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Tropicalia (song)
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Wikipedia article
"'Tropicalia'" is a song from Beck's 1998 album 'Mutations'. It was released as a single in the UK in December 1998. The B-side "Halo of Gold" is a drastically reworked cover version of "Furry Heroine (Halo of Gold)" by Skip Spence.
Beck said that "Tropicalia"'s inspiration was "I've always loved a lot of different exotic music. I've been listening to Brazilian music since I was a kid, but I haven't really felt it was something that would come naturally until the last few years. I think for something like 'Tropicalia' I needed to go to places where that music existed in order to get to the point where I could do it myself. I wrote it in the back of the bus on tour, and then later I put lyrics to it. A lot of times I write the melody and the chords of the songs sometimes years before I ever get around it writing lyrics, so it just sits there incubating."
Beck does not play any instrument in the song.
Track listings
CD
# "Tropicalia" 3:23# "Halo of Gold" 4:29
# "Black Balloon" 3:30
7"
# "Tropicalia" 3:23# "Halo of Gold" 4:29
Personnel
*Beck Hansen vocals
*Roger Joseph Manning Jr. synthesizer, organ, percussion
*Justin Meldal-Johnsen acoustic bass, percussion
*Joey Waronker drums, percussion, drum machine
*Smokey Hormel percussion, cuca, acoustic guitar
*David Ralicke flute, trombone
References
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