Banda Tropicalista Do Duprat [Import]

Rogerio Duprat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 25, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: El Records
• ASIN: B0009V6FE0
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,216 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #57 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazilian > Tropicália

Track Listings

1. Judy in Disguise

2. Honey/Summer Rain

3. Canção Para Inglês Ver/Chiquita Bacana

4. Flying

5. The Rain, the Park and Other Things

6. Canto Chorado/Bom Tempo/Lapinha

7. Chega de Saudade

8. Baby

9. Cinderella Rockefella

10. Ele Falava Nisso Todo Dia/Bat Macumba/Frevo Rasgado

11. Lady Madonna

12. Quem Será?

Editorial Reviews

First CD issue of 1968 album by the producer and arranger behind Brazil's legendary Os Mutantes, who together with Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa were one of the bands to revolutionize Brazilian music and create Tropicalia - a genre in its own right. Drawing from the Beatles ('Flying', 'Lady Madonna') and other popular hits of yore ('Honey', 'Judy In Disguise') as well as his own compositions, Duprat seamlessly blends pop, easy listening and smooth bossa with spectacular orchestral arrangements and far-out freakouts of the decidedly acid variety, creating one of the most individual sounds of the late Sixties. Mutantes themselves appear on four tracks. El. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars for music, 1 star for horrible transfer, October 17, 2005

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Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Banda Tropicalista Do Duprat (Audio CD)

The music on this album is fantastic. All of Tropicalia had a touch of kitsch, but it's running over the edge here. Lots of fun. This is a Tropicalia dinner party album, with orch versions and medleys of the best hits. The covers by Mutantes are the weakest moments, unfortunately.

This CD sounds like someone dubbed a dirty record onto cassette and printed off some CDs for friends. It doesn't even sound mastered. Staff at El, you should be ashamed to do such a crummy job with the sound and a disservice to great music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yes Yes Yes - but it must be the Brazilian version, March 25, 2008

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Robert Keith "Baskervilles" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Banda Tropicalista Do Duprat (Audio CD)

There are 2 VERY different CD versions of this album. You MUST purchase the Brazilian import of this album (which is this one). The UK version was mastered from vinyl and sounds terrible. REALLY terrible.

So what is this album like? Tropicalia loungecore. It's probably the lightest of all of the Tropicalia albums, but it is lots of fun. If you dig Duprat's crazy production on the Mutantes and Gilberto Gil albums, you will probably like this album. The Mutantes supply vocals for a few of the tunes. Unfortunately, these aren't the strongest tunes on the CD. My favorite tracks are the instrumentals. It's Tropicalia for dinner parties.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Some serious "caveat emptor" business., October 11, 2005

By 

Spencer Owen "champ extraordinare" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Banda Tropicalista Do Duprat (Audio CD)

If you listen to this Rogerio Duprat reissue and enjoy it, either you're even more of a fan of harsh noise music than I am (and I'm a bit more than casually into it myself), or you otherwise have managed to get past what I consider to be a fine display of a label's untenable lack of integrity. Appears to have been played off of a beat up record with a dirty needle. The most charitable read suggests that this was the best or only possible source material available; if it MUST be released in this condition, put a warning sticker on the front. Nearly every mid-range sound is unpleasantly distorted at any reasonable listening volume, and there are not many other types of sounds to speak of. If I'd heard this before buying it, I wouldn't have.