Caetano Veloso S and D

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"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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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.

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.