Listen Up! No. 27 - Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina

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An oldie, granted, but this one slips through the 'new music' net for being the showpeice track off the sublime Tropicalia: A Brasilian Revolution In Sound - a very worthy introduction to an under-appreciated genre - which is (re-packaged and re-)released on Monday. The more astute amongst you will note that the merging of words, in this case 'tropical' and 'psychedelia', was the preserve of musical genres, not celebrity couples, back in the late 60s. Brangelina always sounded more like a flavour of Gino Ginelli than an acid-rhumba fusion to me...