{"id":2554,"date":"2026-08-11T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arnaldodiasbaptista.com.br\/english\/musica-loki\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T18:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T21:05:02","slug":"musica-loki","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arnaldodiasbaptista.com.br\/english\/musica-loki\/","title":{"rendered":"[M\u00daSICA] Loki"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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L\u00d3KI? \u2013 ARNALDO BAPTISTA – (Philips, 1974)<\/b><\/p>

Musical Producer<\/i>: Arnaldo Baptista<\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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To celebrate Loki?’s 50th anniversary, we leave here a master writing by Jotab\u00ea Medeiros about this classic, eternally referenced album, Arnaldo’s first solo, released in 1974.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Written in 2017 for the vinyl album, relaunched by Polysom.<\/span><\/i><\/p>

By Jotab\u00ea Medeiros<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Translated by Rebecca Sharp<\/span><\/i><\/p>

Loki, the Asgardian god of cheating and madness, couldn\u2019t have predicted such insanity: in 1974, alone with his piano in his room in the Serra da Cantareira, a 26 year old boy, Arnaldo Dias Baptista, which all believed to be disoriented, nurtured the seed of the album which would forever change the face of Brazilian music.<\/span><\/p>

Loki?<\/span><\/i>, the album, was recorded in one single breath, with no repeated takes, at the Eldorado studio, in S\u00e3o Paulo, on 16 channels. The album has 10 tracks and lasts 33 minutes, it does not lend itself to one single guitar riff (a heresy for the times) and merges synthesizers with guitar, orchestral arrangements with clarinet and organ. Its musicality is visionary: there\u2019s sambalan\u00e7o, glam, British style pop balads, North American rockabilly, MPB, classical and progressive digressions. Invention is the album\u2019s only frontier, but this is not a nerd\u2019s Cartesian experimentalism \u2013 Arnaldo non- ceremoniously broke through the doors of perception.<\/span><\/p>

Loki?<\/span><\/i> houses an instrumental journey between Chopin and Elton John in the song \u201cHonky Tonky\u201d, and even a certain orientalism, that slides its way into the blues and arrives at traditional MPB on the 12 string guitar in \u201c\u00c9 f\u00e1cil\u201d. Arnaldo is a one man band unfolding himself in search of the right effect, as with the Moog synthesizer in \u201cDesculpe\u201d and \u201cTe Amo, Podes Crer\u201d. When he sings \u201cwhere is my rock n\u2019 roll\u201d, that is pure Jerry Lee Lewis, until he adds a \u201cI\u2019m going back to Cantareiraaaaaa\u201d which is pure MPB, anarchizing references on the way.<\/span><\/p>

The ex-Mutante had the lucidity (financially supported by Robert Menescal, artistic director of Phillips and Marco Mazzola who produced him) to seek the help he needed. The maestro Rog\u00e9rio Duprat, at the time an ex-tropicalista, abominated what rock had become then: an old guitar, bass and drums formula, a musical label, a limitation of the imagination. Due to this conjecture, he left everything and went to live in a homemade\u00a0 woodwork shed in Itapecirica da Serra. While carving out two of Aranldo\u2019s songs (\u201cOnly One Person\u201d and \u201cYou Thinkin\u2019 I\u2019m Crazy?\u201d), he had the feeling there was an entire world yet to unveil. He was our George Martin.<\/span><\/p>

This is a record to be heard on high volume, Arnaldo recommends. No recommendation was needed: the album was so important, it would resonate eternally, while it\u2019s time fell behind. Since January of that year there was an iron fisted new general, Ernesto Geisel, conducting the military dictatorship. This permanent shadow made it so that all the art of that time had a combative, engaged feel to it. Lyrically, Arnaldo chose his own existential anguish as the universe which needed to be understood, and left as his legacy the Bible of an alternative utopia. \u201cWe all stay together. Reunited as one person only\u201d, he sang in \u201cYou Thinkin\u2019 I\u2019m Crazy?\u201d<\/span><\/p>

Arnaldo\u2019s record came to Earth with an individual esthetic vision, which led him to be compared to Pink Floyd\u2019s Syd Barret. There was no equivalent amongst his contemporaries, as there still isn\u2019t. His original fuel was an amorous delusion, as in 90% of pop, but the result was universal illumination.<\/span><\/p>

In the rest of the world, the promise of a brilliant technological future was hinted at. In that year, Kraftwerk released the classic \u201cAutobahn\u201d. The synthesizer family then received the revolutionary Moog Satellite, which would be very much used by Vangelis on the soundtracks of new movies.<\/span><\/p>

Arnaldo Baptista transcended his dimension, he lived in a spaceship. He had gone to peaks of pop glory with The Mutantes, but as soon as he left the band, he kept his vision way beyond. On the cover photo, with his brown leather pants and no shirt, looking like he\u2019s waiting for someone or something, he seems to be saying he has no voracity for the future nor reverence for the past. He created his reality alone, attached to his dreams and visions, and that is what prevails in <\/span>Loki?<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>

Sean Lennon\u2019s and Kurt Cobain\u2019s confessions on the influence that Arnaldo Baptista and The Mutantes\u2019 music had on their work are famous, but the span of influence is wider still, moving through the likes of Devendra Banhart and Kevin Parker from Tame Impala. In Brazil, this influence stretches through generations, noticeable in songs by Boogarins and O Terno.<\/span><\/p>

It is because of this that the Vinyl edition of the album, by Polysom (Universal Music, 180 grams, original art, unpublished sleeve complete with lyrics) is so symbolic:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Transcendental album, registers the waves of influence of that moment of transition \u2013 Arnaldo did this surrounded by his old companions, as if he were doing an intersection. There are support vocals by Rita Lee in two songs\u00a0 — \u201cN\u00e3o Estou Nem A\u00ed\u201d (I Don\u2019t Even Care) and \u201cVou Me Afundar na Lingerie\u201d (I\u2019m gonna drown in Lingerie) \u2013 and the musicians are Liminha (bass; Sergio Kaffa plays bass only on \u201cDesculpe\u201d) and Dinho (drums).<\/span><\/p>

Don\u2019t shoot the pianist, is what the posters would read in old Wild West saloons. It was a hard act to follow. In his case, a piano was all he needed to make one of the most fundamental records of Brazilian music. <\/span><\/p>

1-<\/span>Ser\u00e1 Que Eu Vou Virar Bolor?<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>2-<\/span>Uma Pess\u00f4a S\u00f3<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>3-<\/span>N\u00e3o Estou Nem A\u00ed<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>4-<\/span>Vou Me Afundar Na Lingerie<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>5-<\/span>Honky Tonky<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>6-<\/span>C\u00ea T\u00e1 Pensando Que Eu Sou Loki?<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>7-<\/span>Desculpe<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>8-<\/span>Navegar de N\u00f4vo<\/span>
<\/span><\/a>9-<\/span>Te Amo Podes Crer<\/span>
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