Spin (4/00, p.201) - "...[an] ornate mix of new-world strings and old-school percussion...featuring 'artistic direction' from original art-folkie Caetano Veloso..."
Q (4/00, p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Breathtaking from start to finish....her classically trained, serene contralto and 'chamber samba' style [achieves] astonishing results..."
Down Beat (8/00, pp.70-1) - 4.5 stars out of 5 - "...A musician, and not a diva, Rodrigues knows how to make a whisper as powerful as an aria."
Personnel includes: Virginia Rodrigues, Caetano Veloso, Ile Aiye (vocals); Celso Fonseca (guitar, calimba, tamboura, bells, lyre, bottles, background vocals); Mauro Senise (flute, bass clarinet); Ze Canuto (flute, alto saxophone); Dirceu Leitte (clarinet); Daniel Garcia (tenor saxophone); Henrique Band (baritone saxophone); Vikor Santos (trombone); Philip Doyle (horn); Ramiro Musotto (berimbau, calimba, percussion); Robertinho Silva (percussion); Adriana Maciel, Thiago Braga, Milton Guedes, Gabriela Azevedo, Gui Rodriquez, Bruno Levinson, Patricia Maranhao, Eduardo Prado, Nair Candia, Elisa Quieroz, Bettina Graziani, Evaline Hecker (background vocals).