Music by Graveola (Mais Um Discos CD MAIS013)
At the height of Brazil’s tropicalista movement in the 1960s, visual artist Hélio Oiticica offered the metaphor of anthropophagy – or cannibalism – as a way of understanding the circulation of political, social and artistic motifs through time.
Graveola, a group of hugely literate musical pranksters from Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, resurrect the idea in an album of verve and swerve, whose title translates as ‘I need a liquidizer’. Somehow it sounds better than cannibal.
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