Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis
Album
The 1968 group manifesto, and the best first stop because it introduces everyone at once: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, Tom Zé and Nara Leão, with Rogério Duprat's arrangements tying it together. Panis et Circenses, sung by Os Mutantes, is the track to start with: a lovely melody that ends with the sound of a family dinner party being slowed down and cut off.