Gilberto Gil (Nęga) [Import]

Gilberto Gil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 20, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Water
• ASIN: B000P7V41M
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #217,423 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #64 in Music > World Music > Latin Music > Brazilian > Tropicália

Track Listings

1. Nęga (Photograph Blues)

2. Can't Find My Way Home

3. The Three Mushrooms

4. Babylon

5. Volks, Volkswagen Blues

6. Mamma

7. One O'Clock Last Morning, 20th April 1970

8. Crazy Pop Rock

9. Can't Find My Way Home [Live][*]

10. Up from the Skies [*]

11. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [*]

Editorial Reviews

Released in 1971 while Gil was living in London, this is the 3rd self-titled release frm the bosssa nova and tropicalia legend. Gil recorded this album while in political exile from his native Brazil and its somber, straightforward tone is a welcome change frm the experimental, psychedelic assault of his 1969 long player. Featuring 7 originals and a brilliant cover of Steve Winwood's ''Can't Find My Way Home'', this Water release also contains 3 bonus tracks including covers of Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles. A tropicalia classic. 2007.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Brazilian "tropicalia" classic, April 14, 2007

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This review is from: Gilberto Gil 1971 (Audio CD)

Songwriter-guitarist Gilberto Gil was, along with his collaborator Caetano Veloso, a founding member of the hippie-ish "tropicalia" movement, which merged Brazilian art forms with the psychedelic and "new wave" movements from Europe and the USA.

Gil's career took off at roughly the same time that Brazilian politics devolved into a military coup, and accordingly the great cultural radical ran afoul of the new dictatorship. In 1969 Veloso and Gil were arrested, then sent into European exile, where they remained for several years. This album was recorded in London, during that exile, and features Gil at his most searching and haunted. The album includes groovy acoustic versions of several songs that appear (in electrified, rock-funk form) on other albums, as well as some truly goofy, delerious English-language psych-folk tunes, including "Three Mushrooms," which has a Tim Buckley-ish spaciness to it. This expanded version includes three bonus tracks, most notably a cover of Steve Winwood's "Can't Find My Way Home," which takes on renewed poignance, given what Gil was going through at the time.

By the way, Gil certainly got his revenge: he and Veloso returned to Brazil in 1972 and became, despite the ongoing censorship and political paranoia, huge pop stars, and are considered two of the most influential musicians in modern Brazilian pop. Not only that, but Gil even went into politics himself, getting elected to office locally in Bahia, and is currently (in 2007) serving as the country's Minister of Culture. How's that for a happy ending? So, here he is in his youth, banished but not bowed, soaking up the psychedelic wackiness of Swinging London, and sending it back home for everyone to hear... And now you can, too!