The Soil by Os Tropies
Recorded at Toronto's Union Sound Company with engineer Ian Gomes, The Soil's 14 tracks encompass a range of vibrant and unstoppable sounds and words, with the title symbolizing political issues ranging from women's bodies, colonized land and the matrix of plantation labor, to an environmental issue both dire and often ignored.
At first glance, this might seem like this has nothing to do with Brazilian music, but the opposite is true. The tropicália movement embraced a metaphor known as "cultural cannibalism." Simply put, it meant devouring disparate influences from within and without Brazil in the formation of Brazilian culture. Os Tropies explore this idea on The Soil, asking what it means to eat and to be eaten, as a metaphor and a reality that springs from the soil and reverberates through our contemporary social reality.
Tracklist
| 1. | Vir Me Amar | 3:44 |
| 2. | Undercovers Girl | 2:49 |
| 3. | Wicked Annabella | 5:47 |
| 4. | Thinking Stop Thinking | 3:15 |
| 5. | You Can Only Know | 1:08 |
| 6. | Attar Of Roses | 5:37 |
| 7. | Tropicanadense | 3:17 |
| 8. | Love Song | 5:05 |
| 9. | As Animais | 5:47 |
| 10. | Lua Escura | 4:48 |
| 11. | Isis Desvelada | 7:23 |
| 12. | The Soil | 5:22 |
| 13. | Seu Heka | 4:39 |
| 14. | The Haunted House Of The Americas | 2:02 |
Credits
Os Tropies is:
Amy Medvick - vocals
Carlie Howell - bass
David Atkinson - keyboards
Eric Woolston - percussion
Fraser McEvoy - drums
Graham Campbell - guitar
Produced by David Atkinson
Recorded and mixed by Ian Gomes at Union Sound Company
Add'l recording by David Atkinson at Aquifolia Studios
Add'l recording by Harley Butt at Acrylic Recording
Edited by David Atkinson
Add'l editing by Alex Gamble and Ian Gomes
Mastered by João Carvalho
Artwork and design by Fraser McEvoy
This recording was made possible with generous assistance by The Toronto Arts Council.
Special thanks to: Ian Gomes, Chris Leonard, Sarah Joy Bennett, Angelica Né aka Temporal, Alicia Reis, Amanda Paixão, Aline Morales, Bruno Capinan, Maninho Costa,
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Os Tropies grew out of the impossibility of travelling back in time. Influenced by the music of the revolutionary tropicália movement of late 1960s Brazil, these six Canadians versed themselves in psychedelic rock and Brazilian popular music, offering up covers of the tropicália numbers that inspire them and originals written in the spirit of irreverent and impassioned musical juxtaposition.