Personnel includes: Milton Nascimento (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano), Chico Buarque, Elis Regina (vocals), Flavio Venturini (vocals, piano, organ), Lo Borges (vocals, electric guitar), Tonhino Horta (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, bass, drums), Joao Donato (trombone, piano), Danilo Caymmi (flute), Paulo Jobim (flute, acoustic guitar), Mauricio Einhorn (harmonica), Marcello (violin), Wagner Tiso (piano, keyboards), Nelson Angelo (acoustic guitar, background vocals), Pato Roves (acoustic & electric guitars, bombo leguero), Pipo Spera (charango, zampona, tambourine), Beto Guedes (mandolin), Eduardo Marquez (bass), Novelli (bass, bombo leguero, background vocals), Nene (percussion).
Engineers: Roberto De Castro, Dacy Rodrigues, Toninho Silva.
Recorded at EMI-Odeon Studios, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in 1978. Originally released as 2 separate LPs.
In this Abbey Road remastering, the double-CD Clube Da Esquina 2 evidences details unsuspected in the original vinyl, which is from 1978. The last album recorded for EMI finished the job begun with Clube Da Esquina, crystallizing a group of friends/composers from the Minas Gerais state and a repertoire of tender classics that deeply touched the Brazilian soul. "Nascente," "O Que Foi Feito Devera" (shared by Milton Nascimento with the pungent vocals of Elis Regina), "Tanto," "Mistérios" (with Joyce's violao), "Maria, Maria," and "Que Bom Amigo" are testimonies of a certain period of Brazil's history told with expressiveness and passion. ~ Alvaro Neder minimize