Before Edu released this album in 1973, he tried to break the English speaking market by releasing his 'Sergio Mendes Presents Edu Lobo' album. This collection of his hits that he rebuilt and sung in English, was an opportunity for this market to experience an authentically new Brazilian sound that was the equal of anything out there. So self assured of his own talent Edu came back to Brazil and concentrated in making an album that would make a statement on the importance of free will. His own terms were his unique Nordeste sound and just mind-boggling great arranging talents that came from Brazil's folkloric and regional roots. He took what was becoming a generic mainstream jazz-influenced bossa nova sound and went beyond it displaying what he thought the pinnacle of post-bossa nova sound could be.