Loki? (album)
Loki? is the first solo album from Arnaldo Baptista, the keyboardist, bassist and singer of the Brazilian band Os Mutantes. It was released in 1974 after a supposed nervous breakdown and it is considered one of the best albums in the 1970s Brazilian music scene. The album expresses his angst towards the height of post-modern society, along with the suffocating aspect of modernity: pollution, superpopulation, loneliness, etc.
In 2007, it was ranked 34th by Rolling Stone Brazil on the list of the 100 Greatest Brazilian Albums of All Time.
The album cover, signed by Aldo Luiz, features two overlapping pictures of Baptista against a star-spangled background. He is shirtless and holding a pellet gun and a bullet belt. The image was taken by the porch of his house in the Serra da Cantareira region. The back cover has a picture of an angel statue he bought in a cemetery.
Personnel
- Arnaldo Baptista – piano, vocals, organ, clavinet, Moog synthesizer, twelve-string guitar
- Liminha – bass guitar
- Dinho Leme – drums
- Rogério Duprat – orchestral arrangements in "Uma Pessoa Só" and "Cê Tá Pensando que Eu Sou Loki?"
- Sergio Kaffa – bass guitar in "Desculpe"
- Rita Lee – backing vocal in "Não Estou Nem Aí" and "Vou Me Afundar na Lingerie"