In the late '60s, where
Gilberto Gil
and
Os Mutantes
headed, many other groups followed. Thanks to the good folks at
World Psychedelic Funk Classics
, we have 16 more tracks to file right beside the best of
. Most of them are spot-on examples of the form, complete with wall-of-guitar fuzz, piercing lead guitar, reverbed vocals, psych organs, drum kits bashed beyond belief, and numerous references to pop culture or drugs (the opener is a cover of the
Batman
theme).
Lloyce e Os Gnomes
get in the best
Mutantes
impression, with a song from 1969 called
"Era uma Nota De,"
but there's much more quality material than that, including
Fabio
's funky
"LSD (Lindo Sonho Delirante),"
rough-hewn Brazilian soul with
Serguei
's
"Ourico,"
and the psychedelic female pop
"Cinturao de Fogo"
by
Marisa Rossi
. Some of the tracks here from the '70s feature a bluesier, funkier backing than
-- in similar company to their earlier volume,
Psych Funk 101 (1968-1975)
-- often sounding as much like
Rare Earth
as
Sly Stone
. And, although virtually all of the tracks come from a four-year window between 1968 and 1972, the compilers wisely chose an odd track from 1976 that turns out to be a mostly unrecognizable cover of
"God Save the Queen"
by a group named 14 Bis (likely not the same
14 Bis
that formed later in the '70s). ~ John Bush