Refavela [Import]

1. Refavela

2. Ile Aye

3. Aqui E Agora

4. Norte Da Saudade

5. Baba Alapala

6. Sandra

7. Samba Do Aviao

8. Era Nova

9. Balafon

10. Patuscada De Gandhi

11. Sitio Do Pica-pau Amarelo (Bonus Track)

12. A Gaivota (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
2003 remastered reissue of the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter's 1977 album features 12 tracks including 2 bonus tracks, 'Sito Do Pica-Pau Amarelo' & 'A Gaivota'. Warner Music Brazil.

Tracks:

Refavela
Ile Aye
Aqui e Agora
No Norte da Saudade
Baba Alapala
Sandra
Samba do Aviao
Era Nova
Balafon
Patuscada de Gandhi (Afoxe Filhos de Gandhi)
Sitio Do Pica Pau Amarelo c 1985
Gaivota

Album Description

2003 remastered reissue of the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter's 1977 album features 12 tracks including 2 bonus tracks, 'Sito Do Pica-Pau Amarelo' & 'A Gaivota'. Warner Music Brazil.

Customer Reviews:

Escoteiro.......2005-08-11

I am soooooo pleased that this gem has been re-released. I was living in Brazil when this LP came out and I got a chance to see Gilberto Gil in concert to promote it. It is among the best material that Gilberto Gil has put together, barring his late 60's stuff. Buy it and enjoy.

Average customer rating:

que buen disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pre-world, music

Refavela
Gilberto Gil
Manufacturer: WEA Latina
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000G833
Release Date: 1996-12-11

Tracks:

Refavela
Ily
Aqui E Agora
No Norte da Saudade
Babla Pal
Sandra
Samba do Avi
Era Nova
Balafon
Patuscada de Gandhi

Album Details

This 1977 Album was Deeply Influenced by Gil Exploration of African Culture. It Includes 'baba Alapala' (An Homage to the Candombl God XangÖ), the Marvellous Afox 'patuscada De Gandhi' and Several Songs with Yoruba Words.

Customer Reviews:

que buen disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-07-30

escuchen este disco, por favor, y aprendan.
es muy africa, de lo mejor que escuché de este monstruo de brasil.
escuchen tam,bien: Banda Um, y Unplugged

pre-world, music.......2000-06-26

at the end of the sixties gil lived in london, where he learned how the whole thing was put together: baiao, bossa nova, the rest. this album was not born there. its older brother 'expresso 2222' was not born there either. but london became gil's reference. if 2222 is gil's best album ever, refavela is the next in majestic line. why then this business of london? it was there where gil spent a good chunk of time playing in the street with people of the world. he da bahia, the others from bahia. from london he went back to brazil, released a couple great records and in 77 put this great pre-world music album in the market. i had never heard of balafon before. i had heard that gil had gone to africa and here was the result. this album had more than an african gil in the cover. it had the name refavela, re-slum, written on the top of little paper adornements used during a mid-year celebration: festa de sao joao. this visual salad was a reminder of the tropicalismo and its grand dad modernismo. mix/remix. here was re-favela, a poetic sign from and to the people who migrated to brazil. black. black and white. pop music under cancer and capricorn, brazil, bahia, africa, rio, not london, london. tru-ly good. minor issue with a jobim song. not with the song or interpretation, but with its 7th track spot. this song ('samba do aviao') should be either first, last or out. problem? "samba do aviao" speaks of airplanes and emotions, rio. this album is a trip. a trip starts in rio or in africa ending in rio, not in the 7th track (also, it sounds a bit flat despite its funky-bissau beat). a trip to and from carnival. from africa to africa. to the mental hospital where they put him for ganjing ('sandra' is a song to the women he met there). to africa again in 'baba alapala', 'balafon', 'ile aye'. to africa/bahia in 'patuscada de gandhi'. to his mind in 'aqui e agora' and 'era nova'. back to rio in 'refavela'. back to pixinguinha, a brazilian master (another one from xango's tribe). to sao joao xango menino. marimba and the balafon, this is pure pre-world music: something re-invented in africa, educated in london and born in brazil. a masterpiece. plus ultra. no less.