A nearly flawless collection of songs, all original except for Isabel (Bebel) which is a giddy testament to the groups apprentice-like relationship to master João Gilberto. The record starts out pretty gently. Fala Tamborim is an original samba that sounds like it would fit in that great tradition in any decade from the 1930s on, and Ladeira Da Praça bridges these commune-dwelling bohemians to the malandro cool of another era. The first appearance of electric instruments comes in the third tune, Eu Sou O Caso Deles. A pleasant acoustic instrumental works as a prelude to Gilberto’s aforementioned lullaby to his daughter, recorded for his (greatest) album a year earlier. Here the Baianos give it a kind of choro treatment before launching into a triumphant electric interpretation that could almost be early Wishbone Ash without the bombast.