Caetano Veloso S and D

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/arts/music/10veloso.html Pareles review of the NY show. Sorry Boston, it seems tonight's Veloso show there may be cancelled.

I listened to Veloso's 1969 s/t album (the one with the white cover) again this morning. The middle section of this seems to slow down quite a bit, with the quasi-tango-ish acoustic numbers and the penultimate "Revolution 9" concrete-style track, but even those parts have been growing on me. The opening and closing tracks are obviously untouchable.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2011/04/20/brazilian-music-then-and-now#more

A live album from the Zii e Zie tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzKQP2Kukp8

Just noticed by the video above Odeio sounds like a DFA joint.

not really into his band at the mo :/

I kinda like them.

But I haven't gotten the import Zii e Zie tour
live cd or dvd I mentioned above

I'm continually amazed by the 'A Arte de...' comp. What a great introduction.

oh man "Sugarcane Fields Forever" is killing it

A new album. I haven't heard it yet.

http://www.afropop.org/wp/17436/caetano-veloso-abracaco-2/

Listened to half of it so far and I like that half. A mix of nice ballads and loud, guitar heavy numbers. The latter alternate between clangy post-punk playing and Nirvana-esque rawk.

it's fun! for ppl upthread who are tired of his band, this is with the same band :(

Ha. New stuff is not gorgeous Brazilian old-school in feel, but it retains some of that in the melodies

Caetano Veloso concludes the US leg of his Abracaco orld tour with the second of two consecutive nights at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House tonight and an intimate public conversation about art, music, film, and more with director Peter Sellars Saturday evening at the BAM Fisher Hillman Studio.

Fron Nonesuch website. Bet the Saturday night conversation will be interesting

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/27/arts/music/caetano-veloso-and-his-band-perform-at-bam.html?ref=arts

Discussion of his band, plus Arto Lindsey joined him for the encores at this show at BAM in NYC

Here's an excerpt of Ben Ratliff's review:

Now 72, Mr. Veloso has been working with this group, Banda Cê, since 2006, through three records and multiple tours. Its members — Mr. Callado, the brilliant guitarist Pedro Sa and the bassist and keyboardist Ricardo Dias Gomes — are all musicians a generation younger. They counteract his eminence. The sound and arrangements of the new songs are small and immediate, skeletal and unsentimental, like a garage band in miniature.

Mr. Veloso seems to crave critical distance, and the band is a new way to help him attain it. With Banda Cê, raw but articulate, he has little risk of coming across as a glib cultural elder statesman. The songs push and soothe and sometimes grate, grounded in old or new sounds, such as the maracatu-like rhythm of “O Império da Lei,” (“The Rule of Law”), inspired by the murders of environmental activists in the Amazon; a kind of long-form, electric-folk minimalism in “Um Comunista,” about the Brazilian Marxist Carlos Marighella; and variations on bossa nova, his aesthetic resting pulse.

The two-hour set’s references to the past tended toward the complicated and contrarian, too, ambiguous exercises in attraction and withdrawal, irony and rebellion. There were “Baby,” from the late ’60s, and “Você Não Entende Nada” (“You Don’t Understand Anything”) and “De Noite Na Cama” (“By Night in Bed”), from the early ’70s. (During that last one, he unbuttoned his shirt all the way, let it hang open an inch or so, then almost immediately began buttoning it up again.)

The risk, perhaps, of leaning so heavily on ambiguity is that Mr. Veloso is undercutting himself, not allowing himself more access to the beauty of some of his old work; he’s not only a provocateur, but also the writer of more single-purpose songs of love, celebration and memory. But he is concentrating on the new, both for its material and for its double-edged sentiment.

Was trying to find the Bicho album on Spotify last night without success. Maybe I typed it in wrong.

It's on Danish spotify, anyway. Cool album.

Listening to Bicho right now. I've always found it a bit underwhelming, too pretty for an afro-brazilian funk-album called Bicho, but wow, there are some hits on there! The stretch Two Naira Fifty Kobo - Gente - Olha O Menino is cool, and obviously the two final tracks - including Leaozinho, which I posted in the One Week thread last week - are incredible.

Listened to it on Youtube last night, as I still can't find it on US Spotify. Need to listen a few more times as I was doing other stuff while I had it on.

I wonder how that Veloso with theatre director Peter Sellars chat was the other night (mentioned upthread)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_K9j3fb8Es
is the section of the Olympic ceremony from last night with Veloso, Gil and Anitta.
I missed it when it was live, was it the very first thing or the very last.

Think it was towards the end.

Had me thinking that i'd turned over from the BBC News channel too late for a bit. But couldn't tell if all the population on the floor there were the teams or Brazilian dancers.

Ceremony's being reshown on BBC2 at the moment or just has been.

If BBC2 replay is anything to go by it's about 1/2 hour away from the end of the footage. That is if the timing that I'm getting on my Horizon box TV guide is right. I just caught it there.

BBC2 had a 10 minute studio commentary after the end of the Ceremony so about 20 minutes from teh end. Not that it's really that relevant unless you get some chance to watch that live again. & it's up on youtube as shown above.
There's a lot of it, with a major drum break in the middle. Seems to cover about 10 minutes end to end.

So Caetano Veloso released a new live album that features he and his sons called Ofertorio in May 2018 I now see. Sounded good on first listen

Who had the idea of ​​this family Ofertório ?

It's me ! After a concert with Moreno a few years ago, it became a dream to do it with my other two sons. I waited for Tom to grow up a bit with his new band. Then, I talked to Zeca, the only one of them who never made a scene or a studio. It is someone who does things seriously, who never engages lightly and his first answer was no. I did not talk to him again. He did it himself, a few months later: he had thought it over and wanted us to try. Tom and Moreno accepted immediately.

Why this title of Ofertório ?

Originally, it's the title of a 1997 song, which I sang once in public, in a church, for my mother's 90th birthday. I wrote the words as if it were she who said them, today, I sing them by addressing directly to my sons. I also picked up the strongest titles I wrote for each of my sons' mothers. The themes of family and friends are at the heart of our repertoire.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/caetano-veloso-dans-ma-famille,-la-musique-est-quelque-chose-de-sacre,n5715812.php&prev=search

Just to say that if this dude has to go into exile again on Sunday he can stay at my apartment no prob.

He's welcome at the next ILB FAP at the Royal Oak too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/opinion/caetano-veloso-brazil-bolsonaro.html?fbclid=IwAR2I4d09MA8Y3SsLqOft0Z64jMPu7teTvDNeS4dnfQfuLFFTOQtF59x7Hok

The editorial and his recent album are both worth checking out.

Just saw Caetano Veloso & his sons together onstage last night. A really beautiful sounding evening. While it didn’t have the edgier songs I saw him do in 2010 w/ a young band, last night was lilting melodies, rhythm, harmonies, and familial love and support. Caetano explaining how certain songs were inspired by his kids, wife, ex-wife, and mother. Plus how he’s an atheist but his kids are religious

It was pricey but worth it. At 76 He still has a great voice. It was touching and interesting to see him interact with his sons, who are all skilled musicians.

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/29/caetano-veloso-brazil-bolsonaro-so-confused-so-incompetent?

Just discovered this nice 2020 singer/ guitarist Veloso & clarinetist Ivan Sacerdote album of mostly quiet duet renditions from Veloso’s catalogue. Good for a rainy day. It just got nominated for a Latin Grammy

this is very nice

yup that's a good one

Chris Richards , Washington Post critic , just put this album with Veloso and Sacerdote in his top 15 for the year

His birthday yesterday! A playlist.

I don't think I've heard either of the 80s albums you mentioned, I'll have to check those out. I also have only ever heard one Maria Bethânia album, A Tua Presença, which I adore (plus Edu & Bethânia, also wonderful)—what of hers do you rate highly?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/how-caetano-veloso-revolutionized-brazils-sound-and-spirit

Recently found a nice used copy of Circulado, which I hadnt heard before. Article inspired me to put it on and spent all weekend listening to it, great stuff.

That was a good profile, there was a lot I didn't know (such as the fact that he started dating his long-time wife and manager when she was 13 o_O).

"A terceira margem do rio" is a great song from Circulado, what a lovely melody and chord progression (and vocal).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0lVCkynWY

His album last year, y'all

Listen to it.

"A terceira margem do rio" is a great song from Circulado, what a lovely melody and chord progression (and vocal).
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, February 14, 2022 9:33 PM (forty-nine minutes ago)

It's one of the greatest short stories ever from Brazil, if you ever have a chance to read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Bank_of_the_River_(short_story). Guimarães Rosa is the greatest.

love the butch morris cornet & arto guitar on circulado

Todays dollar bin Caetano CD find was Omaggio A Federico E Giulietta, a live Fellini tribute from the 90s I had no prior knowledge of. Currently kicking my ass on this warm summer night.

Half a dozen times in the liner essay he laments having vocal troubles on the night of the recording. Maybe I have a tin ear idk, but he still sounds pretty fucking good to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKgnI1q48Rc

It's during a phase I think Caetano is really reconnecting with standards as a whole, songs from his childhood radio memories.

A really great one from the same era is Fina Estampa https://www.discogs.com/release/2199404-Caetano-Veloso-Fina-Estampa

These would all be played in the radio when he was young. He discuss this a bit in his bio