Soul Jazz Records Presents Tropicalia: a Brazilian Revolution in Sound

Además del disco, esto:  http://www.barbican.org.uk/tropicalia 

Tropicalia is one of the most significant cultural movements in Brazil encompassing music, film, visual art and theatre.
‘Tropicália’ is the first album to bring together all the key artists involved in the movement – Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Gal Costa and more.

The Tropicália movement was born in 1968, a momentous year around the world. In Brazil, army violence that killed three protesters in the opening months of 1968 failed to keep students from protesting the four-year-old repressive Brazilian military dictatorship. It was against this extraordinary backdrop that Tropicália arrived.

Mixing psychedelic rock, avant-garde musique concrete (tape loops, sound experiments), samba, funk and soul, Tropicália was so radical – and its social implications so politically profound - that its leading protagonists, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, were arrested, imprisoned and finally exiled in 1969.
Tropicália’s unique ideology mixed high art with mass culture. Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy, a revolution in Brazilian sound with a legacy later to be international