LIVE AT THE BARBICAN THEATRE 2006 - OS MUTANTES
Despite a 28-year live layoff, Brazil’s finest oddball psych-rock combo, Os Mutantes, is sharp beyond belief on this double-disc concert set. Recorded in London last year at the start of the group’s brief reunion tour and released via David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, “Live” has just the right balance of styles. There’s staccato, Tropicalia-style rhythms of “Dois Mil E Um” and “A Minha Menina”; the fuzzy guitar freakouts of “Top Top,” “Balada Do Louco” and “I Feel a Little Spaced Out”; and more straightforward, accessible pop numbers, such as the Beatles-esque “Tecnicolor” and “Virginia.”
