albums by fellow tropicalistas Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso, as well as television commercials and jingles for the Shell Corporation. Os Mutantes self-titled debut LP came out in 1968 and led with the Gil/Veloso composition "Panis Et Circenses" with arrangements by Duprat. The song, which had also appeared on the Tropicália compilation, critiqued the bourgeoisie living complacently under Brazil's oppressive military rule. The band covered "Once Was A Time I Thought" (translated and renamed “Tempo No Tempo”) by California pop act The Mamas and the Papas, and rendered a version of “Le Premier Bonheur Du Jour” by French yé-yé singer Françoise Hardy, which singer Rita Lee embellished with the sound of an aerosol can shooting out bursts of FLIT bug spray. Cover versions of Jorge Ben's "A Minha Menina", Gal Costa's "Baby," and the Sivuca/Miriam Makeba international baião-inspired hit "Adeus Maria Fulô" also appeared on the record in new psychedelicized arrangements. Reception In retrospective reviews following the album's re-release more than three decades after its recording, AllMusic called the album "a wildly inventive trip that assimilates orchestral pop, whimsical psychedelia, musique concrète, found-sound environments, [as well as] fuzztone guitars and go-go basslines," concluding that "it's far more experimental than any of the albums produced by the era's first-rate psychedelic bands of Britain or America." Crawdaddy'' stated that non-Portuguese speakers "might have no idea what the psychedelic popsters are singing about, but the wild inventiveness and playful hooks of their debut speak loudly enough. The record was deeply influenced by the music coming out of the US and the UK at the time, but [...] Os Mutantes were breaking new ground." Author John Bush labeled the album "crazed psychedelic pop" and a "raucous, entertaining mess of a record featuring long passages of environmental sounds, tape music, and tortured guitar lines no self-respecting engineer would've allowed in the mix." Track listing Personnel Rogério Duprat: arrangement Os Mutantes Rita Lee - vocals (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11), recorder, autoharp, percussion Sérgio Dias - vocals (1, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11), guitars Arnaldo Baptista - vocals (1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11), keyboards, bass Special guests Dirceu: drums Jorge Ben: vocals and acoustic guitar (in "A Minha Menina") Dr. César Baptista: vocals (in "Ave, Gengis Khan") Clarisse Leite: piano in "Senhor F" Cláudio Baptista: electronics Gilberto Gil: percussion (in "Bat Macumba") References External links Os Mutantes (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net