A Mão de Mao
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| Studio album by Metrô | ||||||||
| Released | 1987 | |||||||
| Genre | Experimental rock, new wave | |||||||
| Label | Epic Records | |||||||
| Producer | Luiz Carlos Maluly | |||||||
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A Mão de Mao (Portuguese for "Mao's Hand") is the second studio album by Brazilian new wave band Metrô, released in 1987 by Epic Records. It was the band's only album to feature Pedro d'Orey on vocals, replacing Virginie Boutaud who was fired the year prior.
By 1985 Metrô was one of the most successful Brazilian bands, extensively touring and performing in numerous variety shows of the time; however, then-vocalist Virginie Boutaud was growing exhausted from the band's convoluted touring schedule, and her bandmates planned to shift from the pop-influenced style of their previous album Olhar to a more "mature" and "daring" direction influenced by Cazuza, Legião Urbana and Titãs, who were some of the most influential Brazilian rock acts at the time. Numerous creative divergences and frictions led to a deterioration of the relations between Virginie and her bandmates, and she was eventually fired from the band in 1986.
Portuguese musician Pedro d'Orey, better known by his stage name Pedro Parq, was chosen as Virginie's replacement after the Metrô bandmembers listened to his work with Mler Ife Dada, of which he was one of its founding members – D'Orey recently had parted ways with the band at the time, and was living in São Paulo. With D'Orey, the band embraced a more experimental style nearly reminiscent of their earlier material as A Gota Suspensa, removing almost completely the synthpop elements proeminent in Metrô's previous album. The band initially planned to change its name from Metrô to Tristes Tigres ("Sad Tigers"), but their record label Epic did not allow them.
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