Caetano Veloso S and D

Anyway - HELP ME I CAN"T STOP LISTENING TO CAETANO VELOSO

I MUST KNOW IF ANYONE BOUGHT THE BOXSET ???

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/v/veloso_caet_caetanove_101b.jpg

"Canto do Povo de um Lugar" from Jóia just keeps being the best piece of music I've ever heard. The cover of "Help" on the same album and "Tudo tudo tudo" are also fairly spectacular. Probably the only musician I venerate (I usually find that practice fucking ridiculous).

Oh the last two tracks from Jóia are also brilliant. I really can't talk about Caetano enough.

"Ce" reminds me in spirit of Gainsbourg's "Melody Nelson" record. Same grotty guitars (albeit much better produced)and similar vocal stylings.

I love how Caetano's vocal gets thinner. There is real pathos in some of Ce, like minhas lágrimas, hearing the same man you've heard as a carefree youth all these years in his classic records starting to be somewhat damaged and aged.

Search for the three minutes of cutesy happiness that is Um Canto de Afoxé!

About Todo Caetano — I don't have the box set itself, but I've purchased some individual discs from it on Ebay. The mini-LP style repackaging is nice; some of the discs are remixed/remastered in a way that is usually quite sumptuous but tends to remove the bite from the drums (maybe a compression issue?), especially on the first (1967) and second (1969) eponymous albums. The '67 album also has a couple of tracks out of order.

I would search Muitos Carnivas (jolly & festive), Muito (quiet and pacifying) and of course the great Tropicalia: Panis et Circensis. The compilation I have is Antologia 67/03, which has a lot of great music and non-chronilogical sequencing that doesn't make a whole lot of sense; not a bad sampler, anyway.

Wow I didn't even know of the existence of Ce.

Man, I really kinda hate Ce now. But Caetano continues being the most important solo artist in my life. Listening to Cavaleiro a lot recently. Pop legend, knows so much (and shows it) about Brazilian music. Also is so conscious as he plays with the male/female role with Brazilian numbers.

His singing here blows me away:

New Caetano album basically like a more mellow cê, assume it's the same band, very similar sound.

Only a few tracks on it I really like, A Base De Guantanamo probably the highlight for me, really repetitive mantra like chorus.

Oh and it's called Zii e zie: transambas.

Bit more Brazilian sounding, less based on rock rhythms, but the same production and reliance on electric guitar + electric bass & drum kit.

New Caetano album basically like a more mellow cê, assume it's the same band, very similar sound.

that sounds amazing!

A friend played Bicho, Veloso's stab at a late seventies Boz Scaggs record, over and over after a few glasses of wine. Marvelous.

yeah owned 'Bicho' for about 10 years or more, never felt "Boz Scaggs" but whatevs

awesome record

Have missed him live a number of times in W. DC, but am planning on seeing him Saturday night. "zii e zie" which does use the same musicians as Ce is only being released in the US now.

I really enjoyed the show. He and his young 3-piece band performed for 1 hour and 45 minutes. They did a mixture of old and new songs. The stage was set up with a big hangglider sitting behind the drummer backlit with soft yellow light. Behind that was a large screen--on some songs they showed black and white footage of the Brazilian coast and it was as if you were hangliding. Another song featured a Havana Cuba streetscape with all the old cars that are still there. For many songs the screen wasn't used. Veloso switched between using one of those circular hollow electric guitars and an acoustic one, or without a guitar. He danced and jumped about and did various theatrical gestures with his hand. He did his 1971 song about his sister Maria Bethania and a bossa/samba-style acoustic cover of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" that ended with a verse about all the lonely people from "Eleanor Rigby." For many songs the band rocked, especially the drummer, like a postpunk meets Fugazi ensemble, except Veloso was singing samba-rock melodies overtop. They had strobe lights flashing on some of the songs. There were lots of 40 something and up Brazilians in the crowd who got more lively for the older material--especially the encores.

I really wanted to go to this.

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Posted in music | tour dates on February 17, 2010
Caetano Veloso - US album release & tour dates (Terminal 5)

Brazilian guitar legend Caetano Veloso will comes to the US for six shows this April. The first will be at NYC's Terminal 5 on Thurday, April 8th. Tickets are on AmEx presale now. General sale starts Friday, February 19th at noon.

Caetano's 41st album, Zii e Zie, which came out internationally last year, and will get a US release on March 23rd through Nonesuch (the label that's putting out huge Caetano fan & collaborator David Byrne's new record with Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love). The album already won the 2009 Latin Grammy for Best Singer-Songwriter Album. Tracks from Zii e Zie are streaming here. All tour dates, videos, and album info and art are below...

"Zii e Zie" tracklist
1 Perdeu (Lost)
2 Sem Cais (No Dock)
3 Por Quem? (For Whom?)
4 Lobão Tem Razão (Lobão Is Right)s
5 A Cor Amarela (The Color Yellow)
6 A Base de Guantánamo (Guantánamo Base)
7 Falso Leblon (False Leblon)
8 Incompatibilidade de Gênios (Incompatibility of Temperaments)
9 Tarado ni Você (Horny for You)
10 Menina da Ria (Girl from Ria)
11 Ingenuidade (Innocence)

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Caetano Veloso - Você é linda

Caetano Veloso - Sonhos

Caetano Veloso Billie Jean

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Caetano Veloso - 2010 Tour Dates
Mar 05 Buenos Aires - Argentina - Gran Rex
Mar 06 Buenos Aires - Argentina - Gran Rex
Mar 08 Assunção - Paraguai
Mar 10 Montevidéu - Uruguai - Estádio Centenário
Mar 13 Santigo - Chile - Teatro Caupolicán
Mar 15 Lima - Peru - Teatro San Augustín
Mar 19 Cidade do México - México - Auditório Nacional
Mar 22 Guadalajara - México - Teatro Diana
Apr 08 New York, NY - Terminal 5
Apr 10 Washington DC - Lisner Auditorim
Apr 12 Boston - Orpheum Theatre
Apr 15 Los Angeles - The Greek Theatre
Apr 17 San Francisco - Masonic
Apr 20 Miami - Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theatre

Oops, cut aand pasted too much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hENmZ8PePNc&feature=related

I definately need to add more Veloso to my collection. That was a really enjoyable show last night

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.

I don’t think you missed a Chicago gig Josh, looks like it was just an east coast and west coast Veloso tour

budo jeru, I have no qualms with english-speaking fans - but BAM was packed with Brazilians tho!!! And my larger point is – Transa became in the last 25 years something of a OK Computer for regular listeners, and becomes really boring to see people hyping it to the extreme while completely disregarding the rest of a huge catalog. And Cajuína is a hit! From a even bigger successful record, Cinema Transcendental (a hit about suicide and the loss of a son, but still, such a pretty song)

(the listeners who disregard everything but Transa in the post above are again, BRA listeners. most US/Europe/Japan fans love Caetano all around mostly)

it's a pet peeve of mine, sorry. it happens with other artists as well – people who only love Tábua de Esmeralda but not all Jorge Ben, or people who love Racional Vol1 but don't listen to Tim Maia. It's similar to someone saying they love Dub but can't listen to Reggae - gtfo!!!

right. i mean, i have basically never heard anyone talk about Transa so i don't even know what it would be like to have your experience. i have heard Cinema Transcendental many times and, while i like it, respectfully i don't think it comes close to Transa. but that's a bit like saying this or that painting doesn't come close to the Sistine Chapel or something (sorry if i'm inadvertently adding to the hype)

haha no worries. I love Transa, it's one of a kind, but it's just 1 part of Caetano

Cinema Transcendental punches above the weight for me in several songs – Cajuina, the title track, Lua de São Jorge. I heard this songs in the radio, it's not that fair, I do love them a lot. It's a poppier/breezier side to Caetano for sure. I associate it with a general type of light MPB tracks for the early 80s that, in a larger sense, became what people associate with MPB as a 'genre' for a long time

btw, he was touring recently a show playing Transa in full again – so there's some hope he does that show here as well (but with a diff band – you almost need a hardcore/grind drummer for a track like Neolithic Man! true freak folk <3)