Mojo reckons Os Mutantes are reuniting for the Tropicalia Festival at the Barbican, February 2006

and the source wasnt Mojo.

http://www.fly.co.uk/fly/archives/2006/01/tropicalia_a_revolution_in_brazilian_culture_barbican_london_february_may_06.html

Tropicália: Music Festival
21st April – 23rd May, Barbican Hall, Barbican Freestage, Barbican Clubstage
While the musical element of Tropicália launches in March with AfroReggae, the Barbican builds up to a finale with a major music festival that celebrates the impact made by the album
‘Tropicália’ – an album that sounds as fresh today as it did in 1967.

"With 5-6 headline concerts in the Barbican Hall, free pre and post show performances on the Freestage and Clubstage, audiences will get a once in a lifetime opportunity to see some of the major musical legends of the Tropicália movement, together with an international line-up of guest artists. Please note that artists are still to be confirmed. In conjunction with the music season, the exhibition in the Barbican Art Gallery will also show new works by musicians such as Moreno Veloso and Arto Lindsay."

http://www.wunderkammern27.com/2005/12/os_mutantes_reunion.html
os mutantes reunion!?!
"The website for David Byrne's always-hep Luaka Bop Records reports that Brazilian psychedelic legends Os Mutantes are considering a reunion:

We are working on an expanded Os Mutantes record. The band members have been discussing possibly getting back together for a few shows in 2006, hence we are also talking to people who might be excited as all hell to put on an Os Mutantes show. Are you one of those people? Would you mind if we use your basement/rec room for a show or two? When's the last time you entertained 1,500 people down there? Yeah. You're gonna have to move the coffee table.
Hot diggity! This is one of the few reunion shows I'd flip over. I'll post an mp3 sometime."

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=4152

No Rita Lee though by the looks of things.

by John Bush
In 1970, Os Mutantes re-recorded in English a full LP's worth of their best songs, apparently hoping to crack the American and European market. (Brazilian expats Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil would make the same move, for political reasons, one year later.) If ever, the late flowering of the psychedelic era was the perfect time for a Mutantes breakthrough, considering the trio's zany songwriting sense and even more anarchic production methods. And though the album never saw release until the next century — Western audiences proved far more understanding of Sergio Mendes' easy-pop version of Brazilian music forms anyway — Tecnicolor acquired a new lease on life when it was finally reissued in 2000. By no means did Mutantes commercialize their sound. The tape-music experimentation and freak-out guitar lines are, if anything, farther out than the first few Mutantes LPs. Though a few of the tracks — "Panis Et Circenses" especially — lose much of their cache with the addition of English lyrics, for the most part these versions equal or even better the originals. "

Incidentally, I saw an "Os Mutantes" shirt on ebay and bought it on the spot. Sweeeet shirt, i must say.

Os Mutantes & Nacao Zumbi
+ special guest Devendra Banhart
22 May 2006 / 19:30
Barbican Hall

"This concert reunites original members of the psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes with Sergio and Arnaldo Baptista and drummer Dinho performing classic material live for the first time since 1973. They are joined by very special guests still to be announced.

The evening is opened by Pernambuco's Nacao Zumbi - one of the most thrilling bands to emerge from Brazil in the last decade. Disciples of late Chico Science, their powerful guitar and drum roots informed rock, espouses the very essence of the Tropicália ethos. "

But on a musical level, I don't think this could have been more of a parody of a old-timer reunion gig if it were a skit on Saturday Night Live. Yes, they concentrated heavily on their ropey late-period material. Yes, the drummer ended every phrase with a meat-handed 'dunka dunka dunka dunka' roll. Yes, they replaced Rita Lee with my substitute geography teacher from 1987. Yes, there were at least 6 full-size midi keyboards on stage, and yes there were two back-up singers in sparkly clothing who insisted on adding 'soulful' ululations to every sung line. If you had told me that this band had been working on Tropicalia themed cruise ship since the last Mutantes album, I would not have blinked.

I reckon it would have been a lot more musically interesting if they had got some younger, innovative musicians to be their backing band. Definetly not worth £20 - £30 per ticket, but I'm glad I saw it all the same.

yeah, that about sums it up. tho it was fun to see devendra gadding along to bat macumba...