Circense is a 1980 studio album recorded by the Brazilian composer and multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti

Egberto Gismonti

Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...

. All the album was elaborated under the concept of circus and its recording counts with some beloved Brazilian musicians of that period.

It was listed by Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

Brazil as one of the 100 best Brazilian albums in history.

Track listing

#	|Title	Songwriters	Length
1.	"Karatê"	Egberto Gismonti	4:59
2.	"Cego Aderaldo"	Egberto Gismonti	6:25
3.	"Mágico"	Egberto Gismonti	7:14
4.	"Palhaço"	Egberto Gismonti, Geraldo E. Carneiro	5:51
5.	"Tá boa, santa?"	Egberto Gismonti	5:54
6.	"Equilibrista"	Egberto Gismonti	8:13
7.	"Ciranda"	Egberto Gismonti	5:33
8.	"Mais que a paixão"	Egberto Gismonti, João Carlos Pádua	4:42

Personnel

• Egberto Gismonti
  Egberto Gismonti
  Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist.Gismonti began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple...
  
  : ten-string acoustic guitar, piano and vocals
• Mauro Senise: saxophone and flute)
• Luiz Alves: bass
• Robertinho Silva: percussion
• Silvio Mehry: piano
• Pery Reis: guitar
• Aleuda Malu: vocals and percussion
• Dulce Bressane: vocals
• Pepê Castro-Neves: vocals
• Benito Juarez: string orchestra conduction

Special guest:

• Lakshminarayana Shankar: violin (in "Cego Aderaldo")