Arrigo Barnabé ‎– Tubarões Voadores (1984, CD, Brazil)

Tracklist:
1. Tubarões Voadores (2:30)
2. Crotalus Terríficus (5:20)
3. Mística (3:49)
4. Neide Manicure Pedicure (5:30)
5. Canção Do Astronauta Perdido (4:24)
6. Kid Supérfluo, O Consumidor Implacável (2:51)
7. Papai Não Gostou (6:49)
8. Lenda (3:42)
9. A Europa Curvous-Se Ante O Brasil (2:40)
10. Mirante (2:22)

Musicians:
Arrigo Barnabé / vocals, piano, electric piano, synths, keyboards, vocoder (1,5)
With:
Vânia Bastos / vocals (2-5,7-10)
João Cruz / vocals (2)
Rita Lee / vocals (6)
Passoca / backing vocals (4,9)
Teodor Papageorgiov / backing vocals (4)
Tonho Penhasco / guitar (2,4,6,9), backing vocals (4,6)
Eduardo Gudin / acoustic guitar (10)
Bozo Barretti / Yamaha CP80 (2,4,7), keyboards (4,6,7), backing vocals (4,6,7,9), synths (6,7,10), tambourine (9)
Paulinho Da Viola / piano & backing vocals (2), vocals (9)
Terão / piano (3)
Lelo Nazario / Yamaha DX7 & Prophet V synths (5)
Claudio Leal Ferreira / piano & orchestral conductor (8)
Teco Cardoso / alto, soprano & baritone saxes (5)
Toninho Carrasqueira / flutes (3,5,8,10)
Sérgio Burgani / clarinet (3)
Salvador Mazano / oboe (3,8)
Felix Wagner / clarinet & vibes (5)
Drauzio Chagas / tuba (10)
Edgard B. Poças / programming (5,6)
Luis Lopes / programming (5,7,10)
Dino De Lucca / programming (10)
various / violin, viola, cello, horn, trumpet, flugelhorn & trombone (2,3,8,10)
Gilmar Jardim / orchestral conductor (3)
Jamil Maluf / orchestral conductor (10)
Otávio Fialho / bass (2,4,6,7,9), fretless bass (7), Linn drum (6)
Gabriel Bahlis / bass (3,8)
Duda Neves / drums, tambourine (9)
Paulo Barnabé / percussion (2), backing vocals (2,4), narrator (4), Linn drum (7), tambourine (9)
Osvaldinho Da Cuíca / percussion & tambourine (9)

After the long praising review for his debut album, I don't have many words to describe this. Following the great zeuhlesque concept album, obviously a masterpiece and one of my top 5 albums of all time, Clara Crocodilo, Arrigo returns with Tubarões Voadores 5 years later. And what about this one? I can't say it's better than the previous one. The direction changed but it's still genial as damn. The proposal of the album was introduce dodecaphonism, weird prog narrative, and other absurd techniques on popular and different music including 80s rock, ethereal, synthpop, MPB, samba, and more. The results are tracks even more inacessible to the common listener. Just like the first album, the whole band and the female vocals are pretty good and unusual. It's a must check to avant-garde fans, but I still would reccomend Clara Crocodilo at first (very different style though). (progarchives)