Gal Costa
Posted in Foreign, dance by teabog on May 24th, 2007
Gal Costa
“Samba Rosgado” (From the album Gal Tropical)
Ever since I saw Os Mutantes’ last year, I’ve made it a habit to pick up every “Island Beats” or Brazillian LP that I come across. And, man, I come across a lot. Most of the records that I buy are at Goodwill, and most come in big piles since after an old person dies his or her kids send all their music to Goodwill for psychopaths like me to paw through. Aside from Christian music and classical, tropical and Brazilian albums are far and away the LPs that are most commonly found in Goodwill stores in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls metro area. I can’t explain it—it just is.
Anyhow, the majority of these albums sound exactly the same, but there have been a handful that have stuck out. Gal Costa is consistently brilliant. This track is off her 80’s release, “Gal Tropical,” and it sounds kinda like the theme from “Moonlighting” if “Moonlighting” was made in Brazil.