Beautiful album from Gal Costa, who's got one of the loveliest voices in Brazilian music, if not the whole world. The mood is mostly mellow and subdued compared to a lot of her other early records, with a couple of more rocking and/or somewhat funky jams. The arrangements are tasteful and never veer into cheesy territory like some of her later work does, plus she does versions of two tunes written by Caetano Veloso, which he recorded on his incredible Joia (Lua Lua Lua Lua and the title track from that record, Joia).
It's a shame that this disc seems to be out of print (at least outside Brazil), and it's gotten a few spins here at home lately so I thought I'd pass it along to anyone looking for a little Brazilian flavor.
Gal
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