Os Mutantes

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Os Mutantes - Brazil’s legendary psychedelic band, founding members of 1960’s Tropicália movement and godfathers of indie music, have today announced that they will be bringing their highly influential, genre bending collage of sounds to Australia for the very first time in March 2011.


Lead by Sergio Dias (original member & front man since 1966), avant-garde pioneers Os Mutantes, will take you on a musical journey performing their rich catalogue of legendary tracks. Starting in the late 60’s - when they revolutionised the Brazilian music scene, to the mind tripping 70’s which eventually saw the group disband, to their first album in 35 years - 2009’s acclaimed ‘Hait or Amortecedor’.

Bursting onto the Brazilian music scene some 35 years ago as Sao Paolo teenagers, the three young Mutantes rocked the foundations traditional Brazilian music was built on with their (then) radical use of electric instruments and ingenious creation and experimentation with avant-garde sounds (including using a can of fly spray to replace the sound of a hi-hat cymbal on track ‘Le Premiere Bonheur du Jour’ of their self titled debut, or achieving distorted vocals on track ‘Desculpe, Babe’ off their third album ‘A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado’ by attaching a rubber hose to a hot chocolate tin with a tiny microphone inside). Their anti-establishment mentality and left of centre creativity saw Os Mutantes become one of the most revolutionary bands to emerge from the psychedelic scene.

These radical teens (the original line-up consisting of Sergio Dias, his brother Arnaldo Baptista and his girlfriend Rita Lee) were heavily influenced by the counterculture movement and its new sound, specifically that of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones. Creating their distinct kind of psychedelia, from the cultural and musical cannibalism of all cultures (known as ‘antropofagia’ – the driving cultural concept of Tropicália), Os Mutantes combined traditional Brazilian music with the sounds of Europe and North America.