Recorded in March, 1983 at Estúdio Interson - São Paulo.

Remastered by Lelo Nazario at Utopia Studio in São Paulo in February, 2012.

Cover - Odir Grecco

Recorded for the Lira Paulistana label, Pau Brasil’s début album already showed signs of its intention to develop an essentially Brazilian authorial repertory.

Nelson Ayres’ arrangement for ‘Na Baixa do Sapateiro’ – a classic samba by Ary Barroso – was the group’s pioneer attempt to create a powerful sense of Brazilianness and it is one of the arrangements that Pau Brasil uses to this day in master classes in order to illustrate the way the group creates collectively. 

‘Azas nos Ayres’ (Ayres / Rodrigues), the first composition specially written for the group, opens the album which also brings the original compositions ‘Jongo’ and ‘Frevo do Pastóchia’ by Paulo Bellinati, originally written for guitar and adapted for the quintet; and ‘Europa’ an emotional ballad by Roberto Sion that was written during the group’s first European tour, in 1982.