I came upon this incredible clip of the great Gilberto Gil in 1972, 8 years after the military coup, while the dictatorship was certainly still censoring and suppressing dissenters. I guess this was around the time Caetano Veloso returned after living in exile in London. What a wonderful song. It gave me a brief moment of hope for what we have coming here. Then I remembered that during the last Trump term we just got more T Swift, style/genre mashups, riffs learned off of YouTube, etc. I guess that’s what happens when all culture disappears from the creative landscape. Maybe we’ll get some powerful music around 2033?