| A Terceira Lâmina | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Zé Ramalho |
| Cover: | A Terceira Lâmina.jpg |
| Released: | 1981 |
| Recorded: | 1981 |
| Genre: | MPB |
| Length: | 35:15 43:46 (Remastered version) |
| Label: | Epic (CBS – Sony Music) |
| Producer: | Zé Ramalho and Mauro Motta |
| Prev Title: | A Peleja do Diabo com o Dono do Céu |
| Prev Year: | 1980 |
| Next Title: | Força Verde |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
A Terceira Lâmina is the fourth solo album by Brazilian musician Zé Ramalho. It was released in 1981 and it helped increase his popularity.[1] As its two predecessors, the album mixes Northeast Brazil and rock influences.[2]
The opening track, "Canção Agalopada", features soprano Maria Lúcia Godoy and was based on a poem by Ramalho which was featured in his 1977 book Apocalipse (Apocalypse), and which uses the cordel forms martelo agalopado and galope à beira-mar.[2] [3] From this same book, Ramalho developed the trilogy "Beira-Mar", "Beira-Mar – Capítulo II" and "Beira-Mar – Capítulo Final", which appear, respectively on the albums A Peleja do Diabo com o Dono do Céu (1979), A Força Verde (1982) and Eu Sou Todos Nós (1998).[4] [3]
In an 2020 analysis for his blog at G1, Mauro Ferreira called the album "incisive", but compared it unfavorably to Ramalho's two previous efforts.[5]
The title track, according to Ramalho, "talks about the third child, my third phase - and the view of the third World War".[6]
All music by Zé Ramalho.
Personnel per source.[5]