Bicho

Caetano made Bicho after a month in Lagos with Gil at FESTAC '77, and African music, jùjú above all, runs through it. He said Two Naira Fifty Kobo came from a Nigerian bus driver playing jùjú on his tape deck. Um Índio is a reggae with apocalyptic lyrics, and O Leãozinho, which he plays alone with guitar and whistle, was written for the bassist Dadi. The title, meaning animal or creature, was a late-1960s term of endearment. Perinho Albuquerque produced, Paulinho Chocolate mixed, and Caetano designed the cover.

Parts of the left and of the music press called it an invitation to alienation and wanted from him the engagement of Gil or Chico Buarque, Rolling Stone Brasil recalled in 2023. When Cacá Diegues coined the phrase ideological patrols in 1978, Caetano took it up often, and the cartoonist Henfil mocked it as the Odara patrol. AllMusic gives the album four and a half stars.