Clube da Esquina 2 is a 1978 album by Brazilian singer-songwriter Milton Nascimento. The album serves as a continuation to the Clube da Esquina album and the related eponymous musical movement initiated in the 1960s by a group of musicians from Minas Gerais.[1][2] The album retained the collective approach, stylistic diversity, and experimental elements of its predecessor, spread across two LPs with 23 tracks.[3] The album featured a broader range of collaborators, including Brazilian artists like Elis Regina, Chico Buarque, and Francis Hime.[4] Musically, the album establishes a dialogue with previous album songs, either through the continuity of the same song or by the presentation of similar elements.[5]
Alvaro Neder, for AllMusic, gave the album a score of four out of five stars and wrote that the album "evidences details unsuspected in the original vinyl" and noted that the album "crystallizes a group of friends/composers from the Minas Gerais state" while continuing the work begun with Clube Da Esquina. He described the tracklist as "testimonies of a certain period of Brazil's history told with expressiveness and passion".[6] The record was described by music journalist Chris McGowan as more of "a pan-South American fusion, with less rock and not as much as North American influence".[8] Nascimento mentioned in 2013 that his 1994 album Angelus could be considered "a Clube da Esquina 3".[9]
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2004). Eliscu, Jenny; Pearlman, Nina (eds.). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p.569.
↑ McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Ricardo (1998). The Brazilian sound: samba, bossa nova, and the popular music of Brazil. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p.109. ISBN978-1-56639-544-1.
Mello, Paulo Thiago de (2020). Milton Nascimento e Lô Borges: Clube da Esquina. O Livro do Disco (in Brazilian Portuguese). Editora Cobogó (published 21 April 2020). ISBN978-65-5691-002-4.
Grasse, Jonathon (2020). Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges's The Corner Club. 33 1/3 Brazil. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN978-1-5013-4684-2.
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