Various Brazil 70: After Tropicalia: New Directions in Brazilian Music in the 1970s

'Brazil 70: After Tropiclia' - Soul Jazz Records follow up to 'Tropicalia: A Revolution in Sound' - mixes Brazilian funk, rock, samba and soul in equal measures.

'Brazil 70' follows Brazilian music in the 1970s in the aftermath of Tropicalia and as the country's dictatorship entered its most oppressive phase. Musicians and artists from the Tropicalia period of the late-60s such as Gilberto Gil, Rita Lee (Os Mutantes lead-singer) and Gal Costa entered this new phase mixing US and UK rock and psychedelia influences with Brazilian folk and roots music alongside a wealth of like-minded new artists such as Novos Baianos, Raul Seixas, Nelson Angelo, Joyce and more.

With the constant threat of imprisonment, these artists nevertheless managed to produce radical music that, like Tropicalia before it, managed to deal with questions of identity, sexuality and society in a revolutionary manner.