Nação Nordestina is the fifteenth studio album and first

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by Brazilian solo artist Zé Ramalho. It was released in 2000. The cover art of the album is clearly based on The Beatles' ''

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''. It is a concept album which tells the history of a traveller exploring the

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Track listing

Personnel

* Zé Ramalho –

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on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 viola on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20

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on all tracks except for 11,

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on track 3, ponteios on track 11 *

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– Lead vocals on track 13 * Ivete Sangalo – Lead vocals on track 15 * Fagner – Lead vocals on track 16 * Flávio José – Lead vocals on track 17 * Cascabulho – Lead vocals on track 18 * Silvério Pessoa – Lead vocals on track 18 * Naná Vasconcelos – Lead vocals on track 1, calabash on track 11, percussion on track 12 *

Rick Ferreira Rick may refer to: People *Rick (given name), a list of people with the given name *Alan Rick (born 1976), Brazilian politician, journalist, pastor and television personality *Johannes Rick (1869–1946), Austrian-born Brazilian priest and mycol ...

– Electric guitar on track 8 * Pepeu Gomes – electric guitar on track 16 *

Chico Guedes Chico () means ''small'', ''boy'' or ''child'' in the Spanish language. It is also the nickname for Francisco in the Portuguese language (). Chico may refer to: Places *Chico, California, a city *Chico, Montana, an unincorporated community *Chic ...

– Bass guitar on tracks 4, 8, 17 * Artur Maia – Bass guitar on tracks 6, 9, 10, 15 * Jamil Joanes – Bass guitar on track 16, 20 * Cláudio Ribeiro – Bass guitar on track 18 * Mingo Araújo – Percussion on track 4, 16 * João Firmino – Percussion on track 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, triangle on track 11 * Zé Gomes – Percussion on tracks 9, 14, 15, 17, 20 pandeiro on track 11 * Zé Leal – Percussion on tracks 9, 14, 15, 17, 20 * Duane – Percussion on tracks 9, 14, 15, 17, 20 zabumba on track 11 * Kleber Magrão – Triangle on track 18 * Marcos Lopes – Agogô on track 18 * Wilson Farias – Pandeiro and ilú on track 18 *

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– Zabumba and ilú on track 18 * César Micheles –

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on tracks 9, 13, saxophone on track 13, fifes on track 17 * Zé da Flauta – Flute on track 18 * Marcos Moleta – Rebec on track 10 * Hermeto Pascoal – Melodica on track 11 * Lito Viana –

Cavaquinho The cavaquinho (pronounced in Portuguese) is a small Portuguese string instrument in the European guitar family, with four wires or gut strings. More broadly, ''cavaquinho'' is the name of a four-stringed subdivision of the lute family of instr ...

on track 18 * Dominguinhos –

Accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

on tracks 4, 8, 14 * Waldonys – Accordion on tracks 5, 7, 12, 15, 16, 20 * Silveirinha – Accordion on track 18, choir on track 10 * Luiz Antônio – Arrangement on tracks 1, 8, 19 keyboard on tracks 1, 6, 19, bass guitar on tracks 12, 14 *

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– Arrangement on track 1 * Robertinho de Recife – Arrangement on tracks 3, 12, 13, 16,

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on track 3, electric guitar on tracks 4, 5, 6, 8, 20 vocalise on track 7,

charango The charango is a small Andean stringed instrument of the lute family, from the Quechua and Aymara populations in the territory of the Altiplano in post-Colonial times, after European stringed instruments were introduced by the Spanish during c ...

on track 7, sitar on track 13, on berimbau on track 10, cavaquinho on track 14 * Armandinho – Baiana electric guitar on track 15 * Léo Ortiz – Violin on track 13 * Glauco Fernandes – Violin on track 13 * Luiz Fernando Zamith – Cello on track 13 * Nayran Pessanha – Viola on track 13 * Dênis Ferreira – Choir on track 10 *

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– Choir on track 10 * Fábio Luna – Choir on track 10 * Fabrício Signorelli – Choir on track 10 * Lucas Amorim – Choir on track 10 *

Roberta de Recife ''Roberta'' is a musical from 1933 with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics and book by Otto Harbach. The musical is based on the novel ''Gowns by Roberta'' by Alice Duer Miller. It features the songs " Yesterdays", " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "L ...

– Choir on track 10 * Adriana B.B. – Choir on track 10

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nacao Nordestina 2000 albums Zé Ramalho albums 2000s concept albums