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Volume Dois
Volume Dois
Studio album by Titãs
Released	9 October 1998
Recorded	1998
Genre	Alternative rock, pop rock, new wave, symphonic rock, acoustic rock, MPB
Length	54:06
Label	WEA
Producer	Liminha
Titãs chronology
Singles from Volume Dois
	"É Preciso Saber Viver"; Released: 1998;

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Review scores
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Allmusic	^[2]

Volume Dois (Volume Two) is the ninth studio album released by the Brazilian rock band Titãs. Following the success of the previous album, Acústico MTV, Volume Dois features unplugged arrangements of previously recorded Titãs' songs, along with some new ones,^[3] and features musicians from the São Paulo Municipal Symphony Orchestra.^[4] It is one of their most successful albums, having sold more than 1 million copies as of 2015.^[5]

Background and production

In the final performances of the Acústico MTV tour, Titãs already talked about a future studio album with more acoustic versions of their songs. They were even already performing "É Preciso Saber Viver" by the time.^[6]

By the time of the album release, members Tony Bellotto (acoustic and electric guitarist) and Paulo Miklos (vocalist and saxophonist) commented that the band did not want to give in to electronic sounds: "We are a stage band, we like to play. It doesn't make sense, in a numerous band, to wait for the computer sequence before coming in with the guitars. This happened around the times of Õ Blésq Blom (...) Acoustic is the valuing of melodies, the electronic 'thing' more disturbed us than helped us".^[7]

Vocalist and keyboardist Sérgio Britto labeled the album as a "complement" to Acústico MTV, and not simply a new acoustic effort, pointing also that songs became lighter, but not necessarily acoustic.^[8]

The recording sessions were temporarily paused when drummer Charles Gavin's girlfriend was kidnapped.^[9]

The hit "Sonífera Ilha" was chosen as the opening track for being "emblematic. Cheesy, trying to be pop, inventive", according to Bellotto.^[7]

When asked if "Caras Como Eu" was a song about feeling old, its author Bellotto replied:^[10]

No, it's natural, like, after so much time playing with Titãs, I'm already 38 and I have lots of children. It's natural that eventually you start thinking about this. You get older, you're no longer 18, and I thought a lot, when I was creating the song, of Titãs. We've been together for 16 years. It was different when we started, times have changed, we're all already different, but the spirit remains the same. The love we feel for our job remains the same. The song speaks a little about it. Now, of course time passes and you feel some changes, some limitations, and at the same time, also, the new discoveries and stuff. But the song talks a little about that, about getting older and realizing it.

Also asked it the song was a farewell one, he answered:^[10]

[...] It isn't, absolutely, a farewell. Much the contrary, it may even be a reverse album, like a restart, us exercising the ability to compose, to create music in a way adequate to what we're feeling, to the moment, to the age. It's not about writing a song because you're older or younger, but about saying what you mean to say. What you're thinking of life, having this freedom. We've always given ourselves this right. So, in this sense, it states a novelty like any other song of ours. I think a farewell wouldn't be a song. Our farewell will probably be a silent one, it won't be us doing songs.

Release and marketing

The album was introduced to the press in a press conference hosted at restaurant Terraço Itália, atop Edifício Itália.^[4]^[7] A promotional tour succeeded, with its shows divided into three parts: one electroacoustic, one acoustic and one more rock-oriented, containing old hits not used in the album.^[1] Reproducing the performance of their predecessor in 1997, it was elected by Folha de S.Paulo readers as the best album and show of 1998.^[11]^[12]

In a contest promoted at Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo, students were invited to create canvases inspired by the album, and the winner would have their work reproduced and displayed in stores to promote the new release.^[13]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Lead vocals	Length
1.	"Sonífera Ilha" (Sleepy Island)	Branco Mello, Marcelo Fromer, Tony Bellotto, Carlos Barmack and Ciro Pessoa	Paulo Miklos	2:50
2.	"Lugar Nenhum" (Nowhere)	Arnaldo Antunes, Charles Gavin, Fromer, Sérgio Britto and Bellotto	Mello	3:15
3.	"Sua Impossível Chance" (Your Impossible Chance)	Nando Reis	Reis	4:06
4.	"Desordem" (Disorder)	Britto, Fromer and Gavin	Britto	3:32
5.	"Não Vou Me Adaptar" (I Won't Adapt)	Antunes	Reis	3:41
6.	"Domingo" (Sunday)	Bellotto and Britto	Miklos	3:27
7.	"Amanhã Não Se Sabe" (Tomorrow it's not known)	Britto	Britto	3:08
8.	"Caras Como Eu" (Guys Like Me)	Bellotto	Mello	3:02
9.	"Senhora e Senhor" (Miss and Mister)	Antunes, Miklos and Fromer	Miklos	3:23
10.	"Era Uma Vez" (Once Upon a Time)	Fromer, Bellotto, Mello, Britto, Antunes	Mello	3:44
11.	"Miséria" (Misery)	Antunes, Britto and Miklos	Miklos and Britto	4:21
12.	"Insensível" (Insensitive)	Britto	Britto	3:26
13.	"Eu E Ela" (Me and Her)	Reis	Miklos	4:35
14.	"Toda Cor" (Every Color)	Fromer, Pessoa and Barmack	Mello	3:28
15.	"É Preciso Saber Viver" (It's Necessary to Know How to Live)	Roberto Carlos and Erasmo Carlos	Miklos	4:08
16.	"Senhor Delegado/Eu Não Aguento" (Mister Delegate/I Can't Stand It)	Antoninho Lopes, Jaú, Sérgio Boneka, Clover Over and Trambolhinho	Britto	2:36

Personnel

Titãs

Branco Mello - lead vocals on tracks 2, 8, 10 and 14, backing vocals
Charles Gavin - drums and percussion
Marcelo Fromer - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, backing vocals (credited, but does not sing)
Nando Reis - lead vocals on tracks 3 and 5, bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
Paulo Miklos - lead vocals on tracks 1, 6, 9, 11, 13 and 15, mandolin, banjo, backing vocals
Sérgio Britto - lead vocals on tracks 4, 7, 11, 12 and 16, keyboard, backing vocals
Tony Bellotto - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, twelve string guitar, slide guitar, backing vocals (credited, but does not sing)

Guest musicians

Liminha - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, twelve string guitar, banjo, tambura, electronic programming
Fat Family - vocals on track 15
Flávio Guimarães - harmonica on tracks 2 and 6
Jaques Morelenbaum - cello on track 14, string and Horn arrangements (except on tracks 1, 11 and 13)
Eumir Deodato - string and Horn arrangements on tracks 11 and 13
Marcelo Martins - tenor saxophone, flute, string and Horn arrangements on track 1
Ramiro Musotto - percussion on tracks 1, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14 and 16
William Magalhães - keyboard on track 7
Daniel Garcia - flute, tenor saxophone
Zé Canuto - flute, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
Eduardo Morelembaum - clarinet, bass clarinet
Philip Doyle - french horn
Henrique Band - baritone saxophone
Zé Carlos - tenor saxophone
Flavio Melo - flugelhorn, trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Vitor Santos - tenor trombone
Jessé Sadoc - trumpet, flugelhorn
Flavio Santos - trumpet
Altair Martins - trumpet, flugelhorn
Paulo Roberto Mendonça - trumpet
Gilberto de Oliveira - bass trombone
José Machado Ramad - tenor saxophone
Ismael de Oliveira - horn
Zdenek Swab - horn
Antonio Candido - horn
Giancarlo Pareschi (Spala), José Alves, Bernardo Bessler, Alfredo Vidal, Antonella Pareschi, Paschoal Perrota, Walter Hack, Vera Barreto, Paula Barreto, Michael Bessler, Ricardo Amado: violins
Marie Cristine Bessler, Frederick Stephany, Jesuina Passaroto, Jairo Diniz: violas
Alceu Reis, Yura Ranevsky, Marcus de Oliveira, Cassia Menezes, Marcio Malard: cellos