Clube da Esquina 2

Clube da Esquina 2
Studio album by Milton Nascimento
Released	1978
Recorded	1978
Genre	Jazz pop [1]
Length	60:20
Label	Odeon
Milton Nascimento chronology
Milton (1977) Clube da Esquina 2 (1978) Journey to Dawn (1979)

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. ^{[2] [3]} The album retained the collective approach, stylistic diversity, and experimental elements of its predecessor, spread across two LPs with 23 tracks. ^[4] The album featured a broader range of collaborators, including Brazilian artists like Elis Regina, Chico Buarque, and Francis Hime. ^[5] 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. ^[6]

Critical reception and legacy

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Stafford Post	9/10 [9]

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". ^[7] 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". ^[10] Nascimento mentioned in 2013 that his 1994 album Angelus could be considered "a Clube da Esquina 3". ^[11]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Credo"	Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant	3:02
2.	"Nascente"	Flávio Venturini, Murilo Antunes	3:20
3.	"Ruas da Cidade"	Lô Borges, Márcio Borges	3:00
4.	"Paixão e Fé"	Tavinho Moura, Brant	3:40
5.	"Casamiento de Negros"	Violeta Parra	3:50
6.	"Olho d'Água"	Paulo Jobim, Ronaldo Bastos	4:30

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"Canoa, Canoa"	Nelson Angelo, Brant	3:59
8.	"O Que Foi Feito Deverá / O Que Foi Feito de Vera"	Nascimento, Fernando Brant, M. Borges	5:06
9.	"Mistérios"	Joyce Moreno, Maurício Maestro	4:01
10.	"Pão e Água"	L. Borges, M. Borges, Roger Mota	2:34
11.	"E Daí? (A Queda)"	Nascimento, Ruy Guerra	5:13

Side three

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Canção Amiga"	Nascimento, Carlos Drummond de Andrade	2:32
13.	"Canción por la Unidad Latinoamericana"	Pablo Milanés, Chico Buarque	3:54
14.	"Tanto"	Beto Guedes, Bastos	3:33
15.	"Dona Olímpia"	Toninho Horta, Bastos	2:38
16.	"Testamento"	Angelo, Nascimento	3:54
17.	"A Sede do Peixe (Para o que Não Tem Solução)"	Nascimento, M. Borges	2:24

Side four

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
18.	"Léo"	Nascimento, Buarque	4:03
19.	"Maria, Maria"	Nascimento, Brant	3:02
20.	"Meu Menino"	Danilo Caymmi, Ana Terra	2:37
21.	"Toshiro"	Novelli	3:26
22.	"Reis e Rainhas do Maracatu"	Nascimento, Novelli, Angelo, Fran	2:37
23.	"Que Bom Amigo"	Nascimento	2:51

References

1. Takiff, Jonathan (5 February 1995). "New this month: Releases from Bowie, Springsteen". The Monitor . p. 40. Retrieved 23 March 2025– via Newspapers.com.
2. Mello 2020, p. 91.
3. Grasse 2020, p. 11.
4. Clube da Esquina 2. Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural de Arte e Cultura Brasileira. 21 February 2021. ISBN   978-85-7979-060-7 . Retrieved 5 February 2025.
5. "Milton Nascimento e o Clube da Esquina 2: Um símbolo da música brasileira". Rolling Stone Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). 7 February 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
6. Nunes 2005, pp. 54–55.
7. Neder, Alvaro. "Clube da Esquina, Vol. 2 by Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
8. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (2004). "The new Rolling Stone album guide" . Rolling Stone . New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 569. ISSN   0035-791X . Retrieved 23 March 2025– via the Internet Archive.
9. Evans, Chris (4 May 1995). "Music for rapture". Stafford Post. p. 31. Retrieved 23 March 2025– via Newspapers.com.
10. McGowan, Chris; Pessanha, Ricardo (1998). The Brazilian sound: samba, bossa nova, and the popular music of Brazil. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 109. ISBN   978-1-56639-544-1.
11. Grasse 2020, p. 69.

Bibliography

Books

• 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). ISBN   978-65-5691-002-4.
• Grasse, Jonathon (2020). Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges's The Corner Club. 33 1/3 Brazil. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN   978-1-5013-4684-2.

Documents

• Nunes, Thais dos Guimarães Alvim (1 November 2005). A sonoridade especifica do Clube da Esquina (Master of Music thesis) (in Brazilian Portuguese). Campinas, SP: Universidade Estadual de Campinas. doi: 10.47749/t/unicamp.2005.362171 . Retrieved 5 February 2024.