Chatting with AltaVista made me remember this amazing artist!

For decades this artist has been putting out music that touches me so deeply, I can not even put it into words right now!

I haven't played his music for ages now and I am just reminded by him by talking to Lisa and playing it while we talk....



Such beauty!

I remember when I bumped into him through his work with Gilberto Gil and Arto Lindsay... then a few years back his amazing song called Cucurrucucu Paloma was compiled on the Habla Con Ella (Talk To Her to you Americans) soundtrack.

There is no one that can put so much emotion in his voice and lyrics as Caetano!. If you never heard of him; check him out!

i love love love love love love love this mans voice...


simply from the Talk To Her Song.....

my grandmama (god rest her soul) said she knew the song from mexico and loved it.....

which of his works would you recommend shnookems?

sosgemini said:

LoL
IMPOSSIBLE! Almost...
This man released around 45 albums since the late 60's.

But one of my faves (like with Prince, it changes) is the self-titled album from 1971. Pay attention; he released three self-titled albums in a row.

Here, from amg



One look at the doleful expression that Caetano Veloso wears on the cover of his third self-titled album, from 1971, and it's clear that the listener is in for a bummer. It's a dead-eyed look that says, "Friend, sit down, have a drink, and listen to my weary tale." And a weary homesick tale it is, for the man who only a few years earlier had been one of the catalysts in a revolution that sent the Brazilian music world on the psychedelic Beatles-lovin' roller coaster of Tropicalia was now living in the U.K. in a government-imposed exile. Gone are the Day-Glo flashes of his earlier albums, replaced by the realism of a revolutionary whose dreams have been shuttered. If there was any doubt to the depths of his melancholy, Veloso clears it up right away with "A Little More Blue," reflecting on being thrown in jail and declaring that his exile is worse than his Brazilian imprisonment. Even more dismal may be the lovesick tribute to his sister, "Maria Bethânia," which plainly spells out his physical and emotional disconnection. It's not all so dismal, though; there are upbeat songs as well, like the acknowledged classic "London, London" and the lone Portuguese-sung track, "Asa Branca." There are Brazilian touches in the drums and Veloso's phrasing, but the album is more in the tradition of downer folk classics like Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and Tim Buckley's Happy Sad. If that seems like heavy company, then seek out this emotionally rich and complex work by an artist who doesn't merely stand on the shoulders of giants — he is one of the giants.

Gooey says; This album just overflows with the same in-born melancholy I posses, so it is like second skin to me.

Then again, so is the release Bicho (Beast) and that has another vibe; this man made more records than Prince and has gone through just as many changes musically. He is the South American Prince, in that respect.
[Edited 7/1/05 2:16am]