Caetano's sound was birthed from a scene in Brazil that exploded in the 1960s called tropicalia. ❋ Voto Latino (2011)
Gal Costa came up in the fantastically weird milieu of Brazilian tropicalia, a 1960s-era musical movement that overhauled that country's traditional sounds with some of the strange digressions and loopy improvements common to the 1960s everywhere else. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)
At Comet Ping Pong, you'll hear songs that pay loving tribute to the psychedelic tropicalia music of Brazil in the '60s and '70s. ❋ Fritz Hahn (2011)
A mix of blues, jazz, folk and psychedelic rock, tropicalia was also a movement that combined literature, poetry, art, and political commentary. ❋ Voto Latino (2011)
She was a contemporary of characters like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, and some of her early records count among tropicalia's wildest, with chaotic cut-and-paste collage elements and a psychedelic sense of play. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)
Though What Will Be bears a touch of user-friendliness that often comes with a jump to the majors, Banhart continues to explore his love for psychedelia while adding layers of interest with subtle forays into doo-wop, jazz, and tropicalia. ❋ Mrs. Tansy Maude Peregrine (2010)
Another episode of Brazilian Rhythms goes down at Saint-Ex featuring samba, tropicalia, bossa, baile funk and more on original LPs. ❋ Fritz Hahn (2010)
Growing up in New Orleans, AM was influenced by everything from Turkish folk to Brazilian tropicalia and classic r'n'b. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Tonight, tropicalia superheroes Os Mutantes take the stage at 9: 30 Club, opening for weird-rock rambler Ariel Pink. ❋ Click Track (2010)
A list (and column in which I attempt to claim the spirit of tropicalia for the list): ❋ Unknown (2010)
Self-described as an amalgam of gospel, punk rock, American folk, tropicalia, prog rock, and musical theater. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The concept of World Music was developed in 1987 at a summit of record labels called to deal with the problem of marketing a vast array of misfit recordings, from Brazilian tropicalia to Irish traditional sessions, that had no section to call home on the shelves of record stores. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Now, where I may listen to afro-beat and tropicalia when I'm feeling saucy, I don't do this because I want people to think I'm cool... ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
In person he was self-deprecating and dismissive of himself and his abilities, but turning the subject onto the things he knew so much about - obscure or weird mainstream comics, eclectic music from tropicalia and jazz to no wave and Charles Wright and the 103rd Street Rhythm Band - and he was warm, open, a great teacher, a great communicator. ❋ Percyprune (2008)
I don't have the full track-listing, but there are bits of sound from Akira, French psychedelic pop-rock, some Brazilian tropicalia, "Ice Cream" by New Young Pony Club, a hot new jammie by Kaos, as well as some bits from new Pink Skull tracks. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Of all the pop estuaries that feed into and out of electronic music, from noise to classical minimalism to Muzak, few have the fortitude of tropicalia. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is interesting how tropicalia and xenophobia can both exist so healthily in the same world. ❋ Colin Berry (1998)
PrinceInExile 5 February 2011 5:35PM tropicalia 5 February 2011 5:35PM 1. Diaby 2. ❋ Paul Wilson (2011)
