’60s MPB Essentials

Música Popular Brazileira (MPB) exploded into multifaceted magnificence during the post-bossa '60s. The young, hip Tropicália movement scrambled Brazilian samba and bossa with rock and pop; the strange and beautiful results include Caetano Veloso's trippy "Tropicália" and Gal Costa's ironically sweet "Baby". Others, meanwhile, concentrated on music with a fresh Afro-Brazilian bent. Gilberto Gil festively combined capoeira, ice cream and politics in "Domingo No Parque", while Jorge Ben got busy blending samba and rock in tracks like the bubbly "Cadê Tereza".