Rio de Janeiro feita by um baiano, also could be summarized in the letter of That hug.

Na passagem acima, which composes only the initial stretch of music, we see a series of cultural references linked to the city that formed or served as a Brazilian musical dinner for some decades.

To music quotes elements of the mass culture as for example or characteristic bairro do subúrbio (Realengo), or tv program (or Chacrinha) and o mais popular time de futebol carioca (or Flamengo). That hug Carrega um olhar solar, otimista, and works as a record of seu tempo.

3. Panis et circenses (Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil sung by Os Mutantes)

I wanted to sing
Minha song illuminated by the sun
I released the panos on the mastros not ar
Soltei os tigres e os leões quintais us
More people in the jantar room
Busy São to be born and to die

Mandei fazer
Of pure luminous aço um punhal
To kill or meu love and matei
It's five hours on the central avenue
More people in the jantar room
Busy São to be born and to die

To music composed in partnership between Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso ganhou or world in the voice of the Os Mutantes group, a band formed by Sérgio Dias, Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee.

Or that we see above a stretch of the composition that was recorded in 1968, not an album Tropicália ou Panis Et Circenses.

The title of the song is deeply deceived and the face of reference to politics do pão e circus (established during the Roman Empire). At the time it was used for food and entertainment to distract a populace in many faziam politicians or who want to.

A critic here appears personified as the people of the jantar room, a futile elite and completely alheia - same alienated - due to the Brazilian political scene of repression.

4. Geleia geral (Torquato Neto and Gilberto Gil)

A poet deflates bandeira
E a tropical manhã begins
Resplendent, cadent, fagueira
Num heat girassol com alegria
Na geleia geral brasileira
What the Jornal do Brasil announces

Ê bumba iê iê boi
Year that you see, more than foi
Ê bumba iê iê iê
É a mesma dança, meu boi

A expressão Geleia Geral has originated in a verse by Décio Pignatari and became a song-manifesto by Torquato Neto and Gilberto Gil.

Music is quite representative of the movement to mix rhythms - rock and dance - and also a series of cultural references - like or poem Canção do Exílio e o Anthropophagic Manifestoby Oswald de Andrade.

The verses acima são just a short stretch of the song that is an emblematic hino of the Tropicalist movement. It treats here of a praise to our hybrid, multiple, rich culture, and the same time as a manifesto in relation to the repressive time in which it was lived - all exposed in a misleading, provocative letter.

5. Lindonéia (Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil)

Na front do espelho
I know that no visse
Miss
Pretty feia
Lindonéia disappeared

Despedaçados run over
Nas ruas dead puppies
Policemen watching
Or sun churning the fruits
Bleeding out
Ai meu love
A solidão will kill me from dor

Sung by Nara Leão, Lindonéia It was composed by Caetano and Gilberto Gil and arose from a daily news item that narrated or disappeared a non-suburban Lindonéia.

Rubens Gerchman após ler a news compôs a canvas To bela Lindonéia (1966) and Nara asked for Caetano to transform history into music.

It is curious how Nara Leão does not appear in the photograph of the album cover, as well as her disappeared personage.

To music carrega um I play between or private space and or public space Represented, for example, he is intimidated by his house and his hair is half of being on the road with the police watching.

6. Maternal heart (Vicente Celestino)

Disse um campônio to your beloved
Minha idolized, say what or what
For you I will kill, I will roubar
Embora sadness you cause me, woman
Prove that I love you that I love you
Venero teus olhos, teu porte, teu ser
More say you order, I hope
For you it does not matter, kill or die
E ela this year compônio, to jump
Louca paixão is true
Parts já e pra mim vá look for
Of your heart or heart
E to run or campônio partiu
As a raio na estrada sumiu
Your beloved, who louca ficou
To chorar na estrada tombou

Maternal heart It is the second faixa of the historical album Tropicália ou Panis Et Circenses.

A song mixed or tragic as melodramatic and for this reason has made me interpret the composition as an ironic tom, from pastiche, from parody.

To music, which has the prominence of the strings of Rogério Duprat and the strong interpretation of Caetano, sublimates the difference of tropicalism for a bossa nova. A letter stands out to conquer daquela geração ao I have been able to free himself from a musical formula.

7. Miserere nobis (Gilberto Gil)

Miserere-re nobis
Pray, pray pro nobis
É will not always be, ô, iaiá
It is not always, always will be
Já não we are like na chegada
Draft and lean, waiting or jantar
Na borda do prato is limited to janta
As espinhas do peixe de volta pro mar

Or title of the song - Miserere nobis - It is a Latin expression that appears in the Catholic Missas. Please note that Tropicália composers were raised in the Northeast and Southwest, but indirectly, with a religious influence. A geração de Gil e Caetano was set from a Christian matrix and that transparent interference in the group's poetics.

A music opens with um tom solene, similar to what we find in religious cults, and the lyrics faz um jogo as or sangue de cristo e o vinho. The composition of Gilberto Gil to food had a political role, also highlighting questioning and deceived character dessa geração.

8. Industrial park (Tom Zé)

Is somebody requesting
E use,
Is somebody requesting
E use,
Because it's made, made, made, made in Brazil.
Because it's made, made, made, made in Brazil.

Retocai or céu de anil
Bandeirolas no cordão
Great party throughout the nation.
Awakening as prayers
Or industrial advance
Vem trazer nossa redenção.

Tem garota-propaganda
Aeromoça and tenderness not letter,
Enough olhar na parede,
Minha joy
Num instant it was replaced

Industrial park é um record of seu tempo and emphasizes or jogo the power relations between the countries. Fala-se here gives importation and exportation not only of consumer goods as well as values ​​and culture.

Tom Zé highlights the anthropophagic relationship of Brazil as a constitutive traço of our culture and also sublims to mixture of tempos (a dimension of the archaic that is revealed as modern in a country that lived on the ditature). Convém lembrar that Brazil since the time was still a rural goal and an urban goal, a true hybrid space.

A letter from the Baiano composer also faces an acid comment about what is not true of our industrialization process and criticizes a series of political escorts of that command or country.

9. Enquanto seu lobo no vem (Caetano Veloso)

Let's go to a hidden forest, my love
Let's go to the avenue
Let's go through the sidewalks, not high my love
Há uma cordilheira on asphalt

A Estação Primeira da Mangueira passes on long tours
(Os clarins da military band)
It passes through the Avenida Presidente Vargas
(Os clarins da military band)
President Vargas, President Vargas, President Vargas
(Os clarins da military band)

Enquanto seu lobo no vem uma deeply political song, the demonstrations of the climate of oppression that have taken place in Brazil during the military period. To contemporary music of anti-regime demonstrations and past events. Despite the struggle, or gloomy tom is established (a melody comes as a supposed to be light, of self, and is gaining weight).

A composition is a kind of prenuncio a time that months ofpois or wolf (metaphorically disposed) sees me rise Caetano and Gil, you two maiores nomes da Tropicália, for or exile.

Or result gives é uma music incitement to protest and to guerrilla. She recounts an acirramento of the position of two tropicalistas against the years of chumbo.

10. Mom, Couragem (Caetano Veloso and Torquato Neto)

Mama, mama, no chore
To life is the same
I was embora
Mama, mama, no chore
You will never go back there
Mama, mama, no chore
To life is the same
I want the same and I'm here

Mama, mama, no chore
Glue some cloths to wash
Leia um romance
Veja as contas do mercado

Despite the breeding being from Caetano com Torquato, Mom, Courage ficou eternalized in the voice of Gal Costa. O title, for the time being, was withdrawn from a Brecht peça that served as an inspiration for you from Bahia.

In a more superficial reading, we can say that the song is about a more concerned person with the life of a child in a large city. Many people, porém, face a biographical lecture of the song, as is this fosse a possible dialogue between Torquato and a sua mãe Salomé. It is worth noting that the Morreu musician, in a tragic way, committed suicide barely 28 years old.

Mom, Courage é um harsh, cruel and real portrait of a relationship of me and filho daquela geração.

Learn more about a Tropicália

The main names of Tropicália are not the field of foram music: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Gal Costa, Torquato Neto, Guilherme Araujo and Tom Zé.

More of the tropicalist movement ended up reverberating in different artistic areas (not music but also theater, plastic arts, poetry, not cinema).

Independently of the year, the artists intend to carry out a critical analysis of Brazilian culture, provoking deep reflection and demonstrating a true aversion to a dull common place.

O nome do group was consecrated in 1968, when Nelson Motta redigiu and publicou a manifesto jornal Ultima Hora do Rio de Janeiro chamado Tropicalist Crusade.

Havia um desejo comum between the artists of answer, experiment, provoke an aesthetic innovation.

A vontade to promote um cultural cannibalism It was translated, for example, not using improvave combinations of music - composers mix rock, bolero, bossa nova, samba. We do not promote a mixture of rhythms as well as use unthinkable instruments that we mix or erudite as popular.

This cultural boiling was broadcast live, through two Song Festivals exhibited on TV.

When the repression opened, with the implementation of Institutional Ato No. 5, in December of 1968, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, just chave do movimento, were inmates. Later they will end up being exiled to England

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