The Fantasy Orchestra are packing their psychedelic bags and heading to the Brazil of the late 60s/ early 70s to steep themselves in Tropicália!

*** come and party!***
Arising in the late 1960s, the idea of the Tropicália (or Tropicalismo) artistic movement was to fuse traditional Brazilian music and rhythms with Western rock, pop and psychedelia and the results still sounds fresh and exciting today.
The chief protagonists were a group of musicians from Bahia and São Paulo, notably Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Tom Zé, Os Mutantes and the great arranger Rogério Duprat, among others. They went on to produce the 1968 album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis, which served as the movement's manifesto.

The Fantasy Orchestra are a +50piece orchestra and choir which formed in 2012 with a set of Ennio Morricone covers. Since then they've done sets of many other artists and genres including Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Radiohead, and Electronica, and now they are excited to attempt an interpretation of the Tropicalia songbook as part of their mission to bring about World Peace One Note at a Time.
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Morricone)
-youtu.be/XcWBAWhmeiQ?si=K0ptP7j62rO21Gko


Moonage Daydream (Bowie)
-youtu.be/o-vBGS4sA7s?si=h-2eTX5x7X6y6vhv

Burn The Witch (Radiohead)
-youtu.be/dYMWp9yGM1E?si=w60ou6AzfycG5BLK
Cover Photo by; Carol J Moir | @caroljmoir

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