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4.0 out of 5 stars
Brazilian folk-psychedelia from 1973, April 15, 2003
This review is from: Para Iluminar a Cidade (Audio CD)
A delightful relic of authentic Brazilian hippie folk-rock. Violinist-songwriter Mautner, a fast friend of tropicalia founders Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, performs live at the Teatro Opinao in Rio de Janeiro, with sparse acoustic accompaniment: his violin, bass, guitar and bongo drums. His style is loose, rambling and playful, and utterly appealing. Vocally, he sounds a bit like Caetano, but shorn of the seriousness and gravity that marks much of Veloso's work. It's a kooky, low-key album, a novel oddity that might have arisen as easily from the margins of the hippie-era San Francisco ... scene as from Brazilian climes. Anyone who's into marginal, different-sounding, uncommercial music, particularly the Tropicalia rock of Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, might wanna check this out.
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