Have been listening to quite a lot of this stuff lately. An avant-gardist Brazillian thing from the sixties that fuses jazz, poetry, funk and rock, with a definite political edge. Key artists are Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Os Mutantes. Really wonderful stuff. I was just wondering if anyone else likes it and/or knows anything more about it.
edit: just found a really nice website dedicated to it:
http://www2.uol.com.br/tropicalia/
edit2: just looked through and depite having an English/Brazillian option 90% of it is in Portugese.