A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado

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A divina comédia ou ando meio desligado

Studio album by Os Mutantes
Released	1970
Genre	Tropicalia, Psychedelic rock
Length	41:52
Label	Polydor (Brazil), Omplatten (USA)
Producer(s)	Arnaldo Saccomani (Album producer for Polydor), Jeff Gibson, Johan Kugelberg (Reissue producers for Omplatten)
All Music Guide [1]
Os Mutantes chronology
Mutantes (1969)	A Divina Comédia Ou Ando Meio Desligado (1970)	Jardim Elétrico (1971)

A divina comédia ou ando meio desligado is the third album by the Brazilian tropicalia/Psychedelic Rock band Os Mutantes. The album was originally released in 1970 (see 1970 in music) and reissued in 1999 on Omplatten Records. The title in English means: The Divine Comedy or I Walk Disconnected. "I walk disconnected" in this sense means "I feel a little spaced out." The second track features the band humorously imitating Californian accents. The album as a whole is characterized by an interesting mix of psychedelic and religious imagery, and is considered by many to be some of the group's finest musical work. It's also the first album by the band to break away from the Tropicalia aesthetic, and move towards more of a pure rock sound. Except for a tongue-in-cheek version of the the ballad "Chão de Estrelas", the record shows no Brazilian music influences whatsoever. This shift in direction, actually a return to their roots, is probably due to the fact that the main Tropicalistas Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were sent to exile in England by the Brazilian military dictatorship.