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Os Mutantes, live at Somerville Theatre on October 4. 2009

By JEROME ENO | October 6, 2009

Photo: Jerome Eno

Os Mutantes | Somerville Theatre | October 4, 2009

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Just serious enough
Over the years, I’ve seen many an act try and fail to get folks up out of their seats at the Somerville. On Sunday night, all Os Mutantes had to do was play the opening notes of Jorge Ben’s “A Minha Menina” and we all spilled into the aisles like a flash flood.
Tropicália storm
When Sérgio Dias takes to the Somerville Theatre stage this Sunday with the current incarnation of Os Mutantes, it's a safe bet he'll be beaming with gratitude. "I'm riding the same wave," he says of his band's legendary Brazilian albums, "but this time I have my eyes open."
Photos: St. Vincent at Somerville Theatre
Annie Clark and co. live on May 19, 2009
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Just serious enough
Over the years, I’ve seen many an act try and fail to get folks up out of their seats at the Somerville. On Sunday night, all Os Mutantes had to do was play the opening notes of Jorge Ben’s “A Minha Menina” and we all spilled into the aisles like a flash flood.
Tropicália storm
When Sérgio Dias takes to the Somerville Theatre stage this Sunday with the current incarnation of Os Mutantes, it's a safe bet he'll be beaming with gratitude. "I'm riding the same wave," he says of his band's legendary Brazilian albums, "but this time I have my eyes open."
Photos: St. Vincent at Somerville Theatre
Annie Clark and co. live on May 19, 2009
St. Vincent's Actor gets a run-through
There were not one but two clarinets on stage at the Somerville Theatre on Tuesday night, and that gives you some idea of how intricate Annie Clark's chamber-pop compositions can be.
Photos: Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre
Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Touré live at Somerville Theatre, June 18, 2009
Slideshow: The Slutcracker
A burlesque take on the Nutcracker
Griot act
Some albums are extraordinary because they capture their time. Others are great because they transcend it.
Brazil nuts
Last winter, word got out that the original members of the notorious and influential Brazilian psych-pop group Os Mutantes were preparing to perform together for the first time in more than 30 years.
Brazilliant
A quick foray into Brazilian rock
Mixed emotions
When at the end of the title track of her band's new My Maudlin Career (4AD) Camera Obscura vocalist/songwriter Tracyanne Campbell coos "I don't want to be sad again" over a bed of ethereally jaunty chamber pop, you'd be wise to take that with a grain of salt.
Teachers and students
Several of this fall's promising jazz performances are clustered around the week of October 18. That marks the 40th-anniversary celebration of the jazz-studies program at New England Conservatory, which, created by Gunther Schuller, established NEC as one of the international twin beacons of jazz education in Boston along with Berklee College of Music.
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