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. It was released on February 15, 1990, by now-defunct independent record label Wop-Bop Records and re-released in CD form in 2001 by another independent label, RDS. It was originally Fellini's last album, due to their break-up in the following year; however, they reunited in 2001 and released another album, ''

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''. After his absence from the previous album, Jair Marcos returned as the guitarist, thus having Fellini's original line-up once more. ''Amor Louco'' is characterized for the diminished "scuzzy" post-punk-esque instrumentation, instead adopting a more light-hearted style reminiscent of

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, '' bossa nova'' and MPB. It is also their first album to feature lyrics written in English, them being "Chico Buarque Song" and "Love Till the Morning". The track "LSD" narrates an experience frontman Cadão Volpato had when he used

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Track listing

Notes

* "Aeroporto" is an acoustic bonus track. * The CD re-release merges the tracks "É o Destino" and "Aeroporto" into one, thus making a single track with 5:58 minutes long and making "Aeroporto" a hidden bonus track.

Personnel

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— vocals,

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, keyboards * Jair Marcos — acoustic guitar, backing vocals * Ricardo Salvagni — bass, rhythm programming * Thomas Pappon — acoustic guitar, backing vocals, rhythm programming ; Additional personnel * Tancred Pappon —

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(on tracks 6, 9) * Karla Xavier — female backing vocals (on track 9) * R.H Jackson — rhythm programming (on track 7) ; Miscellaneous staff *Recorded from June to November 1989 at OBJ Studio (16 channels), São Paulo * Célia Saito — photography * Cadão Volpato — cover (drawing) * N artes — final art * R. H. Jackson and Fellini — production and mixing * Benoni Rubmaier — remastering (cd version) * Remastered in Y B studios * Alex Cecci — A & R * Adaptation and Photolithography — 23 design * 1989 end of the Berlin Wall

References

External links

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