''Amor Louco'' ( Portuguese for ''Mad Love'') is the fourth studio album by Brazilian post-punk band Fellini. It was released on February 15, 1990 by now-defunct independent record label Wop-Bop Records and re-released in CD form in 2001 by another independent label, RDS. It was originally Fellini's last album, due to their break-up in the following year; however, they reunited in 2001 and released another album, ''

Amanhã É Tarde ''Amanhã É Tarde'' (Portuguese for ''Tomorrow's Too Late'') is the fifth studio album by Brazilian band Fellini. It was released on March 4, 2002, by independent ''carioca'' label Midsummer Madness. It is their first album of new material since ...

''. After his absence from the previous album, Jair Marcos returned as the guitarist, thus having Fellini's original line-up once more. ''Amor Louco'' is characterized for the diminished "scuzzy" post-punk-esque instrumentation, instead adopting a more light-hearted style reminiscent of samba rock, ''

bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovativ ...

'' and MPB. It is also their first album to feature lyrics written in English, them being "Chico Buarque Song" and "Love Till the Morning". The track "LSD" narrates an experience frontman Cadão Volpato had when he used lysergic acid diethylamide.Amor Louco – Disco Furado

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* "Aeroporto" is an acoustic bonus track. * The CD re-release merges the tracks "É o Destino" and "Aeroporto" into one, thus making a single track with 5:58 minutes long and making "Aeroporto" a hidden bonus track.

Personnel

; Fellini * Cadão Volpato — vocals,

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, keyboards * Jair Marcos — acoustic guitar, backing vocals * Ricardo Salvagni — bass, rhythm programming * Thomas Pappon — acoustic guitar, backing vocals, rhythm programming ; Additional personnel * Tancred Pappon —

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(on tracks 6, 9) * Karla Xavier — female backing vocals (on track 9) * R.H Jackson — rhythm programming (on track 7) ; Miscellaneous staff *Recorded from June to November 1989 at OBJ Studio (16 channels), São Paulo * Célia Saito — photography * Cadão Volpato — cover (drawing) * N artes — final art * R. H. Jackson and Fellini — production and mixing * Benoni Rubmaier — remastering (cd version) * Remastered in Y B studios * Alex Cecci — A & R * Adaptation and Photolithography — 23 design * 1989 end of the Berlin Wall

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