Summer of international psychedelia
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World Cup fever has gotten me all revved up about '60s Brazilian music again. It helped that Brazil finally put on a spectacle today against Japan (why do I even know that? I am not usually a sports fan). Even these "Nike 'Joga Bonita' ads":http://nikefootball.nike.com/nikefootball/siteshell/index.jsp#,us,0;jogatv,,0,0,0,0 stoked the fires. The soundtrack to "10-year-old Ronaldinho":http://nikefootball.nike.com/nikefootball/index.jsp#,us;jogatv,10,0 sounds a lot like Pipoca Moderna by "Gilberto Gil":http://mog.com/music/Gilberto+Gil (not the same song... and probably actually a whole genre that I don't know the name of). I've had Umbabarauma by "Jorge Ben":http://mog.com/music/Jorge+Ben on repeat now and then, although I don't think Mog-o-matic has figured that out yet. The "lyrics":http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/p/pontadelancaafricanoumbabarauma.shtml crack me up every time (Joga bola, jogador... Play ball, footballer!).But. This has reminded me that I was going to try for a summer of international psychedelic rock. At first I thought that only Brazil had a crazy psychedelic movement, as far as non-English-speaking countries went. But lately I've discovered a deep well of Turkish music too. "Erkin Koray":http://mog.com/music/Erkin+Koray, "Apaslar":http://mog.com/music/Apaslar, "Mogollar":http://mog.com/music/Mogollar. And there is no shortage of psychedelic Bollywood. It's a lot of fun to hear psychedelia built on something other than blues foundations-- it makes American and British psychedelia sound like ethnic music too! It's the ethnic music based on blues instead of, say, samba.I'm trying to figure out how to hunt for other countries with 1960s psych gems, preferably complete with radical politics and jail terms. This is kind of a hard thing to search for-- not a lot of linking between different kinds of international psychedelia. So I'm going to try tagging up this blog post, to see if that helps in my quest.
Locating MOG account...
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