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Cd > Brazilian Music > Mpb - Brazilian Popular MusicCD > BRAZILIAN MUSIC > MPB - BRAZILIAN POPULAR MUSIC
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It's hard to describe just how overlooked Veloso is. I'm sure if he'd based himself in the English speaking world he would be side by side with the English speaking greats. Take this album, Livro. What you get is more ideas and passion in any one of the tracks than any Artic Monkeys or White Stripes or modern-day Neil Young. And boy can this man sing. Naturally. No indie squeal or r&b falseness. The bottom line is if you want to listen to music, real music, then Veloso is your man.
Bogdan Tiganov - author of The Wooden Tongue Speaks- Romanians: Contradictions & Realities
Bogdan Tiganov - author of The Wooden Tongue Speaks- Romanians: Contradictions & Realities
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Still has it!
31 Jan 2000
Format:Audio CD
I am not from Brazil, i am from NY but i love brazilian music and i am sort of an officinado to the people that know me. I love Caetano Veloso especially his older stuff. His musical career is as varied as a landscape, you can love him one second and not the next so do not judge the "music of caetano" by listening to one or two albums it is vast. If you dont have caetanos older albums and you just heard this but didn't like it, check out "Qualquer Coisa" or "Joia".
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Maybe his most beautiful album yet?
15 Jan 2000
Format:Audio CD
Okay, first the disclaimer: I am not Brazilian, I need a dictionary to read Portuguese, and my musical upbringing is more conducive to James Taylor than samba, bassa, tropicalia or mpb. None the less, I love good melody, voice and rhythm, and Caetano Veloso much more than fits the bill.
This may be Caetano's most beautiful album yet. It is a "mature" album -- maybe with too many string arrangments for people who love "Estrangeiro" or earlier albums -- but with beautiful vocals, stellar musical arranging and percussion beyond reproach. It is the work of an artist at the height of his powers and comfortable with his talent and status -- not unlike Duke Ellington later in his career.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
The sublimation of a legend
20 Mar 2003
Format:Audio CD
This is one of the finest CDs ever released. No wonder it won a Grammy Award; the sophistication of the lyrics, the bewitchering voice, the magic of the rythms, I just don't know which one struck me as more impressive. Yes, Caetano Veloso is a legend and one of the finest singers in the world; but this album is simply superlative, even to his standards. HIGHLY recommended.
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