>How funky is Tropical 2
>by Caetano and Gilberto Gil? How about Tropical by Gal
>Costa? How funky is Maria Bethania, does she really
>samba or is it it MOR easy-listening stuff.
The only one I know is Tropicalia 2, but I found it rather disappointing --
the production is too modern for my taste. I think the early tropicalia
stuff is waaay better, like Caetano's 1967 album, the one with Alegria,
Alegria, Tropicalia, Superbacana, or Gal Costa's 1969 Gal Costa album, with
Que Pena, Lost In The Paradise and her version of Baby -- possibly, my
favorite Brazilian album ever, with her sweet voice over funky rhythms,
orchestral arrangements and noise. Also, all the albums by Caetano from the
seventies that I know are great -- for example, Cinema Trascendental, Joia,
Bicho. Smoother, less experimental than the tropicalia stuff -- sometimes,
almost fusion-like, but always very moving. And his last studio album,
Livro, is surprisingly great, whereas I would avoid most of the other
eighties and nineties stuff.
Marco
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