Milton Nascimento

""Milton Nascimento" was actually the artist's third album, following his 1967 debut and a 1968 set recorded in America by Creed Taylor for his fledgling CTI label ... In keeping with the style of MPB, one of the post-bossa nova idioms to arrive in Brazil, Milton Nascimento blended jazz, pop and rock textures ... The album [featured] all new material, as Nascimento had tapped into his stockpile of songs for the first two LPs. As such, it was timely, and his most soulful and intimate work to date. One track came from the pen of bossa nova pioneer Dori Caymmi, but the other songs were all written by Nascimento and his close circle of friends including Fernando Brant and Marcio Borges".

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