World Music Institute Presents Os Mutantes at Brooklyn Bowl

Os Mutantes photo by Adriana Moraes

Masters of Brazilian Music

Friday, June 28 – 8 PM

Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn

Standing show with very limited seating – 21+

Presented in cooperation with Brooklyn Bowl

WMI and Brooklyn Bowl in promotional partnership with Blue Note Jazz Festival NYC. proudly present Brazilian musical legends Os Mutantes, the massively influential psychedelic rock band linked with the tropicália movement of the late 1960s. The group, whose name translates as “The Mutants” combined influences from Anglo-American rock (The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Sly & the Family Stone) with bossa nova, tropicália, samba, and the cultural legacy of the Brazilian art vanguards from the modernist movement. They released their first album in 1968 which was later included in Rolling Stone Magazine’s Greatest Latin Rock Bands of All Time and went on to record with fellow tropicália greats including Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. After a hiatus from the 1970s to the early 2000s, the band reunited (with band member changes) to tour and record new material.

One of the most well-known and influential rock bands in Brazil, Os Mutantes have been a major influence on many contemporary underground and independent bands in the US and Europe, including Beck, who paid tribute to the group with his single “Tropicália” from the album Mutations, as well as Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player Flea, and Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain. Talking Heads front man David Byrne has worked to publish and promote the group’s music through his Luaka Bop label. Billboard Magazine describes their sound as “kaleidoscopic, politically charged rock” and The Guardian says, “There was nothing quite like Os Mutantes, and there still isn’t.”

The MASTERS series bring legendary artists from across the globe, presenting the most acclaimed artists from their respective countries and continents.

About Brooklyn Bowl:

Brooklyn Bowl is the ultimate night out, with its groundbreaking integration of premiere music, 16 lanes of bowling, a bar featuring locally crafted beers, and food by the acclaimed Blue Ribbon restaurant group. Located in the beautiful, 19th-century Hecla Iron Works building, the venue — aka “rock and roll heaven” (Village Voice) — boasts a sound system and amenities that “no other local rock club can offer” (The New York Times).

Wearing its homegrown values on its sleeve, Brooklyn Bowl is as committed to locally made products — serving award-winning beer from the adjacent Brooklyn Brewery — as it is to environmental sustainability — it’s the first L.E.E.D.-certified bowling alley in the world and serves paper straws. And the food? “Epic,” says Eater. In other words, Brooklyn Bowl’s unprecedented combination of top-flight music, bowling, beer and food is “like nailing a spare on a four-ten split” (The New Yorker).

About World Music Institute:

Founded in 1985 as a not-for-profit, World Music Institute (WMI) has served as one of the leading presenters of world music and dance within the United States. WMI is committed to presenting the best in traditional and contemporary music and dance from around the world with the goal of inspiring wonder for the world’s rich cultural traditions, promoting awareness and appreciation and encouraging cross-cultural dialog and exchange. WMI presents at venues throughout the city and depends on both public and private funding to accomplish its mission. 

The program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.