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Psicodelia Cooperativa é uma “banda-de-um-só”.  Esse era originalmente o nome de um grupo que costumava se reunir para degustar chás e fazer um som. 

Apesar da dissolução do grupo, a ideia de misturar influencias do rock progressivo com a estética MPB dos anos 60 foi mantida. Porém um artista não pode se alienar completamente de seu tempo, e assim como as letras miram em temas atuais (e ao mesmo tempo históricos como desigualdade social, transfobia, racismo e neoliberalismo), estéticas de musica eletrônica também se fazem presentes. As gravações foram feitas em um home-studio, limitando de certa forma a capacidade técnica, mas proporcionando uma liberdade criativa primorosa. 

Como exemplo; a natureza solitária do processo de composição e gravação impõe limitação de vozes. Eis que a criatividade propõe que a voz se torne apenas mais um instrumento em uma trilha “instrumental”.

Esses percalços técnicos garantem uma dimensão auto-analítica durante a composição do projeto. A voz, portanto, só aparece quando precisar aparecer para dizer o que precisa dizer, com letras curtas e diretas que buscam sintetizar problematizações, argumentações, debates e registros históricos. 

O que nos leva à segunda dimensão principal do projeto:  a crítica. A classe artística pacificou-se de tal forma durante os anos 2000 que qualquer ensaio de critica social pós-2013 pendulou entre a critica genérica, na maioria das vezes de viés liberal, ou o protofascismo. O povo se alienou da arte, mas a arte também se alienou do povo. A Psicodelia Cooperativa busca essa reconexão Todo poder ao povo Todos os povos por paz. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Psicodelia Cooperativa is a one-man-band. It was originally a group of friends that got together to appreciate herbs and jam. Thus the name (Cooperative Psychedelia) Although the group broke up the idea of mixing prog-rock with 60′s Bossa Nova aesthetics kept alive. But a artist can’t alienate itself from it’s time. So the lyrics aim for topical (but at the same time historical) issues such as social inequality, homofobia, racism and neoliberalism.  The recordings were made in a home-studio, establishing technical limitations but providing high levels of creative freedom. 

For example; the solitary nature of the composing and recording process imposes certain limitations on the voices. But then the creativity proposes that the voices becomes just another instrument on an "instrumental" track. These technical mishaps ensure a self-analytical dimension during project composition. The voices, therefore, only appear when it needs to appear. To say what they need to say. With short and direct lyrics that seek to synthesize problematizations, arguments, debates and historical records..

Which brings us to the second main dimension of the project: criticism. The Brazilian art class pacified itself in such a way during the 2000 that any post-2013 social critique essay hung between the generic criticism, most often of liberal bias, or protofascism.

People have alienated themselves from art, but art has also alienated itself from the people. Psicodelia Cooperativa seeks this reconnection

February 13th, it’s not exactly two months but so much has happened it feels like we need to recap some stuff. In the last 7 days, 10 kids from the young division of Flamengo football team and a beloved journalist, Ricardo Boechat, passed in horrific incidents. Also a storm knocked Rio a week ago, killing 7 people and leaving the city severely damaged. But that’s just to measure how badly our moral has been. While we have to deal with the aftermath of all this tragedies Bolsonaro swing his sword around even from his hospital bed. It’s important to remember that Bolsonaro rose to power as fascists always do: talking about corruption and public security. He also said some insane shit about homosexuals, black and indigenous people and surrounded himself with neoliberals from Chicago. But I’ll focus on the first two because it’s where the brazilian people is hooked on to.  Corruption is still a abstract concept for most brazilians. Many people believed it all stared with the Workers Party (PT). Needless to say it didn’t. But a lot of people voted for Bolsonaro because they were fed up with PT’s wrongdoing. So it was shocking (for them) when even before his inauguration Bolsonaro saw his elder son, (Flavio) involved up to his neck in a deep corruption scandal. What did he do? He was a state legislator here in Rio. He’d employed people on his cabinet and take part of their salary. It all broke out when his former driver ‘Fabrício Queiroz’ made 48 bank deposites in the same day in different places to Bolsonaro, his wife and sons. 

That was the tip of the iceberg. Queiroz turned out to be involved directly in the militia organizations that started as a parallel state that controlled some territories in Rio.Well, as we’ll se,  they’re not so parallel anymore.

 As the media looked deeper and deeper into the relations between the Bolsonaro famiglia and Queiroz, they found out Flavio Bolsonaro employed the mother and wife of a militia commander that was wanted for, among other things, involvement in the MARIELLE FRANCO ASSASSINATION A YEAR AGO. It’s early to say Jair Bolsonaro or someone from his family was involved in her assassination. But we can assure they worked with/for those militias. Flavio paid homage to many of these men as a state legislator. Now he’s a Senator.  Since the militias in Rio is probably the biggest problem to our public security, we come full circle here. The governor of Rio (a nobody that was elected due to Flavio’s support) ramp up the rhetoric against drug dealers, He stated multiple times that the police it ought to kill as many ‘drug dealers’ and ‘trouble makers’ as possible. “Aim their little heads and fire up” is a popular statement he made. Just this week, as we woke up to the news of fire that killed those 10 kids, other 13 people were killed by the police in a favela. No chance for trial, they yield and still shot. It’s a fucking war crime, but to the police it was a casual Friday. Bolsonaro’s justice and security minister, and former federal Judge who jailed  president Lula, Sergio Moro introduced a pack of laws that effectively enables the polices around the country to shoot first and ask latter. Not a word about securing the borders blocking the entrance of weapons and drugs. If we think about it, a Ak-47 isn’t produced inside a favela, it comes through our borders. They don’t produce cocaine there either. Not a word about it. Also not a word about the militias. Congressman Marcelo Freixo has fought those militias back when he was state legislator. He received multiple death threats and has to walk around with bodyguards. Marielle Francos (Freixo’s pupil) fought those militias as city council. And she was assassinated back in march. The Bolsonaro famiglia paid homage to these men and now they’re all elected.