Ah, "Lilac" ... Superlatives fail to describe this album. Just the title song "Lilas" has emerged immediately as a major classic of native directory Maceio, always present in his concerts as a highlight (see the lives of 1999 and 2011). With Nathan East on bass on "Infinito", the tone is set on the musical level of the whole. And "Esquinas" ... listening on a sun that never ceases to bed, languid, melancholy, "saudade" ... It will be superbly taken under the title "So you say" by Manhattan Transfer whose singer Janis Siegl had already sung in duet with Djavan to US TV for superb version of "Capim" (visible on youtube). The rand classics, one can add "Trance", "Miragem" or finally "Liberdade" apotheosis is Djavan one feels a state of grace (which is not really the case of the previous commentator, whose considerations for the less conservative (and I am being polite) on pop 80s say a lot about a certain openness of mind or the essence, the spirit of Brazil is precisely the opening). It may be noted that it is generally the first disc of Djavan almost detached from the direct influence of MPB: guest spot here more or less "bulky" (Gilberto Gil, Chico Buarque ...) to hold his hand and say, "that's my boy, we agree with what you do", a situation that still persists elsewhere in Brazil, as pointed so scathing the great Ed Motta ("As long as he will alive, we will be dead! "). Here, Djavan made entirely "his" music: and that is what his fans like over-all!
