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Mutantes E Seus Cometas No Pai

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By the early 1970's, the pure experimentalism of the first few lps was more or less gone, but this did not mean that Os Mutantes were selling out or had gone limp. Far from it! This lp, from 1972, finds the band in as superb a form as they had ever been in, and their music reflects this wonderfully.

The songs range from the cosmic-Santana laden "Cantor de Mambo" to the wonderfully funky "Dune Buggy" to the almost prophetically eerie "Balada do Louco" (ballad of the crazy...considering what would be the, shall we say, eccentrically unusual, future for founder Arnaldo Baptista, the song sends shivers up my spine every time I hear it). From rock-n-roll to their rich ballads, Os Mutantes do not skip a beat on this gem. While I do not recommend this lp as a starting point, (listen to their lps chronologically to best observe their amazing growth as artists), I DO highly recommend the lp as a place to stop, sit down, and enjoy this cult favorite band at the height of their powers. A masterful lp.

Just think for a moment... why did you come to see the review of this album? To listen... Well, then fasten your seatbelts to a trip through the most powerful Mutantes' work. From pure rock n' roll (Posso Perder Minha Mulher...) to a psychedelic funk (Dune Buggy), spiced with progressive rock (Mutantes e Seus Cometas), a little bit of a comic Santana (Cantor De Mambo) and an anthem for all of us lunatics (Balada Do Louco) this cosmic album shows us what the Mutantes are capable to do with their musical instruments... You'll see why it's impossible to turn your stereo off.

Although some people don't consider this album as the last one of the band (Mutantes had released another album in the end of the same year formally as a Rita Lee's solo album), this was the highest point of the band. Mixturing lots of styles (one of the main characteristics from the band), they have written one of the most glorious pages from the rock history of all times. From songs as "Balada do Louco" (ironically, today it sounds as a Requiem for the brilliant leader Arnaldo Baptista) to the ravishing "Beijo Exagerado", from the psychedelic "Dune Buggy" to the beautiful CSN&Y vocals style of "Rua Augusta", from the Latin rythmics of "Cantor de Mambo" to the censored hard rock "A Hora e a Vez do Cabelo Nascer" (by the 70's Brazilian Military Dictatorship), this album is their main masterpiece.

It was the fifth album from the group, and the best one, to me. It includes a wide sort of styles, as the band used to do: the melodious "Balada do Louco" and "Vida de Cachorro", the hard rocks "Beijo Exagerado" and "A Hora e a Vez do Cabelo Nascer", the acid rock "Dune Buggy", the latin styled "Cantor de Mambo" and the progressive "Mutantes e seus Cometas no Pais do Baurets". Arnaldo Baptista and Rita Lee Jones - the main lyricists - had to fight against the Brazilian military censorship censors to release this album, in the begining of 1972. Thinking about the adverse conditions they had to deal, the results are really unbelievable: it's trully a rare jewel from the psychedelia age. As a complement, one information about their chord instruments (guitars, bass, besides other items as amplifiers and electronic effect gadgets): all of them criated and manufactured by Arnaldo Baptista and Sergio Dias older brother, Claudio Cesar, "known" for this as the sixth Mutante. Aren't you impressed? Pay attention on "Beijo Exagerado" chorus - better hear it aloud - then, just tell me your impressions.

The mutantes first 3 albums are the bomb. They are like the best thing that came to my ears in a while. So I had to get their others. This has a couple of good songs, but nothing like the first 3...man oh man...those first 3 are soooo good. This makes me kind of sad that good things never can last.

Mutantes is one of the best rock'n'roll bands around the world. This album shows all the band capabilites in tracks just like the wonderful one from the title, "Pais dos baurets" a rock'n'jazz LSD music...