Domingo [IMPORT]

Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1967
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B000004795
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #179,413 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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About the Artist
Dona Mariah's only daughter, Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, was born in Salvador, Bahia and was brought up listening to music - on the radio always turned on in the house, in the record store where she worked as a teenager, at the Tenis Baiano Club - with friends, until she got in touch with the group of rising stars, such as Caetano Veloso who in the early '60s was already pioneering towards the new Brazilian Popular music. Later came the courage to come down to Rio and São Paulo. The first show in São Paulo, "Arena Canta Bahia", wasn't exactly a hit but who ever saw it, will never forget it: Gal still called herself "Gracinha", was quiet and thoughtful, listening most of the time and being only listened when she sang Bossa Nova standards. When everything became psychedelic and marvellous with Gilberto Gil's, Tom Ze's, Torquato Neto's antropophagic Tropicalismo, Maria de Graça turned into Gal (from the nickname "Gau", given by a younger cousin), Brazil was going through a dictatorship totally against new ideologies and concepts, and while Gil and Caetano chose to become political exiles in London, Gal took part in politically radical concerts, thighs and hair swaying to the sound of Jorge Benjor, Adoniram Barbosa, Luis Melodia, Roberto and Erasmo Carlos. Even then Gal already had the ability to turn any song immersed in prejudice, such as the wishy-washy romantic songs on the hit parades and the almost forgotten sambas by old composers, into dark jewels of unbelievable value for the cultural Brazilian soul. She started using words more and more, preferably to sing, to express herself through other composers' lyrics, she never wrote a song. The habits were changing and Gal was showing the change. She went through several periods: the belly button, and the barefoot periods, changing and trying to find the right temperature of a country made of miracles, highways, sugar cane, soccer World Cup, feathers and high-rises. Gal gave her name to the dunes of a beach in Rio. She was known to all who had long hair and colorful necklaces. She started to guide the camping groups of the first and last Brazilian hippies, natural rice and bananas - and set up a trademark, an enormous mouth with bloodred lipstick, bleeding over the Carnivals, bathed by the merry sounds of its music, the sun and an ever rising success. The campus stages and those of alternate show places suddenly became too small. It was time to cross the borders. And in the early '80s, several countries received her setting up an international bridge, with concerts in Japan, France, Israel, Argentina, USA, Portugal, Italy... "O Sorriso do Gato de Alice is the twentieth album of a career that confirming João Gilberto's omen, turned into one of the most successful in the international music world. Actually, as was previously said, Gal Costa's voice is our best exportation choice.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Bossa Nova Duo, January 11, 2000

By	John Koen "cellist" (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Gal and Caetano are a great duo. I am not as knowledgable as one of the other reviewers, but there is obviously a great chemistry between the two. This is a relaxing disc-- even the fast songs are gently tropical. I'm a big fan of Caetano Veloso's songs, and they comprise two-thirds of the disc. Gal Costa has the right sound for these songs, too. Her voice seems to float on top of the music. The liquid purity of their voices matches beautifully, as well as the easy flexibility of their rhythm. They each sing some on their own, and a couple together, notably Coração vagabundo. Others songs than particularly stand out for me are Domingo, Nenhuma dor, Remelexo, Minha senhora , Quem me dera and Maria Joana. Text of the songs only in Portuguese, but the English notes translate three of them.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review of "Domigo", July 16, 2002

By	"cued" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

It is my understanding that this is Caetano's first studio LP. He was a very young man on this record and had not developed the musicofagia of the Tropicalia movement yet. He was just a small town Bahian kid with an acoustic guitar and a strong desire to be a Bossa Nova star. There is a charming naivete in the way he plays and sings, a naivete long-vanished form the recordings of the big name Bossa Nova stars of Rio de Janeiro, with their slick studio productions and their guest appearances with North American jazz greats. There is no pretension here, only honesty and humility. Coracao Vagabundo, of course is a super hit still being performed by Caetano today; but I also particularly like "Onde nasci passa um rio", "Remelexo" and "Quem me dera". But in the end, this is a quaint old provincial bossa nova record; we would have to wait until the 1969 "caetano Veloso" white album or the "Tropicalia" record (with Os Mutantes and Gil) to see just what genius Caetano was capable of once he abandoned the bossa nova model of songwriting (or more correctly, buried it under layers of 1960s international pop experimentalism)... PS Gal sings here quite prettily here. I am reminded what a wonderful singer she was when she was young, before the shrillness set in; but this record is all Caetano's and Gal's presence here seems almost an afterthought.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first Caetano Veloso, the first Gal Costa: Great!, May 18, 2003

By	Carlos from Rio "Carlos from Rio" (Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil) - See all my reviews

Although his first album, this is a Bossa Nova album which marks a turning point in Caetano Veloso's mind before he engaged and leaded the Tropicália movement in Brazil. Composer Veloso and singer Gal Costa divide half of the 12 tracks each. Gal Costa is tender, totally different than her next output in the Tropicália era. A very beautiful album.