Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue)
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Artist: Caetano VelosoEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-07-26
Music Label: Polygram Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Little More Blue
- London, London
- Maria Bethania
- If You Hold a Stone
- Shoot Me Dead
- In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day
- Asa Branca
Music reviews of Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue)
Music Review: Classic
Rating: 5 Stars
If you notice a difference between this 1971 Veloso album and his 1968 debut, you are not imagining. That fresh clean boyish face has been replaced by a haggard, bearded one. Veloso had been in a dictators jailblock--god knows what happened to him there. He starts the album saying he "feels a little more blue." Yet the master handles all this with pathos, saying he still "looks for flying saucers in the sky."
Like Curtis Mayfiled and very few other superheros I can think of, you would be blind not to see the dignity and grace of Mr. Veloso in the face of brutallity. That does not mean that his misfortune did not produce a very different type of music than the celebratory, Sgt. Pepper striped work of his first album
The music here has all the strings and backup vocals any master composer can use on an album, but they are sad, muted, almost hiding; the genius has a gun at his head, and nothing can be the same. This is folk music--reflective, almost hesitent, trying to find a soft place, anywhere possible, when things have gone horribly wrong. Take Love and Nick Drake. Both worked in the folk genre. But if you listen to Forever Changes and then Five Leaves Left, the contrast glares. The same applies to the two Veloso albums.
Fortunately for him and us, Veloso came out of his nightmare with his soul in tact, and continued to make even better music into the 1990s and I'll bet you he is working on new miricles as I write. This is jazz tinged music that is as important as any work he did in the long ago dictatorship that was Brazil, and this should be checked out.
But while we wait, check this album out. As Veloso says here "if you hold the stone, hold it in your hand, if you feel the weight, you'll never be late to understand."
Description of Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue)
Often Referred to as "brazil's Unofficial Poet Laureate" and the "bob Dylan of Brazil", this Heavy-weight of Brazilian Music was also a Young Revolutionary who Used his Music to Protest Against Brazil's Oppressive Military Regime. This Protest Music, which Became Known as Tropicalia, First Earned Veloso a Stint in Jail, but by the Time this Dour Album was Released in 1971, it Had Placed Him in Exile in the UK. Veloso's Extreme Bitterness and Melancholy Can Be Heard on Every Groove of this Album, but Don't Let the Album's Gloomy Atmosphere Stop You from Buying It; It is Dripping with Some of the Best Moments of Saudade in the History of Brazilian Music.General CDs
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