Gilberto Gil (Frevo Rasgado)

The second album, with Os Mutantes behind him and Rogério Duprat arranging.
Gilberto Gil, 1968

Released
1968
Label
Philips
Producer
Manoel Barenbein

Gil's second album is also known as Frevo Rasgado, after its first track. It was produced by Manoel Barenbein and arranged by Rogério Duprat, with Os Mutantes as the backing band. Gil wrote Domingou and Marginália II with Torquato Neto, Frevo Rasgado with Leonardo Bruno and Pega a Voga, Cabeludo with Juan Arcon. Domingo no Parque, the song that took second place at the 1967 TV Record festival, closes the record.

In a January 1968 interview with the magazine InterValo, Gil said Domingou is about a Sunday in Rio and has nothing to do with Domingo no Parque. The cover was made by Antonio Dias and Rogério Duarte around a photograph by David Drew Zingg of Gil in a military uniform. The back cover repeats the idea with photos of Gil in a leather hat and again in the general's clothes.

Pitchfork's Kevin Lozano noted that the cover shows three portraits of Gil, as a statesman, a combat-ready soldier and someone ready to party. He described an album that crams together psychedelic rock, samba and popular music from all over the world, with Os Mutantes providing "youthful rock'n'roll vigor" and Duprat lending stately orchestral arrangements. Rolling Stone Brasil ranked the album 78th among the greatest Brazilian records in 2007.

Track listing

  1. Frevo Rasgado1:52
  2. Coragem Pra Suportar2:53
  3. Domingou2:53
  4. Marginália II2:40
  5. Pega a Voga, Cabeludo4:39
  6. Ele Falava Nisso Todo Dia2:32
  7. Procissão2:45
  8. Luzia Luluza4:01
  9. Pé da Roseira3:02
  10. Domingo no Parque3:40

Personnel

More from Gilberto Gil

Louvação (1967), Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis (1968), Gilberto Gil (1969), Gilberto Gil (Nêga) (1971), Expresso 2222 (1972), Gil & Jorge: Ogum Xangô (1975), Refazenda (1975), Refavela (1977), Nightingale (1979), Realce (1979), Luar (A Gente Precisa Ver o Luar) (1981), Um Banda Um (1982)

Sources

  1. Gilberto Gil (álbum de 1968), Wikipédia
  2. Gilberto Gil (1968 LP), Discogs
  3. The Story of Tropicalia in 20 Albums, Pitchfork (2017-06-19)