''Gal'' or ''Gal Costa'' is the second album by Brazilian singer

Gal Costa Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos; 26 September 1945 – 9 November 2022), known professionally as Gal Costa (), was a Brazilian singer of popular music. She was one of the main figures of the tro ...

, released months after the first album ''

''. To distinguish it from Costa's previous release, the album is sometimes referred to as ''Cinema Olympia'', the title of its first track. It is considered by the public and critics alike as her most psychedelic and experimental album. The music in the album has been considered unprecedented. Andy Beta of ''

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'' described the album as "the equivalent of

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recording with

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" and "one of the heaviest documents of

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Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. *

– vocals *Manoel Barenbein – production *Dircinho – illustration *

Rogério Duprat Rogério Duprat (7 February 1932 – 26 October 2006) was a Brazilian composer and musician. Biography Born in Rio de Janeiro, Duprat spent much of his life in São Paulo, where he died. It was there in the early 1960s that he developed an intere ...

– arrangement *Diogenes Burani Filho – drums *Freitas – Photography * Alexander Gordin – guitar, bass *Rodolpho Grani Júnior - bass *Dudu Portes – drums *

Jards Macalé Jards Anet da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, March 3, 1943), known as Macalé, is a Brazilian composer, singer and actor, known for his influential role in Brazil's tropicália movement in the 1960s. Background Jards Macalé was born in Rio de Janeiro ...

– guitar *

Caetano Veloso Caetano Emanuel Viana Teles Veloso (; born 7 August 1942) is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encomp ...

– liner notes

References

External links

* 1969 albums Gal Costa albums {{1960s-rock-album-stub