Os Mutantescontinues to influence bands around the world. Active in the 60s and 70s, they took Brazilian music and fused it with British rock and American psychedelia to create a distinctive, vibrant sound. Along with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Velosoand Tom Z, they helped define the Tropicália movement. While still in high school, Rita Leeteamed with brothers Arnaldo Baptistaand Srgio DiasBaptista to form the band. A trio of brash musical experimentalists, the group fiddled with self-made instruments, distortion, feedback, musique concrète, and studio tricks of all kinds to create a lighthearted, playful version of extreme Brazilian music.
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Once upon a time when perhaps the sun was fading behind the mountains.
The shadow of a strong man, with a gun in his hand, raised to protect
the poor people of the haciendas, they called him: