Caetano Veloso - A Foreign Sound
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Artist: Caetano VelosoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- The Carioca
- So In Love
- I Only Have Eyes For You
- Always
- Come As You Are
- Feelings
- Love For Sale
- The Man I Love
- Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
- Cry Me A River
- Jamaica Farewell
- Nature Boy
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- Manhattan
- Diana
- It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
- Love Me Tender
- Body And Soul
- If It's Magic
- Detached
- Something Good
- Blue Skies
Music reviews of A Foreign Sound
Music Review: The Return Of A Master
Rating: 5 Stars
Caetano Veloso has returned to us with an album of American popular music, and what may appear, at least to the cynics among us, as his attempt to cash on the recent fad of reviving old classics -like Rod Stewart or Cindy Lauper, or even Boz Scaggs with more felicitous results- it's another strong statement from one of the world's seminal artists in contemporary music.For those who may know little about Veloso, think of a composer on par with Stevie Wonder or Jimmy Webb, or of a poet of the stature of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. Think of an icon of popular music who happened to have been born in Brazil, rather than Liverpool or New York, and suffered from the massive disinterest that seems to fall on so many great ones who, by and large do not sing in English, in the English-speaking world.
For the ones among us who already worship Caetano, this is the kind of "return to form" which you can easily compare with Dylan's "Love & Theft." Another work from a mature artist hitting the stride of his bottomless talent.
What Caetano has done here is to dedicate a whole album from the canon of popular music, the majority of which are revered American gems like "Love Me Tender" or "Body and Soul," or even Cole Porter's gorgeous "Love For Sale," and chiseled them anew, back to their essences, taking away and revealing new edges until they can be solely themselves and, yet, completely his.
Caetano Veloso may be a romantic, but never a sentimental man, and where others would have settled for the comfort of counting on so many willing listeners who would gladly indulge him and be satisfied with any version that his voice could grace, he has pushed these songs to say all that they can say, stepping into them carefully, audaciously, but never intruding.
Listen to often derided "Feelings" which in the included version is nothing less than redeemed, or "The Man I Love" offering a sensitivity that many would argue a male singer could never attain. Of course, Veloso tribute to great American music cannot be expected to neglect Gershwin, Rogers or Berlin, but for Caetano it must also include Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley. It must be mentioned that Dylan's words -"It's Alright Ma' (I'm Only Bleeding)" is Veloso's choice- sound dark and just as relevant here as they did almost thirty years ago and, in Caetano's version, eerily accurate to describe these very times, almost prophetic. Even Kobain's "Come As You Are" is treated with the same deep respect -an understated gem by the Brazilian master.
Veloso's back, amorous and adventurous, faithful to these classics and unafraid of experimenting. As he sings so urgently in Dylan' song, "So don't fear if you hear / A foreign sound to your ear / It's alright, Ma, / I'm only sighing."
Description of A Foreign Sound
Asian pressing of the Latin star's 2004 English-language album, featuring 23 tracks including a cover of Bob Dylan's 'It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)', includes one exclusive bonus track 'Manhattan'. Universal.On this new studio CD, Brazilian composer/singer/author Caetano Veloso reinterprets classic and contemporary American pop songs. Veloso's feathery, Miles Davis-like, Portuguese-inflected vocals negotiate the English language with silken skill with a 28-piece orchestra led by his long-time arranger, cellist Jaques Morelenbaum--featuring Carlinhos Brown on percussion and Veloso's gifted son Moreno on guitar--over Afro-bossa rhythms and spacey, echoplexed synth/guitar strains. Veloso sings the melody straight on the stunning string-accompanied "Feelings," and on a brave a capella reading of Cole Porter's "Love For Sale." But the fun begins when he reggae-fies Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," sings "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" with boppish sax lines and offers a twangy take on Kurt Cobain's "Come as You Are." From Stevie Wonder's "If It's Magic" to Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" and Arto Lindsey's edgy "Detached," Veloso shows that he's a master of sonic subversion. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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