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Um Banda Um is a studio album by Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, released in 1982. Initially intended for the international market, Gil had recorded some reggae-influenced material in New York. However, upon reviewing the material in Brazil, he was dissatisfied with the results and postponed the project. The album was ultimately recorded in Rio de Janeiro city between June and July 1982, with production handled by Liminha — who also produced Gil's previous album, Luar—and released by Warner. Despite the American rhythmic influence, at the time of its release Gil described the record as a search for “a universalist sense of Umbanda as a split from the closed cult of religions, whether Candomblé or Catholicism, both monist, each with its own truth; the necessary pantheism of Umbanda, a religion that is not one but ‘all’, mixing Kardecism, Catholicism. ... African polytheism.” The album includes some of Gil's most iconic songs, such as "Drão", "Andar com Fé", and "Esotérico", all of which are heavily influenced by reggae. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Um_Band...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
