ARNALDO DIAS BAPTISTA

A DIVINA COMÉDIA OU ANDO MEIO DESLIGADO (Polydor, 1970)

Musical Producer: Arnaldo Sacomani

After re-inventing Miguel Cervantes’s Dom Quixote, the Mutantes turned Italian poet Dante Alighieri ‘s The Divine Comedy into a pop-psychedelic inferno. Roughly summarising, the 1969’s album was experimental, this is revolutionary. Never before in Bazilian music history had a group or artist gone so far and radical. The Divina Comedia… buried all divisions and musical segments. It is a fusion of pop, experimentalism, vanguard, kitsch, rigour, informality, rock… There is a version of ‘Preciso Urgentemente Encontrar um Amigo’ (I need to find a friend urgently) from Roberto and Erasmo Carlos (the kings of the so called Brazilian iê-iê-iê). Rogério Duprat presented his best ever arrangement for the classic ‘Chão de Estrelas’ (Floor of Stars) from Silvio Caldas and Orestes Barbosa. The Mutantes hit their head with Dante in ‘Ave Lucifer’ and ‘Oh! Mulher Infiel’ (Oh! Unfaithful woman). Dinho and Liminha were already part of the group. This album also had collaborators such as Raphael Vilardi (vocal and acoustic guitar) and Naná Vasconcelos (percussion). All arranged by the magisterial touch of Rogerio Duprat. (Marcelo Dolabela, Oct/Nov 1999).

1-Ando Meio Desligado
2-Quem Tem Mêdo de Brincar de Amor
3-Ave Lúcifer
4-Desculpe Babe
5-Meu Refrigerador Não Funciona
6-Hey Boy
7-Preciso Urgentemente Encontrar Um Amigo
8-Chão de Estrêlas
9-Jôgo de Calçada
10-Haleluia
11-Oh! Mulher Infiel