We untangle the complex and sometimes seemingly contradictory messages regarding religion, the occult and the supernatural that came from Tropicália in Part 2 of our Feature Series on Tropicália.
In our first of four parts covering the music of Tropicália (1967-1969), we look first at the songs that epitomize the spirit of the movement which birthed a new uniquely Brazilian cultural identity (clockwise starting top left: Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Rita Lee, Gilberto Gil and Tom Zé center)
Inspectah Deck wants you to know: “I can feel you, feeling me, feeling you, feeling this. If you know what I mean.” –“Gatecrasher” from Czartificial Intelligence. (Pictured Above: Joseph Campbell, who brought us the theory of the monomyth, with Czarface’s latest release.)
If you store your vinyl purely in alphabetical order with no other guiding principals, you may begin to feel like it’s difficult to browse your
Exploring Hip-Hop’s Golden Age: The Birth of Boom Bap If you are too young to remember 9/11, it might be hard to comprehend how controversial
Also known as Tropicalismo, Tropicália was an art and music movement in Brazil that created some of the country’s most important and creative works in the short span of a few years (~1967-1969).
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