Promotional image of the LP reissue of the album 'Elogio da madness', by Belchior (1946 – 2017) Disclosure ? NEWS ? The LP reissue of Belchior's 11th album, “Elogio da madness”, recorded in July 1988 with musical production by Antonio Foguete and released that same year by the PolyGram record label, offers the artist's followers the opportunity to learn more in depth about a work that, Strictly speaking, it is usually worshiped only for the discography released by Antonio Carlos Belchior (October 26, 1946 – April 30, 2017) throughout the 1970s, the golden decade of the Ceará singer and composer born 80 years ago. None of the ten songs from the entirely original repertoire of the album “Elogio da Madness” stood out over time. Perhaps because the compositions were packaged in the electronic framework that characterized musical production in the 1980s, but which was not in tune with the soul of the artist's work. However, Belchior's critical vein pulsed strongly and with a certain acidity in the lyrics of songs such as “Balada de Madame Frigidaire”, “Kitsch metropolitanus” (Belchior and Jorge Mello, 1988) and “Os Profissionals” (Belchior, 1988), among others, in verses full of quotes and references that ranged from Bob Dylan to Martin Luther King Jr. (1949 – 1968), including the poet Álvares de Azevedo (1831 – 1852) and psychoanalyst Freud (1856 – 1939). From the São Paulo poet, Belchior borrowed the title of an 1853 anthology to name “Lira dos twenty anos”, the artist's partnership with Francisco Casaverde that opens side B of the LP reissued with smoky translucent smoked vinyl. Detail: the same pair of composers wrote the song that opens side A, “Amor de perdição”, whose title comes from the name of the book published in 1862 by another 19th century poet, the Portuguese Camilo Castelo Branco (1825 – 1890). With fellow countryman Graccho Silvio Braz Peixoto da Silva, known as Graco, the artist from Ceará signed no less than four of the ten songs on the album “Elogio da Madness”. The partners' compositions include “Tambor tantã”, “No grandest jazz”, “Recitanda” – a song whose lyrics quote verses from some of Belchior's biggest hits in the 1970s – and “Arte final”, also written by Jorge Mello. The album “Elogio da madness” was released a year after the 1987 album, “Melodrama”, which marked Belchior's return to the record company through which the singer had presented in 1976 the album that established him in Brazilian music, “Alucinação”, an album that turns 50 years old in 2026 with the most referential album in Belchior's phonographic work, a singer who always seemed tired of the weight of his own head, the engine of songs and albums that gave him guaranteed immortality in Brazilian music.