Um gôsto de Sol

A Taste of Sun is one of those songs that sticks to your body from the first chord. It's not just the melody that captivates, but that blend of light and shadow that Milton Nascimento achieves with his falsetto, as if the sun itself were singing between passing clouds. The track unfolds with a cadence that seems to breathe: it's not a song that drags you along, but one that invites you to walk to its rhythm, as if each note were a step on the sand of Piratininga. What's most curious is how the arrangement, with those overlapping choirs like waves, gives it an almost choral dimension without ever losing the intimacy of a dialogue.

It was recorded in November 1971 in two places that made all the difference: first at Praia de Piratininga, where the wind and sea must have slipped between the microphones, and later at the Estúdios Odeon in Rio, where the sound became more polished yet retained that freshness of a live recording. It wasn't just any album: Clube da Esquina was born in the midst of Brazil's military dictatorship, and though it's not an album of explicit protest, it carries that tension in the air, as if every chord were a sigh of freedom. Milton and Lô Borges crafted it among friends, almost as an experiment, and it ended up being Lô's debut and Milton's fifth. The song itself lasts 4:20, but within that time lie centuries of stories: friendship, the sun burning the skin, the melancholy dissolving into harmony.