Documents from Gilberto Gil's Private Archive

PROGRAM GDE - NOVEMBER 'GO- KXPR Global Beat Recommended Albums Brazilian performer and composer Gilbert Gi! By Stete Milne Another 1989 recording seeing new life on cd is Gilberto Gil's Eternos Deus Mu Danca (WEA Latina/Tropical Storm). Actually, this album was only available as an im- port last vear. so Brazilian music fans should have an easier time finding it now. And it's worth the search. Gil is one of Brazil's most popular com- posers and performers, and for the past 25 veary or she has continu- ally forgedret on with his many recordings. His latest album (the title transiates as The Eternal God of Change" is vet more of his staving power with hook laden melodies, warm vocals and a vanerv of global rhythms from funk to samba to reagae.