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Giovane Rodrigues | 03/12/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the most radical, experimental album from Milton's great years. Don't expect great, singable songs (of course there's the title track, and "sacramento), but rather haunting ambiances, jungle cries, children's chants, hummed prayers, and even a bar pianist's despair playing to a noisy crowd. It's cinemascope motion pictures for your ears: extremely innovative, and extremely intense.
5 stars:definatively, as this ressembles nothing that ever has been done, even by Milton himself."

Milton with the great Naná Vasconcelos

Giovane Rodrigues | São Paulo, Brasil | 06/12/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This great album brings us the band that played with Milton in the 70's, Som Imaginário, that includes names as Toninho Horta on guitars and Wagner Tiso on keyboards. But the great presence of this album is the percussionist Naná Vasconcelos. He ambients the album with his nature sounds in such a beautiful unity with Milton that we can't remain uneasy while playing the record. A great album follows this one: The 74's Milagre dos Peixes ao Vivo, recorded during the tour in São Paulo. Unfortunetly the Amazon consumers have no access to this record, which I think must be as soon as possible provide... in this live record one can hear Milton's experimental period in all its potency...

The wordless songs have a political reason. When the lyrics were submited to the censorship of the brazilian dictatorship, it was almost completly forbidden. The result is this anguish in every syllable pronounced, mirror of the anguish of the whole nation.

The "Fish's miracle" shows the unique voice of one of the greatest brazilian genious."