Produced by Rodolfo Stroeter

Recorded and mixed at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in December,1993 by Jan Erik Kongshaug. Remastered by Lelo Nazario at Utopia Studio in São Paulo in February, 2012

Design - Red Herring Design / Marcílio Godoi

Bonus track: Recorded at estúdio Rack, Sao Paulo in October, 1992.

Babel was produced shortly after a group’s tour of Europe. “By the time we arrived in Norway, the album’s repertory had been pretty extensively tried and tested. Because we were already familiar with the studio, this album was recorded even more quickly than Metrópolis Tropical. Babel is practically all live; very little of it was patched up or made up in the studio”. Rodolfo Stroeter recalls.

Marlui Miranda’s participation increased markedly in this new effort. “With Marlui, who introduced indigenous music to Pau Brasil, this recording featured an even greater mix of different idioms. It really did become a babel of sorts”, remarks Lelo Nazario.

Author of the compositions ‘Olho d’Água’, ‘Uluri’ and the collective piece ‘Tocaia’, as well as the arrangement for ‘Kã Kã’ (the music of the Urubu-Kaapor indians), Marlui underscores the importance of Pau Brasil’s method of collective creation. The singer/songwriter gives credit to “everyone who participated in those arrangements, because that’s how the group worked on them: together”.