Transa

1. You Don't Know Me

2. Nine Out of Ten

3. Triste Bahia

4. It's a Long Way

5. Mora Na Filosofia

6. Neolithic Man

7. Nostalgia (That's What Rock'n Roll Is All About)

Transa,Caetano Veloso,Polygram Brazil,Brazil,Int'l & World Music,MPB

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Average customer rating: That's what saudade is all about Sublime sublime sublime sublime sublime sublime sublime Overrated Caetano Album Caetano Veloso, a genius... Brilliant Brazillian Rock

Transa Caetano Veloso Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Latin Music | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Caetano Veloso (Tropicália) Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue) Tropicália 2 Caetano Veloso (1969) Construcao ASIN: B00000GAC1 Release Date: 1998-03-25

Tracks:

1. You Don't Know Me
2. Nine Out of Ten
3. Triste Bahia
4. It's a Long Way
5. Mora Na Filosofia
6. Neolithic Man
7. Nostalgia (That's What Rock'n Roll Is All About)

Album Details

Reissue of the 1972 Recording by the Master of 'musica Popular Brasileira', One of his First Acts after Returning from a Period of Political Exile in the UK. Features a Cut Written with the Help of the Poet Greg=rio De Mattos, 'triste Bahia', plus Six More Mostly Sung in English.

Customer Reviews:

That's what saudade is all about.......2006-12-10

Saudade meaning longing in Portuguese,it must have invaded Caetano while creating this album.He was about to return to Brazil from exile when he embarked in this project.Eventually a cult disc and not a commercially succesful LP,TRANSA(making love)has its ups and downs.The English language tracks are a mixed bag while the Portuguese language songs are definite hits.Mora na Filosofia is my favorite.Not the best work of Veloso,but not the worst either.

Sublime sublime sublime sublime sublime sublime sublime.......2006-03-19

This record is a masterpiece of tropicalia music. The Context: The tropicalia poet has been sent into exile in London by the forces of repression and artistic control in Brasil.

London, 1970: at the height of hippie culture. Surrounded by the sounds of 1960's British rock, the harsh noise of the English language, with the warmth of tropical Brasil and the soft Portuguese language only dreams and memories in a primitive, neolithic, rock-dominated nightmare of exile. He wakes up in the morning, singing an old Beatles song. It is a long way back to his homeland.

At home, in Brasil, the Poet is a star. In England he is a just a long-haired South American man with a guitar and a funny accent. He hears his voice among others... just a common man. His presence in London goes unnoticed. ... "You don't know me..." he says and "You won't see me." He feels anonymous and the feeling pervades these songs.

He has no idea when or if he will ever be allowed to return to his homeland. He might as well learn to play rock chords and sing in English. But it is awkward. He cannot take the hippies or the rock-&-rollers completely serious. He is an outsider to their ideas and life style. He mocks them: "You sing about waking up in the morning but your never up before noon!"

And he cannot escape his memory and his language. Bits of Portuguese surface up from his subconscious, even as he struggles to sing and write in this new, rhyme-less language. Verses in Portuguese force themselves into his English songs. The sound of cuicas and bossa nova chords intervene, even as he tries to play his guitar in the English style. But the sounds of Brasil, and the sounds of Portuguese words, come across as hallucinations, chunks of dream, trance-inducing (trance, a play on words on the title "transa", which is itself a word full of sexual, sensuous overtones).

The Poet goes into the streets of London. He walks down the street and hears a tropical sound: but it is just reggae, not the samba and bossa nova sound of his home land. He remembers a lesson from his days as a school boy, another poet 300 years his elder, Gregorio de Mattos, whose outrageous art earned him the nickname "Hell Mouth" and earned him an exile in Angola. "Triste Bahia" becomes a sort of seance, a dialogue of exiled poet to exiled poet, across the cosmos and the centuries, a communion of language and rhythms that evoke a homeland, Bahia, from which they have both been expelled.

So much for the context, now for the music. It is amazing how dreamy it is while maintaining a bare, minimalist production. No lush tracks recorded one on top of the next. Just a man, a microphone, an acoustic guitar, some background percussionists, and a bassist. If you close your eyes it almost sounds like you are in the sound studio with Caetano as he plays. And how he plays! Every one of these tracks is an amazing typically tropicalia journey to the limits of the accepted, conventional norms of mainstream music. Each starts off soft and conventional, and then builds, builds, repeats, repeats, until finally you are overwhelmed with the absolute force of the noise coming out of your speakers. And then silence. And typically a return to the beginning again.

Overrated Caetano Album.......2005-10-24

I thought I was a Caetano fan until I bought Transa (I have Cualquer Coisa, which I like very much except for the Beatles cover tunes). And the reason I bought Transa was all the glowing amazon.com reviews. Though the music is good, the lyrics are very repititious and insipid (especially the English lyrics). I mean: "Nine out of ten movie stars make me cry...I'm alive" That's bad enough once, but repeated ten times more, it's painful. I want more Caetono Veloso, but which records I don't know.
Transa is almost unlistenable...but maybe I just have a low tolerance for repititious lyrics. Good luck!

Caetano Veloso, a genius..........2003-09-12

I became an addicted listener to Caetano Veloso when I was around 15. Twenty years have passed but my great genius of the Brazilian music still keeps visiting my home day after day and heartbeats assault me nervously whenever a new cd springs up or a show calls for me. To tell the truth, I still can't help feeling excited with Caetano Veloso, really.

The 'Transa' record goes back to 1972 and it's among those Top10 records of our lives which I would take to that desert island all of us have already been invited to visit. 'Transa' was recorded during the London phase of Caetano, when he and Gilberto Gil were forced to exile for political and dictatorial reasons. It is a superb record, full of a wide musical richness, where silence achieves a never-heard dimension. Marked by solitude and also by the fact that he was living in a foreign country, 'Transa' shows a Caetano with traces of musical psychedelism, geniously seasoned with musical flavours from Northeast of Bahia, his homeland. The father of Tropicalism gave birth to an album with a strong identity, strongly winking at the European sound (many of his songs are sung in English), with several references to rock (one of the flagships of Tropicalism), to the Beatles ('woke up this morning / singing an old, old Beatles song' , in 'It's a Long Way') , but still deeply Brazilian. It's a record made by an unknown singer in the London of that time, a record by someone that lived in a country that he didn't know and that wouldn't dare to expect his music being fully understood by those to whom he would open the door of his talent. Solitude and depression that he was facing at that time blurred some musical freshness, categorically evidenced in some of his Brazilian albums. There is no room for doubt when Caetano sings: 'You don't know me / bet you'll never get to know me / you don't know me at all.', in the opening track.
'Transa ' is a conceptual album about homesickness, about absence, about his anguish imprisoned in European walls, about nostalgia and its own marks engraved on music, on his Popular Brazilian music, on rock'n roll which Tropicalism merged with to expand and that definitely changed everything about the sound produced in Brazil. As Caetano sings in 'Nostalgia', the last track of the record: 'That's what rock'n roll is all about / I mean, that's what rock'n roll was all about.'
The best justice that we can do to 'Transa' is, obviously, listening to it from the bottom of our hearts.

Brilliant Brazillian Rock.......2003-06-26

Caetano también estuvo en el exilio. Y artísticamente parece que le hizo muy bien. No he escuchado, hasta el momento, más material sobre aquél período pero "Transa" es sin duda una joya. Dentro de su buenas canciones, para mí destacan dos que son representativas: "You Don't Know Me" y "Mora na filosofia". La primera, como me dijo un amigo, "parece Lou Reed". Es rock tradicional británico setentero, pero con la cadencia del samba y un aura melancólica que es la que acompaña al resto del álbum. El segundo tema en cuestión es casi épico, largo, bien logrado, triste y único. En este disco, a diferencia de varios otros de la discografía de Caetano, se presenan pocos temas pero largos, con secciones instrumentales prolongadas. Sin recargos, simple, directo, improvisado y complejo a la vez. "Transa" es una obra maestra que sigue la línea comenzada por el mismo Caetano y seguida por Os Mutantes.

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Transa Caetano Veloso Manufacturer: Polygram Brazil ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004SBP5 Release Date: 1997-04-01

Tracks:

1. You Don't Know Me
2. Nine Out of Ten
3. Triste Bahia
4. It's a Long Way
5. Mora Na Filosofia
6. Neolithic Man
7. Nostalgia (That's What Rock'n Roll Is All About)

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Edson Frederico E a Transa Edson Frederico Manufacturer: Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000066O06 Release Date: 2002-06-26

Tracks:

1. Tava Mais Nao Tava
2. O Gas
3. Ginga, Gira Gire
4. Garota De Copacabana
5. Babuino
6. Ligia
7. Bobeira
8. Sacode Carola
9. Sambane
10. Multidao
11. Peteca Na Mao Da Menina
12. Tema De Heloisa

Average customer rating: Ministry Mag NU Review Could be much better. Some Wannabe Songs

Exposure, Pt. 3 Transa Manufacturer: Hook Recordings UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005OM66 Release Date: 2001-10-02

Tracks:

1. Queller - Lysa Oldhams/CL McSpadden
2. Mach 7 - CL McSpadden
3. Rotation - Transa
4. Retrode - Cascade
5. House Of God - Chris Cowie
6. Black And White (Chris Cowie Remix) - Frankie Bones
7. Phuturefunk - DJ 19
8. Driven Innocence - Nygel Reiss
9. Depths Of Time - Jacob & Mendez
10. Jack You Up (Bladerunnerz Remix) - DJ Asle
11. Reaktor - Chris Cowie
12. Hi Energy - Transa

Customer Reviews:

Ministry Mag.......2004-02-15

The follow up to the successful Exposure One, this CD takes the listner on a journey further into the world of trance. A stunning collection of music featuring exclusive tracks from the likes of Americas most successful DJ Christopher Lawrence, 808 State and SPX.

Opening with the deep, dark and almost tribal sounds of Dawntreader's Overland, Exposure II pushes the boundries of sound and production to new levels of excellence, and is a welcome and urgently needed antidote to the current craze of pop and eurotrance.

Invader from the pioneers of techno, 808 State, is remixed by Vegas Soul, and delivers a solid slab of quality techno mastery for your listening pleasure. This is trance at its best, illustrated by the fact that many of the tunes included found high favour with such idols as Sasha, John Digweed, Danny Tenaglia, Seb Fontaine and Danny Howells.

Exposure II provides an insight into the powerfull and emotion-filled music that Hook Recordings and Bellboy Records are renouned for producing, showcasing the unadulterated quality that they inject into their releases. P.Statkus

NU Review.......2004-02-15

You've read the reports; Middle America - namely all those scary states towards the centre - has caught the rave bug. Symptoms of the affliction include a fondness of trance music, habitual 'rolling' on school days, the waving around of glow sticks and of course uncontrollable cravings for Tootsie Pops. Exposure II provides an insight into the US trance sound, which for the most part is a darker, more moody product than most of the cheerier stuff shipped out of Europe. Purveyor of new school, Christopher Lawrence gives us his monstrous Rush Hour and Cruise Control. Other tracks of note include a nice Vegas Soul remix of 808 State's Invader as well as the punchy Way U Like It, courtesy of the man who introduced raving to Americans in the first place, Mr Frankie Bones, take a bow. Just try not to fall over. AL

Could be much better. Some Wannabe Songs.......2002-04-05

With "Wannabe songs," I mean those songs which contain unrealistic theme, such as here "In Search for God," and the songs that entail flat lyrics, tunes, bass like popular eurotrance songs. If I were Transa I would have deleted these songs:

5.  Chris Cowie  House Of God      
6.  Frankie Bones  Black & White [Chris Cowie remix]      
7.  DJ 19  Phuturefunk  
9. Jacob & Mendez  Depths Of Time  
10.  DJ Asle  Jack You Up [Bladerunnerz remix]
-The should-be-deleted tracks will hinder your dancing, do not cohere with the rest, i.e., you will skip these songs.

The rest of the songs are very good; very hard-deep-pressing-down beats. If you like the "very good" songs played in this CD, don't by this. Buy singles or LPs instead and mix them yourself or let somebody else mix them. Actually I have the "very good" songs from this album, and I have selected harder and more deep songs to mix them with. My dj liked it, and so should you. Buy the singles, LPs instead.

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Wicked Transa Manufacturer: SANTEROS RECORDS ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD West Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000TD0FEY

Product Description

VERY RARE ALBUM CHICANO RAP FROM WICKED OF BROWNSIDE. 3RD SOLO ALBUM. TRACKLISTING: 1. ROLL WITH US 2. NO BULLSHI**IN - FEAT MORENO 3. HOLDING IT DOWN 4. JUCI PUSSI 5. IT AINT EAZY 6. PICHES PE;PNES

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Super Transa Nacional Various Artists Manufacturer: Musicrama Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005YLKA Release Date: 1999-03-23

Tracks:

1. Fora da Lei - Ed Motta
2. Quero Te Encontrar - Claudinho & Buchecha
3. Proibida Pra Mim (Grazon) - Charlie Brown Jr., Charlie Brown Jr.
4. Nayambing Blues (Trem Do Amor) - Sine Calmon,
5. Palpite - Vanessa Rangel
6. Gostava Tanto de Voc
7. Capitde Inda - Os Paralamas
8. Sonho de Uman Noite de Ver- Milton Guedes
9. Pega Leve
10. Fla Do Amor

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Transa Reggae Various Artists Manufacturer: Brazilian Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Latin Music | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009SPZT4 Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

1. Mama Africa
2. Sai Tristeza
3. Skancarando Tudo - Afrodizia
4. Mistura Dos Povos - Afrojah
5. Minha Paz
6. Maracutaia
7. Tocha
8. BatacotAfrodizia
9. Fogueira - Afrojah
10. Yojahy
11. Rio Sagrado
12. Lenha
13. Bandeira Branca - Afrodizia
14. O Homem TambChora - Afrojah
15. Velhos Tempos

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Iracema Uma Transa Amzonica ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KLQA8K Release Date: 2006-11-28

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Transa Caetano Veloso ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A2PDKU Release Date: 2003-12-02

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Exposure, Pt. 3 Transa Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000DEO7N Release Date: 2001-09-17

Tracks:

1. Queller
2. Mach 7
3. Rotation - Transa
4. Retrode - Cascade
5. House of God - Chris Cowie
6. Black and White [Chris Cowie Mix] - Frankie Bones
7. Phuturefunk
8. Driven Innocence - Nygel Reiss
9. Depths of Time - Jacob & Mendez,
10. Jack You Up [Bladerrunner's Mix]
11. Reaktor - Chris Cowie
12. Hi Energy - Transa

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