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MUTANTES: Pop Aliens in the Land of SambaIt was the perfect band name.
In the late 60s, in a convoluted South American country called Brazil, people asked themselves if these three lunatics hadn’t really come from another planet. Besides the bizarre characters that Rita Lee and brothers Sérgio and Arnaldo Baptista would impersonate on TV programs, concerts and on their album covers, the Mutantes’ music sounded light-years ahead of any other pop band in Brazil.
From the very beginning, the Mutantes were strange and provocative. While recording the first album, Os Mutantes, in the early part of 1968, producer Manoel Barenbein became extremely curious when he saw Rita walk into the studio holding a can of bug spray (the popular “Flit” brand) and place it among the band’s instruments. Craziness? No, just simply brilliant: The idea was to substitute it for the hi-hat cymbals on the recording of “Le Premier Bonheur du Jour.” As unthinkable as it may seem, it worked very well. This was just the fi
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