''Uma Estrela Misteriosa Revelará o Segredo'' ("A Mysterious Star Will Reveal the Secret"), sometimes referred to simply as ''Uma Estrela Misteriosa'' ("A Mysterious Star"),
is the tenth studio album by Brazilian singer-songwriter
Nando Reis
Nando Reis (, born José Fernando Gomes dos Reis; January 12, 1963) is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and one of the lead singers of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own ...
. It's his first release of all-new material since ''
Jardim-Pomar'' (2016).
It is a
triple album
A double album (or double record) is an audio album that spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc. A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because the recording i ...
, with each part receiving a word from the first half of the title as its name, and an additional bonus disc with the entire other half as its title.
It features several guest musicians, incluidng
Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.; he played the banjo and mandolin on several R.E.M. songs. Throughout his caree ...
(
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the fir ...
),
Barrett Martin
Barrett Harrington Martin (born April 14, 1967) is an American drummer and record producer from Washington. He is perhaps best known for his work with the alternative rock bands Screaming Trees and Mad Season. He was also a member of Skin Yard ...
(
Screaming Trees
Screaming Trees were an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington, in 1984 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bassist Van Conner, and drummer Mark Pickerel. Pickerel was replaced by Barrett Martin in 1991. Screami ...
),
Duff McKagan
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. McKagan rejoined the b ...
(
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 as a merger of local bands L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose. When they signed to Geffen Records in 1986, the band's "classic" line-up consisted of vocalist Axl R ...
),
Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician, politician and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock music, rock band Nirvana (band), Nirvana.
Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the ban ...
(
Nirvana
Nirvana, in the Indian religions (Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), is the concept of an individual's passions being extinguished as the ultimate state of salvation, release, or liberation from suffering ('' duḥkha'') and from the ...
),
Mike McCready
Michael David McCready (born April 5, 1966) is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season (band), Ma ...
(
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. One of the key bands in the grunge, grunge movement of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam has outsold and outlasted many of its contemporaries from the early 1990s, ...
) and
Matt Cameron
Matthew David Cameron (born November 28, 1962) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Pearl Jam. He first gained fame as the drummer for Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he joined in 1986, appearing on each of the ...
(Pearl Jam,
Soundgarden
Soundgarden was an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1984 by singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto. Cornell switched to rhythm guitar in 1985, replaced on drums initially ...
).
Background, production and recording
Before conceiving the project, Nando Reis considered releasing two albums: one called ''Vermelho Araçá'' ("Araçá Red"), in reference to the album ''
Araçá Azul'', by
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 Tropicália, which encompas ...
, which would contain an unreleased track named "Búfala Vietnamita no Arrozal" ("Vietnamese Female Buffalo in the Paddy Field"); and another one titled ''Reversões'' ("Reversions"), in which Reis would re-record songs penned by him but made famous through other singers' voices.
The effort was released soon after Reis finished
a reunion tour with his former band
Titãs
Titãs (, Portuguese for Titans) are a Brazilian Rock music, rock band from São Paulo. Though they primarily are classified as a rock band, the band have also experimented with genres such as New wave music, new wave, punk rock, ska, grunge, M� ...
.
Originally, the album would be released in 2023, but was pushed back to the following year due to the tour with Titãs being extended as a consequence of its success.
Reis feared he could lose his taste for the album after so long, but that didn't happen.
The project emerged spontaneously after
Barrett Martin
Barrett Harrington Martin (born April 14, 1967) is an American drummer and record producer from Washington. He is perhaps best known for his work with the alternative rock bands Screaming Trees and Mad Season. He was also a member of Skin Yard ...
(
Mad Season /
Screaming Trees
Screaming Trees were an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington, in 1984 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bassist Van Conner, and drummer Mark Pickerel. Pickerel was replaced by Barrett Martin in 1991. Screami ...
) invited Reis and
his band to record two songs for his project ''Singing Earth''. They gathered at the Da Pá Virada studio in
São Paulo
São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
and ended up recording a total of ten tracks, with Martin writing ten additional ones.
The final project featured 26 new songs and 4 re-recordings.
The fourth album, according to Reis, was recorded and conceived after the other three.
It was Martin who managed to invite all the foreign guests for the album, due to his friendship with them.
According to Reis, it was the diversity of participants which lead him to create so many songs, since only an exhaustive repertoire could accommodate all possibilities.
According to a news story by ''
Folha de S.Paulo'',
Mike McCready
Michael David McCready (born April 5, 1966) is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season (band), Ma ...
,
Matt Cameron
Matthew David Cameron (born November 28, 1962) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Pearl Jam. He first gained fame as the drummer for Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he joined in 1986, appearing on each of the ...
,
Duff McKagan
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. McKagan rejoined the b ...
and
Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician, politician and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock music, rock band Nirvana (band), Nirvana.
Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the ban ...
participated with parts previously recorded for other purposes.
The final tracklist has songs composed in the last couple of years, old songs that were still unreleased and songs created during the recording sessions,
covering the period from 1988 to 2024.
They were recorded in São Paulo, in the second semester of 2022,
and finished in
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...
in March 2023.
The six bonus tracks were recorded in 2023, in Seattle, along with a seventh one that was eventually discarded, during a break in the American leg of the
Titãs Encontro tour.
These songs were recorded in a session at
Avast! Studios which ended up being its last before it was renovated and downsized.
This was Reis's first album in which he kept sober during the whole process.
He considers it his most ambitious project and believes he "swam against the tide" by eluding what he sees as a logic of music "pulverization" and "skip".
Themes
The album title is inspired by ''
The Adventures of Tintin
''The Adventures of Tintin'' ( ) is a series of 24 comic albums created by Belgians, Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi, who wrote under the pen name Hergé. The series was one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. By 2007, a c ...
''
's story ''
The Shooting Star
''The Shooting Star'' () is the tenth volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised daily in , Belgium's leading francophone newspaper, from October 1941 to May 1942 amidst th ...
'', which was translated as ''A Estrela Misteriosa'' in Brazil.
At first, it would be simply titled ''Estrela Misteriosa'', but when it became a triple work, Reis wanted to expand its name and his daughter Zoé suggested using the verse "uma estrela misteriosa" from the song "Estrela Misteriosa".
Each word from the title then named one of the three main discs; a fourth album, with six bonus tracks, received the separate title of ''Revelará o Segredo'' ("Will Reveal the Secret") and is exclusive to the box set that Reis offered as an option for people buying the whole project on vinyl.
Nando mentioned
George Harrison
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Culture ...
's ''
All Things Must Pass
''All Things Must Pass'' is the third studio album by George Harrison. Released as a triple album in November 1970, it was Harrison's first solo work after Break-up of the Beatles, the break-up of the Beatles in April that year. It includes th ...
'' as an inspiration for the album;
another work by Harrison which also delighted Reis, the song "
Bangla Desh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population of over 171 million within an area of . Bangl ...
", also inspired him to have two drummers on the same song (Martin and Cameron), since the former Beatle song had
Ringo Starr
Sir Richard Starkey (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame as the drummer for the Beatles. Starr occasionally sang lead vocals with the group, us ...
and
Jim Keltner
James Lee Keltner (born April 27, 1942) is an American drummer and percussionist known primarily for his session work. He was characterized by Bob Dylan biographer Howard Sounes as "the leading session drummer in America". Howard Sounes. ''Do ...
performing together.
Song information
''Uma''
Nando labeled "A Tulha" as an autobiographical song, "sister" to "Pré-Sal" (off the 2012 album ''
Sei''). It was written in
quintuple meter
Quintuple meter or quintuple time is a musical meter (music), meter characterized by five Beat (music), beats in a measure, whether variably or equally stressed.
Like the more common Duple meter, duple, triple meter, triple, and quadruple meter, ...
and has its structure based on texts by Reis.
The address mentioned in the end of the lyrics leads to Reis birth house, in the Jardim Paulistano neighborhood.
"Terra em Flor" and "Dois Reveillóns" were originally written to be offered to
Marisa Monte
Marisa de Azevedo Monte (; born 1 July 1967) is a Brazilian singer, composer, instrumentalist, and producer of Brazilian popular music and samba. As of 2011, she had sold 10 million albums worldwide and has won numerous national and internat ...
, who ended up not using them.
"Em Si, Tais e Quais" was originally written during Reis's tour with duo
Anavitória
Anavitória (Brazilian Portuguese: Help:IPA/Portuguese, /ɐnɐviˈtɔɾjɐ/) is a Brazilian Musical ensemble, musical duo consisting of Ana Clara Caetano Costa and Vitória Fernandes Falcão. Formed in 2015, Anavitória debuted with an EP produce ...
and offered to them, who also declined using it.
"Des-mente" speaks about his relationship with drugs; he begins it by expressing his desire to use them, only to reject them right after.
Reis identified elements of
Roberto and
Erasmo Carlos
Erasmo Carlos (born Erasmo Esteves; 5 June 1941 – 22 November 2022) was a Brazilian singer and songwriter, most closely associated with his friend and longtime collaborator Roberto Carlos (no relation). Together, they created many chart hits ...
,
Raul Seixas,
westerns
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated wit ...
and
mariachi
Mariachi (, , ) is a genre of regional Mexican music dating back to at least the 18th century, evolving over time in the countryside of various regions of western Mexico. The usual mariachi group today consists of as many as eight violins, two ...
in "Coragem É Poder Mostrar".
''Estrela''
Nando described the second disc as "abstract network of nebulous tensions, of contrasts, of contradictions, of frictions and of desire",
and its songs as having "a more mystical, esoteric and space aspect".
The title track "Estrela Misteriosa" was written during the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
, "in the early evening, with the intense frustration of the moment and the image of Jupiter: a quest, a trajectory, a trip".
"Composição" features Pretinho da Serrinha on the percussion arrangement and lists opposites. "Pedra Fundamental" is a love declaration. "Rio Creme" features
Sebastião Reis and
Pedro Lipa on the vocals, with Lipa doubling his voice in ''a
falsetto
Falsetto ( , ; Italian language, Italian diminutive of , "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
It is produced by the vibration of the ...
''. "Tentação" was born from the question "how to turn off the Sun?" - in it, the stars, unreachable due to their astronomical scales, are compared to abstract feelings.
"Estuário" is a declaration to Reis's wife Vânia,
with each pair of the eight stanzas set in a region and the whole lyrics ranging from the evolution of their relationship until the birth of their first son, Theo.
It's one of the two tracks originally created for the supergroup
Levee Walkers (formed by Mike McCready, Duff McKagan and Barrett Martin) but eventually left out of the project, the other being "O Muro".
His new teetotaler era is approached on "Daqui Por Diante", a track originally written just to be performed on his family Christmas celebration. In its lyrics, Reis apologizes to his wife, children and grandson for his past behavior.
''Misteriosa''
"O Muro" uses
echo
In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional to the distance of the reflecting surface from the source and the lis ...
es and has a melody composed by Barrett Martin in collaboration with Matt Cameron.
It's one of two tracks originally made for the Levee Walkers, but which did not make it to the final cut, the other being "Estuário".
In "Ginger e Red", Reis tells the story of a couple marked by differences, despite both being red-haired, but whose passion prevails. It features
Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye (''né'' Kusikoff; born December 27, 1946) is an American guitarist, composer, and writer, notable for his work with the Patti Smith Group, his contributions to music magazines, and his garage rock retrospective anthology '' Nuggets' ...
(
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album '' Horses'' made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fu ...
).
"Na Lagoa" was created over two days from some reflections by Reis on a photograph which brought him some old memories. "Enfim", on the other hand, took only an hour to have its melody and lyrics created based on a demo tape recorded by Barrett and Peter Buck. "Tudo Está Aqui Dentro" also originated from a demo tape by Buck and speaks of missing a person who's no longer present.
"Diz pra Mim" also features Lipa and Sebastião Reis and is based on a poem that Reis had written in 2007.
Nando used some sections of it during his tour with duo
Anavitória
Anavitória (Brazilian Portuguese: Help:IPA/Portuguese, /ɐnɐviˈtɔɾjɐ/) is a Brazilian Musical ensemble, musical duo consisting of Ana Clara Caetano Costa and Vitória Fernandes Falcão. Formed in 2015, Anavitória debuted with an EP produce ...
.
during the pandemic, on a Sunday in
Jaú
Jaú is a city and municipality in the center of the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, in Brazil. The population is 151,881 (2020 est.) in an area of . The elevation is . The city takes its name from the native fish species ''Gilded catfish ...
, he decided to finish the song. The piece, especially its vocals, reminded him of "
You Are the Sunshine of My Life
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder's third number-one single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award ...
", by
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (; Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th c ...
, and "
1999
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Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
", by
Prince
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
.
"Macapá" is a re-recording of a track that Reis wrote during a flight to
the capital of Amapá.
The closing track "Tome o Seu Lugar" features
Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician, politician and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock music, rock band Nirvana (band), Nirvana.
Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the ban ...
on the
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"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 (mou ...
and explores the paradox of loving a person with characteristics that initially make them unattractive, or that should make them unattractive.
''Revelará o Segredo''
"Corpo e Colo" is one of the four re-recordings and was also written during a flight; it was first used in the album ''Novela'' (2024), by singer
Céu
Maria do Céu Whitaker Poças (born 17 April 1980), known professionally by the mononym Céu (), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter whose first American album was released on the Six Degrees Records label in April 2007.
Early life and educati ...
.
"Rhipsalis", originally called "Janaína",
was inspired by the death of a singer with whom Reis had a scheduled meeting, and the lyrics talk about loss and mismatch.
The singer was a possible rising star tutored by
Rick Bonadio
Ricardo "Rick" Bonadio (born June 21, 1969) is a Brazilian music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer, owner of Midas Studio and record companies Arsenal Music and Midas Music.
Career
He began his career in the 80's as a ...
, who in the 1990s sought Reis to compose a song for her. The pair arranged a meeting at Reis's house on a Monday, but she died in an accident and never showed up.
"Aparição" has a melody by Pedro Baby, which inspired Nando Reis to write a "faster and more fluid" song.
"Depois de Amanhã" was originally created in 1996 and registered on a demo tape, being revisited during the pandemic. It features Fernando Magalhães, who also played on the demo version of nearly 30 years before.
"Firmamento" was born out of the merging of two different parts and some unfinished lyrics, being finished in
Maceió
Maceió (), formerly anglicised as Maceio, is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state of Alagoas, Brazil. The name "Maceió" is an Indigenous term for a Spring (hydrology), spring.
Most maceiós flow to the sea, but some get trapped ...
. It establishes a parallel between the
firmament
In ancient near eastern cosmology, the firmament means a celestial barrier that separates the heavenly waters above from the Earth below. In biblical cosmology, the firmament ( ''rāqīaʿ'') is the vast solid dome created by God during the G ...
and the desire for a loved person, when they promise the skies. "Para Voar" is the last re-recording of the album, originally conceived to be sung by a woman.
Art
The art project was authored by Reis's daughter, Zoé Passos,
and Daniel Taglieri.
The album covers consist of pictures of Reis in the Arembepe Beach in
Camaçari
Camaçari is a city in Bahia, Brazil. It is located at . It is part of the Salvador, Bahia, Salvador Metropolitan Region (''Região Metropolitana de Salvador''), being the industrial city of the metropolis. Camaçari covers , and had an estimate ...
,
Bahia
Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...
, in 1976,
during a photo session that, according to him, alludes to the pictures of ''
Araçá Azul'', by
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 Tropicália, which encompas ...
.
A symbol based on the
stapelia
''Stapelia'' is a genus of low-growing, spineless, stem succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa with a few from other parts of Africa. Several Asian and Latin American species were formerly included but they have all now been transfer ...
flower was created by Passos and incorporated in the project.
Release
Each part of the album was released on a different date. ''Uma'' was released on 23 July (initially in an EP format containing five songs
); ''Estrela'' and ''Misteriosa'' came out on 2 and 9 August, respectively, and the complete box set was put on sale on 27 July.
On 20 September, the full version of the album was released on streaming services.
23 July also marked the album release event, held at a movie theater close to
Paulista Avenue
Paulista Avenue (Avenida Paulista in Portuguese language, Portuguese, ''Paulistas, Paulista'' being the demonym for those born in the state of State of São Paulo, São Paulo) is one of the most important avenues in São Paulo (city), São Paulo, ...
. There, Reis premiered a short documentary covering the album creation, directed by
Raimo Benedetti.
The release was also marked by a country-wide, four-month tour from September to December 2024, featuring Buck and Martin,
who couldn't stay longer given their foreigner status.
Reis was also accompanied by longtime partners
Walter Villaça on the guitar,
Felipe Cambraia on the bass and
Alex Veley on the keyboards, besides his son Sebastião Reis on the acoustic guitar.
The first show was held at the
Fortaleza de São José in
Macapá
Macapá () is a city in Brazil with a population of 512,902 (2020 estimate), and is the capital of Amapá state in the country's North Region, Brazil, North Region, located on the northern channel of the Amazon Delta near its mouth on the Atlant ...
on 20 September,
marking the
Spring equinox.
The album tour was founded on four pillars: inclusion (with the presence of a
Brazilian Sign Language
Brazilian Sign Language ( ) is the sign language used by deaf communities of Brazil. It is commonly known in short as Libras ().
Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) is a well-established language and legally recognized.[disabled
Disability is the experience of any condition that makes it more difficult for a person to do certain activities or have equitable access within a given society. Disabilities may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physica ...]
people aid professionals), overcoming (due to it being his first album as a teetotaler), sustainability (the shows minded protocols and indicators aligned with 17
UN Sustainable Development Goals
The ''2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development'', adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim of these global goals is "peace and prosperity for people and the planet" – wh ...
)
and authenticity.
Reception
Critical reception
Mauro Ferreira, who by the time of the project announcement called Reis's strategy "bold",
gave ''Uma'', the first part, maximum score on ''
G1'', saying that the album "sees the songwriter in a state of grace, between rock and ballads, presenting good melodies".
In his review of the whole album, he once again pointed the boldness of releasing a quadruple album in the age of streaming but said Reis "rides without slipping through a dangerous road" and that the songs "are aesthetically refined for carrying Nando Reis's D.N.A. as a composer, which unifies the four albums." He praised the vigor that Reis still displays as a composer and concluded saying that he "reaches the end of this long authored road standing up strong and pointing to a bright future" for him.
Journalist Ricardo Schott, in his website Pop Fantasma, considered that the singer applied on the album ''Estrela'' "a certain
heartland MPB based on rocking riffs, almost heavy base, lyrics that show different day-to-day details, and a certain idealized, return-to-the-past romanticism"; according to him, a characteristic of his repertoire. He also praised the brass arrangements, comparing them to "a mixture of popular 1970s MPB and
Dexy's Mindnight Runners ic, and also comparing "Azul Febril" to "a MPB-ballad version of '
Ballet for a Rainy Day', by
XTC
XTC were an English rock band formed in Swindon in 1972. Fronted by songwriters Andy Partridge (vocals, guitars) and Colin Moulding (vocals, bass), the band gained popularity during the rise of punk and new wave in the 1970s, later playing ...
". On the other hand, he considered some songs repetitive and that the singer "doesn't know how to mix metaphors and simple conversations
.. In the triple album, this willingness to exaggerate in the images and have a tough ride through hermeticism becomes clear in many lyrics." He finished saying that the album was made for "true fans", but that as a product more broadly speaking, it has strong and weak points.
Tribute
When the album was fully released on digital platforms,
ONErpm paid a tribute to Reis by naming a star in
Capricornus
Capricornus is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Its name is Latin for "horned goat" or "goat Horn (anatomy), horn" or "having horns like a goat's", and it is commonly represented in the form of a sea goat: a mythical creature that is hal ...
- which corresponds to
his Zodiac sign - after him.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits according to several sources
*
Nando Reis
Nando Reis (, born José Fernando Gomes dos Reis; January 12, 1963) is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and one of the lead singers of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own ...
— vocals and acoustic guitar
*
Walter Villaça — guitar
*
Peter Buck
Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter. He was a co-founder and the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M.; he played the banjo and mandolin on several R.E.M. songs. Throughout his caree ...
(
R.E.M.
R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the fir ...
) — guitar
*
Mike McCready
Michael David McCready (born April 5, 1966) is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season (band), Ma ...
(
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American Rock music, rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. One of the key bands in the grunge, grunge movement of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam has outsold and outlasted many of its contemporaries from the early 1990s, ...
) — guitar
*
Andy Coe — guitar on "Rhipsalis"
*
Lenny Kaye
Lenny Kaye (''né'' Kusikoff; born December 27, 1946) is an American guitarist, composer, and writer, notable for his work with the Patti Smith Group, his contributions to music magazines, and his garage rock retrospective anthology '' Nuggets' ...
(
Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album '' Horses'' made her an influential member of the New York City-based punk rock movement. Smith has fu ...
) — guitar on "Ginger e Red"
*
Sebastião Reis —
twelve-string guitar
A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 string (music), strings in six Course (music), courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lo ...
*
Felipe Cambraia — bass
*
Duff McKagan
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964) is an American musician. He was the bassist of hard rock band Guns N' Roses for twelve years, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. McKagan rejoined the b ...
(
Guns N' Roses
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) — bass
*
Alex Veley — keyboards
*
Joe Doria —
Hammond organ
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on "Rhipsalis"
*
Barrett Martin
Barrett Harrington Martin (born April 14, 1967) is an American drummer and record producer from Washington. He is perhaps best known for his work with the alternative rock bands Screaming Trees and Mad Season. He was also a member of Skin Yard ...
(
Screaming Trees
Screaming Trees were an American rock band formed in Ellensburg, Washington, in 1984 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bassist Van Conner, and drummer Mark Pickerel. Pickerel was replaced by Barrett Martin in 1991. Screami ...
) — drums; synthesizer on "Rhipsalis"
*
Matt Cameron
Matthew David Cameron (born November 28, 1962) is an American musician who is the drummer for the rock band Pearl Jam. He first gained fame as the drummer for Seattle-based rock band Soundgarden, which he joined in 1986, appearing on each of the ...
(Pearl Jam) — drums
*
Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic (; ; born May 16, 1965) is an American musician, politician and activist. Novoselic co-founded and played bass on every album for the rock music, rock band Nirvana (band), Nirvana.
Novoselic and Kurt Cobain formed the ban ...
(
Nirvana
Nirvana, in the Indian religions (Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), is the concept of an individual's passions being extinguished as the ultimate state of salvation, release, or liberation from suffering ('' duḥkha'') and from the ...
) —
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German language, German ', from '—"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 (mou ...
on "Tome o Seu Lugar"
* Pretinho da Serrinha — percussion arrangement on "Composição"
*
Antonio Neves — wind arrangement on "Corpo e Colo"
;Technical personnel
* Barrett Martin — production
* Felipe Cambraia — production
*
Diogo Damascena — executive production
*
Jack Endino
Jack Endino (born Michael M. Giacondino; 1964) is an American producer and musician based in Seattle, Washington. Long associated with Seattle label Sub Pop and the grunge movement, Endino worked on seminal albums from bands including Mudhoney, ...
— mixing
* Zoé Passos and Daniel Taglieri — art project
Notes
References
External links
''Uma Estrela Misteriosa''on Nando Reis's official website
''Uma Estrela Misteriosa'' documentaryon
YouTube
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Portuguese-language albums
Self-released albums
2024 albums
Nando Reis albums