Unplugged [Import, Live]

Gilberto Gil | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 16, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Wea
• ASIN: B00000G831
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #478,493 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Novidade

2. Tenho Sede

3. Refazenda

4. Realce

5. Esotérico

6. Drão

7. A Paz

8. Beira-Mar

9. Sampa

10. Parabolicamará

11. Tempo Rei

12. Expresso 2222

13. Aquele Abraço

14. Palco

15. Toda Menina Baiana

16. Sítio Do Pica-Pau Amarelo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intimate, transparent jam session, February 18, 2004

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J. King'oi "msafiri" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unplugged (Audio CD)

I have had this CD for years, and am surprised that nobody has reviewed it yet, so here goes.
My first Gilberto Gil music was a 'pirate' cassette tape I purchased in Kenya, which is long gone, but the frivolous melodies and improvised Brazilian scats haunt me to this day. He has that worldly, jazzy, playful style that at the same time appears to have a poetic profundity to a listener without a knowledge of what his lyrics are about.
The Unplugged CD has that same feeling: intimate and transparent, with melodic flings that span the wide space between Africa, the Samba and American popular song. Gil's rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Secret Life of Plants", rendered in an interesting accent, is testimony to the man's latitude and depth in taste. His own songs bristle with acoustic synergy, with room for expressive solos between the tight-loose guitar riffs.
I'd recommend this CD to anybody who has an interest in the Brazilian popular sound that was founded by Gil and others and labelled 'Tropicalismo'....a melding of socially conscious lyrics and musical virtuosity.

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely amazing, January 12, 2010

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Don Jr (Rochester, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unplugged (Audio CD)

If you've ever heard Gilberto Gil and you liked him, this is for you. I can't stop listening.