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GAL COSTA: “Gal Costa” LP. Released 20th Feb 2026

Gal Costa is the first solo album by the Brazilian singer Gal Costa, released in 1969.

Considered one of the most representative records of the countercultural Tropicália movement, the album features songwriting by various artist associated with the movement, with whom Costa had previously worked with in the 1968 collaboration album Tropicália: ou Panis et Circencis. These include Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Torquato Neto.

The music in the album has been considered unprecedented. It represents a strong departure from the style of Domingo, her debut album recorded with Caetano Veloso, which featured a “set of airy, somewhat standard bossa nova tunes”. Writing for Brazilian edition of Rolling Stone, Marcus Petro considered that, despite incorporating new influences from Janis Joplin and James Brown, Costa’s music still retained strong bossa nova elements. The sound of Gal Costa has been called “truly psychedelic and very much of its time, but also full of subtlety, as befits the melodic complexity and harmonic freedom” of its songs.

Track listing
Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. “Não Identificado” Caetano Veloso 3:12
2. “Sebastiana” Rosil Cavalcanti 2:23
3. “Lost in the Paradise” Caetano Veloso 2:52
4. “Namorinho de Portão” Tom Zé 2:34
5. “Saudosismo” Caetano Veloso 3:10
6. “Se Você Pensa” Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos 3:15
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
7. “Vou Recomeçar” Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos 3:25
8. “Divino, Maravilhoso” Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil 4:13
9. “Que Pena (Ele Já Não Gosta Mais de Mim)” Jorge Ben 3:33
10. “Baby” Caetano Veloso 3:33
11. “A Coisa Mais Linda Que Existe” Gilberto Gil, Torquato Neto 4:00
12. “Deus é o Amor” Jorge Ben 3:05