I know this has recently been reissued on a remastered CD; mine is the 1990 epic one. I must confess to not really 'getting' this album the first few times I heard it. I'd heard that this was even better than Tide and Wave, but it kind of passed me by.
Anyway, today, I finally got it. As you could figure from my site, and the fact that I make a lot of compilations, I'm someone who normally picks on individual tracks and devours them repeatedly. You can't really do that with this album. It's subtle and beautiful, and unusually for me, I found myself really only appreciating the record when listening to the whole thing in one sitting. There are some memorable melodies, notably 'tereza my love' and 'children's games', but the album really builds beautifully, and the extended (almost 10-minute) vocal version of the Barroso classic 'Brazil' makes perfect sense within the context of the album. |
