Carrossel is the ninth studio album released by Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese.-Overview:Rock entered the Brazilian music scene in 1956, with the screening of the film The Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock", which would later be covered in Portuguese by Nora...

 band Skank

Skank (band)

Skank is a Brazilian rock/reggae band, begun in 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. , they had sold approximately 5,200,000 copies of their albums...

, the last in the "deconstruction trilogy" begun with Maquinarama

Maquinarama

Maquinarama is the fifth studio album released by Skank, in 2000.With Maquinarama, Skank began to move away from the reggae-tinged "party music" that had been a staple of the band for the first four albums...

 in which the group changed from ska

Ska

Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...

 towards a more rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

-oriented sound influenced by The Beatles

The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr...

 and Clube da Esquina

Clube da Esquina

Clube da Esquina was a Brazilian music artists collective, originating in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is also the name of a double album from 1972...

. Carrossel was the fifth best-selling album in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

 in 2006, peaking at second place.

Other than Samuel Rosa's usual songwriting partner Chico Amaral, there are contributions from Nando Reis

Nando Reis

Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and lead singer of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Os Infernais...

, Humberto Effe, César Maurício, Arnaldo Antunes

Arnaldo Antunes

Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...

 and Rodrigo Leão

Rodrigo Leão

Rodrigo Leão is a Portuguese musician and composer. He was born in Lisbon in 1964. He became known for his musical compositions and participation in Portuguese bands such as Madredeus and Sétima Legião....

.

The track "Trancoso" was written with Arnaldo Antunes at Trancoso beach

Trancoso, Bahia

Trancoso is a town in the municipality of Porto Seguro in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The region was the landing point of the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Alvares Cabral onto Brazil, on April 21, 1500. It was founded by Jesuit Priests on 1583, with the name São João Baptista dos Indios.Shaped as a...

.

The album's released singles are "Uma canção é pra isso", "Mil acasos" and "Seus passos".

Track listing

1. "Eu e a Felicidade" (Samuel Rosa
   Samuel Rosa
   Samuel Rosa de Alvarenga is lead singer and guitarist of Brazilian rock band Skank. He has a psychology degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais....
   
   /Nando Reis
   Nando Reis
   Nando Reis is a Brazilian musician and producer, best known as the former bassist and lead singer of Brazilian rock band Titãs and for his successful solo career, with his own band called Os Infernais...
   
   ) - 3:49
2. "Uma Canção é Pra Isso" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 3:51
3. "Até o Amor Virar Poeira" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 3:34
4. "O Som da Sua Voz" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 4:48
5. "Cara Nua" (Samuel Rosa/Humberto Effe)
6. "Mil Acasos" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 3:12
7. "Lugar" (Samuel Rosa/César Maurício) - 3:50
8. "Notícia" (Samuel Rosa/Humberto Effe)
9. "Garrafas" (Lelo Zaneti/Chico Amaral) - 4:08
10. "Panorâmica" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 4:31
11. "Balada para João e Joana" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 4:41
12. "Trancoso" (Samuel Rosa/Arnaldo Antunes
    Arnaldo Antunes
    Arnaldo Antunes , is a writer and composer from Brazil. He began as a member of the band Aguilar e Banda Performática in the late 1970s. For most of the 1980s he was a member of the rock band Titãs. After 1992 he had six solo albums. Since 1992 he has been an award winning poet, but he was first...
    
    )
13. "Antitelejornal" (Samuel Rosa/Rodrigo F. Leão) - 4:33
14. "Seus Passos" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 3:44
15. "O Homem Solitário" (Samuel Rosa/Chico Amaral) - 3:58