[.ca] Personalidade (Brazil)

From Amazon.com:
Caetano Veloso has been a force in Brazilian pop music since the '60s, a singer-songwriter who combines gentle sonorities and pointed political messages with Bahia roots and light pop textures. Along with Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa, Veloso fueled the tropicalia movement that resulted, for a time, in exile to London, where he began to reach an international audience and provided a spark to the World Music movement. This 1987 compilation touches on many of Veloso's moods, from the delicately wistful "Chuvas de Verao" to the cynical "Sampa" and the frothy animation of Gilberto Gil's "Soy Loco por Ti, America." His performance of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar" seems to restore the bossa nova to its folk roots, while "Podres Poderes" propels its message with an odd mix of off beats and distorted guitar. --Stuart Broomer

una bastante buena seleccion de caetano:
caetano en este cd nos muestra todas sus ricas dotes, que lo han convertido en un simbolo de la musica brasilera y latina. bunos temas, hermosa voz, areglos y cadencias justas en la interpretacion ideal para una primera aproximacion a este artista. como defecto, algunas canciones que uno creeria que no deben estar en una seleccion tan limitada en nro. sampa, eclipse oculto,menino de rio,cosa mais linda, etc valen por si solos tener el cd para un disfrute intenso, Otros temas, lo muestran lejos del de este enorme canrautor lejos

On my all time top ten list.:
Caetano's voice is so warm his mouth would melt butter. You don't have to know Portuguese to understand the words, feel the sensuality or experience the joy. A mysteriously melodius whistle in "O Leaozinho" echos back to my childhood when happiness was not complicated.

• Beleza Pura
• Coisa Mais Linda
• O Quereres
• O Leãozinho
• Muito
• Chuvas de Verão
• Lua E Estrela
• Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar
• Menino Do Rio
• Sampa
• Podres Poderes
• Soy Loco Por Ti, América
• Superbacana
• Lua de São Jorge
• Lua, Lua, Lua, Lua
• Eclipse Oculto