Cabeça Dinossauro
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| Studio album by Titãs | ||||
| Released | June 1986 | |||
| Recorded | March - April 1986 at Estúdio Nas Nuvens, Rio de Janeiro | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, post-punk, new wave, funk rock | |||
| Length | 38:41 | |||
| Label | WEA | |||
| Producer | Liminha, Vitor Farias, Pena Schmidt | |||
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Cabeça Dinossauro (Portuguese for Dinosaur Head) is the third studio album by Brazilian rock band Titãs. It was released in June 1986.
Cabeça Dinossauro was the first Titãs album to be produced by Liminha, and the first of the band to receive a gold certification in December 1986. It was recorded and mixed in one month.
Vocalist Arnaldo Antunes and guitarist Tony Bellotto's arrest for drug possession in 1985; the "relative failure" of previous album Televisão; and the will by the band to take a heavier direction influenced the music on this album.
The album's front and back covers were taken from sketches by Leonardo da Vinci: "The Expression a howling Man" and "Grotesque Head", respectively. Both acetates were brought straight outta Louvre by a friend of vocalist and keyboardist Sérgio Britto's father. They replaced small reproductions the band had but could not use for the album due to low quality. He would say in 2006 that "the first 30,000 copies of the album were made in a mat and porous paper, much more expensive than the ordinary one. A gesture of generosity by André Midani, then president of Warner, which gave us total support before, during and after the recording sessions, complying with almost every of our requests."
the musical material for the album was ready before the band got into the studio. The first track to be recorded was the single "AA UU". The last one was "O Que".
The percussion in the title track was performed by Liminha. After several elaborated attempts, he improvised with the walls, the floor and the pillars of the studio, and the "trance" performance was approved by all. The vocals of "A Face do Destruidor" was recorded over the base played backwards. According to Britto, "when we recorded, we had to think that it would be listened to that way".
some of Bellotto's solos were played with the musician alternating between the guitar pick and a big ring he was using. that way, he could play and simultaneously obtain percussive effects from his instrument.
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