Uma Outra Estação

Uma Outra Estação
Studio album by Legião Urbana
Released	July 1997
Recorded	AR Records, Rio de Janeiro City 1996/1997
Genre	Alternative rock, art rock
Length	60:23
Label	EMI
Producer	Legião Urbana and Tom Capone
Legião Urbana chronology
A Tempestade, ou O Livro dos Dias (1996) Uma Outra Estação (1997) Mais do Mesmo (1998)

Uma Outra Estação (Portuguese for Yet Another Season) is the eighth and last studio album by Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana. Released in July 1997, one year after Renato Russo's death, it sold more than 250,000 copies and received a Platinum Certification by ABPD.^[1]

History

Uma Outra Estação was recorded at the carioca studio AR Records between January and June 1996, and had its production completed c. 1997. Its songs are mostly outtakes that were scheduled to appear on the previous album A Tempestade, ou O Livro dos Dias, originally planned to be a double-disc album. However, EMI-Odeon denied the proposal, and the albums were split on two.

Contrasting with the melancholy and depression of A Tempestade, ou O Livro dos Dias, Uma Outra Estação has happier and more upbeat songs. The first track of the album, "Riding Song", is comprised mainly by excerpts of interviews of Legião Urbana's members, having only two verses, written by Dado Villa-Lobos: "Eu já sei o que vou ser/Ser quando crescer" ("I already know what I want to be/Want to be when I grow up"). Former Legião Urbana member Renato Rocha did a special appearance in this track by playing the electric bass.

"As Flores do Mal" shares its title with Charles Baudelaire's homonymous poetry book, and was the main single of the album. "La Maison Dieu" speaks about the atrocities committed during the military dictatorship period of Brazil. It was written in 1993 and it was originally scheduled to appear on O Descobrimento do Brasil, but Renato Russo decided not to release it back then, since Brazil still held resentment by the dictatorship years.

Some of the album's songs were written by Renato Russo during his "Trovador Solitário" ("Lonely Troubadour") phase, such as "Dado Viciado" and "Mariane", written in honor of an ex-girlfriend of his.

Only three tracks of the album had not their melody composed by Legião Urbana: "Schubert Ländler" (a cover of a Franz Schubert piece), "High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" (an instrumental cover of Ned Washington's and Dimitri Tiomkin's "The Ballad of High Noon") and "Travessia do Eixão". "Travessia do Eixão" counted with the participation of Os Paralamas do Sucesso bassist Bi Ribeiro.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Renato Russo (except where noted), all music composed by Legião Urbana (except where noted).

Trivia

• "Clarisse" is based on the life of Christiane F., and Renato Russo himself decided to not include it on A Tempestade, ou O Livro dos Dias, for he considered it to be too sad and depressing.
• The song "Dado Viciado" was written for a cousin of Russo, who suffered from drug dependence. It would be originally included on the unsuccessful double-disc album "Mitologia e Intuição" (that generated the separate albums Dois and Que País É Este), but Russo decided to release it later, in order to avoid confusion with Dado Villa-Lobos.
• The song "Marcianos Invadem a Terra" was written during the Aborto Elétrico years, and Capital Inicial vocalist Dinho Ouro Preto previously performed it on his eponymous solo album, in 1995.

Personnel

Legião Urbana

• Renato Russo — vocals, keyboards, classical guitar, bass
• Dado Villa-Lobos — electric guitar, classical guitar, bass, craviola, harmonica, dobro, mandolin, percussion, vocals
• Marcelo Bonfá — drums, ocarina, percussion, vocals

Additional personnel

• Carlos Trilha — keyboards, piano, Hammond organ, programming
• Renato Rocha — electric bass in "Riding Song"
• Tom Capone — lead guitar in "La Maison Dieu", slide guitar in "Depois das Seis", percussion and vocals in "Travessia do Eixão"
• Bi Ribeiro — acoustic bass guitar in "Travessia do Eixão"

References