Release Date: 1/08/2008
Recording Date: 1/2008
Tracks: 13
Length: 00:56:47 Hrs
Label: Warner Music Latina
Type: CD
- Genre/Styles
- Tropicalia, MPB, Brazilian Pop
Album Tracks (13)
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What the Critics Say
As the title of this compilation suggests, it's a collection of songs where Gilberto Gil shares the stage with other artists. Some of the tracks are well known, other more obscure. Gilberto Gil at his best is a brilliant song writer and singer and this fact is of course apparent on this album. However, most of the 14 tracks here were not written by Gilberto Gil and do not in any way represent the best or most interesting features of his enormous discography. The material on this CD is quite disparate and the only thing every song here really has in common, is that you can here Gil's voice on the recording. Gil's own work is already very eclectic as it is, spanning from bossa nova to tropicália, over reggae and 70's disco grooves, to singer songwriter styled folk music and traditional rhythms from the state of Bahia. But the tracks here in several cases are more representative of Gil's various "duette" partners' music than with Gil's own, which makes this compilation sound somewhat incoherent. Since the beginning of his long career, Gil has consistently recorded interesting, creative and highly exciting music, although many of his albums have been slightly uneven. The potential, in other words, to compile "best of" CDs with Gilberto Gil is excellent, to say the least. Even though several tracks here, such as Nação Zumbi's "Macô", Cazuza's "Um Trem para as Estrelas and Riachão's "Cada Macaco no seu Galho" are fantastic pieces of music in themselves, this compilation, due to its incoherence, fails to make much sense as a unit or a CD released under Gilberto Gil's name. ~ Philip Jandovský, All Music Guide
