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Clube da Esquina

The double album credited to Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges.
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges, 1972

Milton Miranda handled production direction and Lindolfo Gaya musical direction, with Milton supervising the music and Jorge Teixeira, Nivaldo Duarte and Zilmar de Araújo engineering. Beto Guedes played on 17 of the 21 tracks, with orchestrations mainly by Eumir Deodato and Wagner Tiso and Paulo Moura conducting. Toninho Horta, Robertinho Silva and Alaíde Costa also appear, and the lyricists are Márcio Borges, Fernando Brant and Ronaldo Bastos. The cover photograph by Cafi shows two boys on a dirt road near Nova Friburgo, often mistaken for Milton and Lô.

It entered Rio's IBOPE chart at 9 on April 15, 1972 and peaked at 8. AllMusic gave it five stars, Pitchfork's Andy Beta 9.5, and Rolling Stone and The Times three and a half and four. It appeared in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and the Discoteca Básica podcast named it the greatest Brazilian album in 2022. Milton performed the album at the Barbican in London on June 17, 2019.

Track listing

  1. Tudo Que Você Podia Ser2:57
  2. Cais2:45
  3. O Trem Azul4:05
  4. Saídas e Bandeiras Nº 10:45
  5. Nuvem Cigana2:59
  6. Cravo e Canela2:31
  7. Dos Cruces5:22
  8. Um Girassol da Cor de Seu Cabelo4:12
  9. San Vicente2:46
  10. Estrelas0:28
  11. Clube da Esquina Nº 23:38
  12. Paisagem da Janela2:58
  13. Me Deixa Em Paz3:05
  14. Os Povos4:30
  15. Saídas e Bandeiras Nº 21:30
  16. Um Gosto de Sol4:20
  17. Pelo Amor de Deus2:06
  18. Lilia2:33
  19. Trem de Doido3:58
  20. Nada Será Como Antes3:23
  21. Ao Que Vai Nascer3:22

Sources

  1. Clube da Esquina (album), Wikipedia
  2. Clube da Esquina (álbum), Wikipedia (Portuguese)
  3. Clube da Esquina faz 40 anos, Rolling Stone Brasil