"Uma tarde na fruteira" is the fourth album by JUPITER APPLE, a Brazilian filmmaker, multi-instrumentalist and composer. A complete revision of the history of the best Brazilian music (not only soundwise, the desing is a tribute to the covers of exquisite Brazilian label Elenco) that takes us back, with its surrealistic, colourful imagery, to the most creative, explosive, exciting period in Brazilian music, the one going from the 50's to the…
"Uma tarde na fruteira" is the fourth album by JUPITER APPLE, a Brazilian filmmaker, multi-instrumentalist and composer. A complete revision of the history of the best Brazilian music (not only soundwise, the desing is a tribute to the covers of exquisite Brazilian label Elenco) that takes us back, with its surrealistic, colourful imagery, to the most creative, explosive, exciting period in Brazilian music, the one going from the 50's to the 70's, the evolution that takes us from bossanova to MPB through Tropicalism.
In his songs we find the same scents, the same colours and the same nostalgic yet optimistic exuberance that soaked the beloved recordings by OS MUTANTES, OS BRAÇOES, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Tom Zé, Gal Costa... There's soft pop songs that remind you of the early Roberto Carlos, intimate bossanova à la Luiz Bonfa or Baden Powell, hedonistic easy listening to be filed with Sergio Mendes or Walter Wanderley, psychedelic pop and expanding symphonies that make you think of the best tropicalism or THE BEACH BOYS' "Pet sounds" and "Smiley smile".
This is an album that could have been released in 1968, or in 1972. In 2007 it sounds as a delicious anacronism that, thanks to a special vision of a sound that was futuristic and original in its heyday, still sounds absolutely modern and different to anything else.
