Search - Jorge Mautner :: Para Iluminar a Cidade

Brazilian folk-psychedelia from 1973

Joe Sixpack -- Slipcue.com | ...in Middle America | 04/15/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A delightful relic of authentic Brazilian hippie folk-rock. Violinist-songwriter Mautner, a fast friend of tropicalia founders Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, performs live at the Teatro Opinao in Rio de Janeiro, with sparse acoustic accompaniment: his violin, bass, guitar and bongo drums. His style is loose, rambling and playful, and utterly appealing. Vocally, he sounds a bit like Caetano, but shorn of the seriousness and gravity that marks much of Veloso's work. It's a kooky, low-key album, a novel oddity that might have arisen as easily from the margins of the hippie-era San Francisco ... scene as from Brazilian climes. Anyone who's into marginal, different-sounding, uncommercial music, particularly the Tropicalia rock of Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, might wanna check this out."