If you had asked about their 5th album, "Jardim dos Baurets", I would say it's not very good, but in "Jardim Elétrico" they still "got it". It's hard for me to say whether you should buy it or not, but it's not "bad". she went to meet love.Click to expand."Jardim Elétrico" is a different vibe from the previous albums, a bit more on the "psychedelic" side, but still good. "The archangels lower their eyes and God bows to let her go by. "The angels sing," Dias shared in a statement. Even the current president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared three days of mourning and called Lee "one of the greatest and most brilliant names in Brazilian music." I love you."īaptista credits Lee for the " circus feel" of Os Mutantes, including its humor, costumes and instruments played, like the theremin. "Comadre Rita, Anibal, cabrinha, caprichosa capricorniana, amiga," tweeted Gil. Yet still, there's adventure and deceptive easy-going feeling in those albums - political dissent, sexual exploration and religion remained top of mind.Īs fans lined up at the Planetarium at Ibirapuera Park for a public wake, tributes have poured in. (She was also briefly married to fellow Os Mutantes member Baptista during this time.) You can hear that as early as 1970's Build Up, which was backed by Os Mutantes, but over the decades, her music became more conventional, especially her pop collaborations with Roberto Carvalho, whom she later married. Lee left Os Mutantes in 1972 "in search of Brazil, Brazil, Brazil," to assert her roots. "We always knew what each other was up to even without talking." "We were a magical potion," Dias told Psychedelic Baby Magazine. "Panis Et Circenses," which appeared on the 1968 compilation and artistic manifesto Tropicália, was written by Gil and Caetano Veloso, but Os Mutantes gives the satirical song - led by Lee's soft-but-commanding voice - a psychedelic gravitas. With its lyrical repetition and variation, "Bat Macumba," for example, feels like it could be a novelty song for go-go dancers, but its scorched guitar fizz warps listeners into another dimension. Every song is somehow cool and collected, yet also on the brink of falling apart. That naive, yet exploratory alchemy was baked into five brilliant albums from 1968 to 1972, not to mention Os Mutantes' studio work for Gilberto Gil on his second, self-titled album.
Everything we did was spontaneous and natural in a way that is simply not possible today, and I think that people have come to value that and respond to it passionately.'' ''We were so innocent back then that we weren't even fully aware of what we were doing, and that gave our music a tremendous honesty. ''The bottom line is that we were light-years ahead of everyone else,'' Lee told the New York Times in 2001. Inspired by The Beatles and the emerging Tropicália movement in São Paulo, Os Mutantes' psychedelic music included fuzzed-out freak outs underscored by carnivalesque orchestrations, found sounds and pan-Latin rhythms.
Still a teen, Lee formed Os Mutantes in 1966 with Arnaldo Baptista and Sérgio Dias. Music was an early part of her life, including piano lessons with Magda Tagliaferro. 31, 1947, in São Paulo to an American Brazilian father and Brazilian mother of Italian descent. In 2021, the artist was diagnosed with lung cancer and went into remission last year. "In this moment of deep sadness, the family is thankful for everyone's affection and love." Her cause of death was not disclosed.
"We communicate the passing of Rita Lee, in her home, in São Paulo, late last night, surrounded by all the love of her family, as she always wanted," shared Lee's official social media channels, translated from Portuguese. Rita Lee, the Brazilian singer, musician, composer and a founder of Os Mutantes, has died.
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