TROPICALIA Ou PANIS et CIRCENCIS 1968 PHILIPS BRAZIL GIL Caetano MUTANTES Tom Ze


TROPICALIA OU PANIS ET CIRCENCIS 1968 PHILIPS R 765.040L BRAZIL Original! CAETANO VELOSO / GILBERTO GIL / MUTANTES / GAL COSTA / TOM ZE
Vinyl has seen some plays and looks VG+ with some scuffs, spindle marks and a scratch on A6 you can barely hear, actually plays EX- with any minor flaws fading easily into the background. STRONG MONO SOUND! Cover is stunning NM-
The 1968 album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis is regarded as the musical manifesto of the Tropicália movement. Although it was a collaborative project, the main creative forces behind the album were Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. The album experimented with unusual time signatures and unorthodox song structures, and also mixed tradition with innovation. Politically, the album expressed criticism of the coup d'état of 1964. In 1969, Veloso and Gil were arrested and imprisoned by the military government over the political content of their work. After two months, the two were released and subsequently forced to seek exile in London, where they lived and resumed their musical careers until they were able to return to Brazil in 1972. Others in the Tropicalismo movement were less fortunate; several underwent torture or were forced into "psychiatric care". One tropicalista, the lyricist and poet Torquato Neto, committed suicide after such treatment.

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