The Bahia-born vocalist, composer, and guitarist Caetano Veloso is one the prime architects of the Brazilian Tropicalia sound of the late '60s. That style blended favela samba rhythms and city bossa nova melodies with American rock and Jamaican reggae. Over the years, the Grammy Award-winning Veloso has refined Tropicalia with his hypnotic vocals and brilliant lyrics, as this live date from Rio in 1998 aurally illustrates. Fans of his last CD, Livro, will find the same sophisticated horn and string arrangements by Jacques Morelenbaum gracing the surging Afro-Brazilian beats. The 20 tracks represent the full spectrum of Veloso's music: from his playful take on the Miles Davis-Gil Evans rendition of the traditional song "Prenda Minha" to his bouncy update of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Meditação." Veloso also reprises the compositions of his tropical partners on Gilberto Gil's "Bem Devager" and "Drão" and Chico Buarque's "Carolina." Along with a zesty remake of "Mel," a hit by his sister Maria Bethania, and his own '70s favorite "Terra," Caetano Veloso shows that he is, indeed, the sound of Brazil. --Eugene Holley Jr.
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One of the Veloso's Best Albums. Sales Reached Over 1,000,000 Copies in Brazil. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Prenda Minha
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ASIN: B000023Z3S Release Date: 2000-07-25 |
Tracks:
- Jorge De Capadocia
- Prenda Minha
- Meditacao
- Terra
- Eclipse Oculto
- Texto 'Verdade Tropical'
- Bem Devagar
- Drao
- Saudosismo
- Carolina
- Sozinho
- Esse Cara
- Mel
- Onde O Rio E Mais Baiano
- Na Linha Do Equador
- Odara
- Nao Enche
- A Luz De Tieta
- Atras Da Verde-E-Rosa So Nao Vai Quem Ja Morreu
- Vida Boa
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The Bahia-born vocalist, composer, and guitarist Caetano Veloso is one the prime architects of the Brazilian Tropicalia sound of the late '60s. That style blended favela samba rhythms and city bossa nova melodies with American rock and Jamaican reggae. Over the years, the Grammy Award-winning Veloso has refined Tropicalia with his hypnotic vocals and brilliant lyrics, as this live date from Rio in 1998 aurally illustrates. Fans of his last CD, Livro, will find the same sophisticated horn and string arrangements by Jacques Morelenbaum gracing the surging Afro-Brazilian beats. The 20 tracks represent the full spectrum of Veloso's music: from his playful take on the Miles Davis-Gil Evans rendition of the traditional song "Prenda Minha" to his bouncy update of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Meditação." Veloso also reprises the compositions of his tropical partners on Gilberto Gil's "Bem Devager" and "Drão" and Chico Buarque's "Carolina." Along with a zesty remake of "Mel," a hit by his sister Maria Bethania, and his own '70s favorite "Terra," Caetano Veloso shows that he is, indeed, the sound of Brazil. --Eugene Holley Jr.Album Details
One of the Veloso's Best Albums. Sales Reached Over 1,000,000 Copies in Brazil.Customer Reviews:
Uno de los mejores que he escuchado de Caetano Veloso.......2006-02-26
Manuel Linares
www.manuel-linares.com
simply beautiful.......2004-04-24
Lovely.......2003-08-31
Best of the last years.......2002-09-10
El resto es una hora -por momentos demoledora- para disfrutar, sustentada en brillantes versiones como las de "Terra", "Eclipse Oculto" y "Mel".
Caetano, como hacía tiempo que venía demostrándolo, acá hace de un excelente maestro de ceremonias, apoyado por el gran Jack Morelembaum en el cello.
Very Good Start for a Not as Good Album.......2001-10-12
The CD named after the song I fell in love with was the first of a great sequence of albums that Caetano released throughout almost a decade. Followed "Estrangeiro" (1989), among other album, the masterpieces "Circuladô" (1991), "Circuladô Vivo" (1992), "Fina Estampa" (1994), "Fina Estampa ao Vivo" and "Livro" (1997) - the last winning "best album of the year" in the Latin Grammy Award. I bought all of these records and went to all his concerts during the decade that followed. The sequence of good albums was so amazing that I started to believe that their author was infallible; that whatever he produced was unquestionably good. And I don't think I was alone; during the 90s Caetano became a national, maybe even international, unanimity.
Nevertheless, the CD "Prenda Minha" (1999) came to reinforce the Brazilian popular saying that declares that "all unanimity is dumb". The album is not that bad, but Caetano raised our standards to such a level that we always expect his works to near the perfection. Were this record signed by other artist, maybe, I wouldn't be as critic.
This album has actually a very good beginning. I love the sequence composed by the first four songs. The CD opens with a version of the tune "Jorge da Capadócia" by Jorge Ben. The song starts smoothly and grows along with the introduction of more and more percussion instruments - it starts with hands clapping and progresses to a complete group of percussion. The second song appears after an incredible transition in which the intense sound of drums and timbales is replaced by an ensemble of brass instruments that opens the mellow tune of the title song "Prenda Minha". A not less impressive transition brings the beautiful "Meditação" (Meditation) - a composition by Tom Jobim and Newton Mendonça. The fourth song, "Terra" (Earth), is an excellent re-record - rich in a new arrangement (credited, as "Jorge da Capadócia", to all the band - all other arrangements are signed by Jaques Morelenbaun) and strong interpretation by Caetano, who is backed up by the versatile band under maestro Morelenbaun's command. But that's it. What comes after the fourth song does not tells me much. They are 14 more tunes. Most of them re-record of old successes, which bring little or no excitement to me, neither in the arrangement, nor on the lyrics.
When I got "Noites do Norte" (Nights of the North), the latest work of Veloso, the first authorial since "Livro", once again, I was disappointed.
I really like when Caetano shows us his experimental side, as he did in "Circuladô", "Livro" or "Estrangeiro", but I felt that this time he "lost the hand". For instance, that happens when he sings/recite the beautiful text by the Brazilian abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco, the title song "Noites do Norte". It's not the first time Veloso attempted to "sing" prose - he did it before successfully in "Circuladô Vivo" ("Americanos") and "Prenda Minha" ("Verdade Tropical"). All the bravura of the century old essay (1900) didn't help in this case - he should just have kept his original idea and put the excerpt in the insert of the CD.
The homage to Raul Seixas (precursor of Brazilian rock)"Rock'n'Raul" has a nice rock arrangement that brings to Caetano's MPB some contemporary rock and techno flavor. The rhymes of the lyrics, however, don't do it to me ("Esbórnia na Califórnia/Dias ruins em New Orleans/O grande mago em Chicago/.../Uma plantation de maconha no Wyoming"), as Veloso's vacillation as he tries to sound like a rock singer.
Having said that, I should add, or reiterate, were this someone else's recording, I would probably find it very good. But I expect more from Caetano. This, however, didn't keep me from giving "Noites do Norte" another chance. Likewise most of Caetano Veloso's other albums, this one grows with time. The repeated audition bring to light details, nuances that we didn't perceive before; we notice certain musical texture, inaudible in the first try; we detect certain messages that are only reveled to us through the impregnation of the lyrics in our memory. This record is, after all, an adequate sample of the diversity and musical opulence of this who is one of the fathers of the Tropicalism and the Brazilian Popular Music as we know it, and who has brought so much beauty to the four corners of the world.
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Caetano Veloso Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil
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ASIN: B00000IOD9 Release Date: 1999-04-13 |
Tracks:
- Jorge de Capad
- Prenda Minha
- Meditation (Medita)
- Terra
- Eclipse Oculto
- Texto "Verdade Tropical"
- Bem Devagar
- Dr
- Saudosismo
- Carolina
- Sozinho
- Esse Cara
- Mel [Honey Housey Version]
- Onde O Rio E Mais Baiano (Where Rio Is Most Bahian)
- Na Linha Do Equador
- Odara
- NEnche
- Luz de Tieta
- Atrde Verde-E-Rosa So Vai Quem Jorreu
- Vida Boa
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The Bahia-born vocalist, composer, and guitarist Caetano Veloso is one the prime architects of the Brazilian Tropicalia sound of the late '60s. That style blended favela samba rhythms and city bossa nova melodies with American rock and Jamaican reggae. Over the years, the Grammy Award-winning Veloso has refined Tropicalia with his hypnotic vocals and brilliant lyrics, as this live date from Rio in 1998 aurally illustrates. Fans of his last CD, Livro, will find the same sophisticated horn and string arrangements by Jacques Morelenbaum gracing the surging Afro-Brazilian beats. The 20 tracks represent the full spectrum of Veloso's music: from his playful take on the Miles Davis-Gil Evans rendition of the traditional song "Prenda Minha" to his bouncy update of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Meditação." Veloso also reprises the compositions of his tropical partners on Gilberto Gil's "Bem Devager" and "Drão" and Chico Buarque's "Carolina." Along with a zesty remake of "Mel," a hit by his sister Maria Bethania, and his own '70s favorite "Terra," Caetano Veloso shows that he is, indeed, the sound of Brazil. --Eugene Holley Jr.Album Details
One of the Veloso's Best Albums. Sales Reached Over 1,000,000 Copies in Brazil.Customer Reviews:
Uno de los mejores que he escuchado de Caetano Veloso.......2006-02-26
Manuel Linares
www.manuel-linares.com
simply beautiful.......2004-04-24
Lovely.......2003-08-31
Best of the last years.......2002-09-10
El resto es una hora -por momentos demoledora- para disfrutar, sustentada en brillantes versiones como las de "Terra", "Eclipse Oculto" y "Mel".
Caetano, como hacía tiempo que venía demostrándolo, acá hace de un excelente maestro de ceremonias, apoyado por el gran Jack Morelembaum en el cello.
Very Good Start for a Not as Good Album.......2001-10-12
The CD named after the song I fell in love with was the first of a great sequence of albums that Caetano released throughout almost a decade. Followed "Estrangeiro" (1989), among other album, the masterpieces "Circuladô" (1991), "Circuladô Vivo" (1992), "Fina Estampa" (1994), "Fina Estampa ao Vivo" and "Livro" (1997) - the last winning "best album of the year" in the Latin Grammy Award. I bought all of these records and went to all his concerts during the decade that followed. The sequence of good albums was so amazing that I started to believe that their author was infallible; that whatever he produced was unquestionably good. And I don't think I was alone; during the 90s Caetano became a national, maybe even international, unanimity.
Nevertheless, the CD "Prenda Minha" (1999) came to reinforce the Brazilian popular saying that declares that "all unanimity is dumb". The album is not that bad, but Caetano raised our standards to such a level that we always expect his works to near the perfection. Were this record signed by other artist, maybe, I wouldn't be as critic.
This album has actually a very good beginning. I love the sequence composed by the first four songs. The CD opens with a version of the tune "Jorge da Capadócia" by Jorge Ben. The song starts smoothly and grows along with the introduction of more and more percussion instruments - it starts with hands clapping and progresses to a complete group of percussion. The second song appears after an incredible transition in which the intense sound of drums and timbales is replaced by an ensemble of brass instruments that opens the mellow tune of the title song "Prenda Minha". A not less impressive transition brings the beautiful "Meditação" (Meditation) - a composition by Tom Jobim and Newton Mendonça. The fourth song, "Terra" (Earth), is an excellent re-record - rich in a new arrangement (credited, as "Jorge da Capadócia", to all the band - all other arrangements are signed by Jaques Morelenbaun) and strong interpretation by Caetano, who is backed up by the versatile band under maestro Morelenbaun's command. But that's it. What comes after the fourth song does not tells me much. They are 14 more tunes. Most of them re-record of old successes, which bring little or no excitement to me, neither in the arrangement, nor on the lyrics.
When I got "Noites do Norte" (Nights of the North), the latest work of Veloso, the first authorial since "Livro", once again, I was disappointed.
I really like when Caetano shows us his experimental side, as he did in "Circuladô", "Livro" or "Estrangeiro", but I felt that this time he "lost the hand". For instance, that happens when he sings/recite the beautiful text by the Brazilian abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco, the title song "Noites do Norte". It's not the first time Veloso attempted to "sing" prose - he did it before successfully in "Circuladô Vivo" ("Americanos") and "Prenda Minha" ("Verdade Tropical"). All the bravura of the century old essay (1900) didn't help in this case - he should just have kept his original idea and put the excerpt in the insert of the CD.
The homage to Raul Seixas (precursor of Brazilian rock)"Rock'n'Raul" has a nice rock arrangement that brings to Caetano's MPB some contemporary rock and techno flavor. The rhymes of the lyrics, however, don't do it to me ("Esbórnia na Califórnia/Dias ruins em New Orleans/O grande mago em Chicago/.../Uma plantation de maconha no Wyoming"), as Veloso's vacillation as he tries to sound like a rock singer.
Having said that, I should add, or reiterate, were this someone else's recording, I would probably find it very good. But I expect more from Caetano. This, however, didn't keep me from giving "Noites do Norte" another chance. Likewise most of Caetano Veloso's other albums, this one grows with time. The repeated audition bring to light details, nuances that we didn't perceive before; we notice certain musical texture, inaudible in the first try; we detect certain messages that are only reveled to us through the impregnation of the lyrics in our memory. This record is, after all, an adequate sample of the diversity and musical opulence of this who is one of the fathers of the Tropicalism and the Brazilian Popular Music as we know it, and who has brought so much beauty to the four corners of the world.
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Prenda Minha
Caetano Veloso Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil
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ASIN: B00000IGTB Release Date: 1999-03-16 |
Tracks:
- Jorge de Capad
- Prenda Minha
- Meditation (Medita)
- Terra
- Eclipse Oculto
- Texto "Verdade Tropical"
- Bem Devagar
- Dr
- Saudosismo
- Carolina
- Sozinho
- Esse Cara
- Mel [Honey Housey Version]
- Onde O Rio E Mais Baiano (Where Rio Is Most Bahian)
- Na Linha Do Equador
- Odara
- NEnche
- Luz de Tieta
- Atrde Verde-E-Rosa So Vai Quem Jorreu
- Vida Boa
Amazon.com
The Bahia-born vocalist, composer, and guitarist Caetano Veloso is one the prime architects of the Brazilian Tropicalia sound of the late '60s. That style blended favela samba rhythms and city bossa nova melodies with American rock and Jamaican reggae. Over the years, the Grammy Award-winning Veloso has refined Tropicalia with his hypnotic vocals and brilliant lyrics, as this live date from Rio in 1998 aurally illustrates. Fans of his last CD, Livro, will find the same sophisticated horn and string arrangements by Jacques Morelenbaum gracing the surging Afro-Brazilian beats. The 20 tracks represent the full spectrum of Veloso's music: from his playful take on the Miles Davis-Gil Evans rendition of the traditional song "Prenda Minha" to his bouncy update of Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Meditação." Veloso also reprises the compositions of his tropical partners on Gilberto Gil's "Bem Devager" and "Drão" and Chico Buarque's "Carolina." Along with a zesty remake of "Mel," a hit by his sister Maria Bethania, and his own '70s favorite "Terra," Caetano Veloso shows that he is, indeed, the sound of Brazil. --Eugene Holley Jr.Album Details
One of the Veloso's Best Albums. Sales Reached Over 1,000,000 Copies in Brazil.Customer Reviews:
Uno de los mejores que he escuchado de Caetano Veloso.......2006-02-26
Manuel Linares
www.manuel-linares.com
simply beautiful.......2004-04-24
Lovely.......2003-08-31
Best of the last years.......2002-09-10
El resto es una hora -por momentos demoledora- para disfrutar, sustentada en brillantes versiones como las de "Terra", "Eclipse Oculto" y "Mel".
Caetano, como hacía tiempo que venía demostrándolo, acá hace de un excelente maestro de ceremonias, apoyado por el gran Jack Morelembaum en el cello.
Very Good Start for a Not as Good Album.......2001-10-12
The CD named after the song I fell in love with was the first of a great sequence of albums that Caetano released throughout almost a decade. Followed "Estrangeiro" (1989), among other album, the masterpieces "Circuladô" (1991), "Circuladô Vivo" (1992), "Fina Estampa" (1994), "Fina Estampa ao Vivo" and "Livro" (1997) - the last winning "best album of the year" in the Latin Grammy Award. I bought all of these records and went to all his concerts during the decade that followed. The sequence of good albums was so amazing that I started to believe that their author was infallible; that whatever he produced was unquestionably good. And I don't think I was alone; during the 90s Caetano became a national, maybe even international, unanimity.
Nevertheless, the CD "Prenda Minha" (1999) came to reinforce the Brazilian popular saying that declares that "all unanimity is dumb". The album is not that bad, but Caetano raised our standards to such a level that we always expect his works to near the perfection. Were this record signed by other artist, maybe, I wouldn't be as critic.
This album has actually a very good beginning. I love the sequence composed by the first four songs. The CD opens with a version of the tune "Jorge da Capadócia" by Jorge Ben. The song starts smoothly and grows along with the introduction of more and more percussion instruments - it starts with hands clapping and progresses to a complete group of percussion. The second song appears after an incredible transition in which the intense sound of drums and timbales is replaced by an ensemble of brass instruments that opens the mellow tune of the title song "Prenda Minha". A not less impressive transition brings the beautiful "Meditação" (Meditation) - a composition by Tom Jobim and Newton Mendonça. The fourth song, "Terra" (Earth), is an excellent re-record - rich in a new arrangement (credited, as "Jorge da Capadócia", to all the band - all other arrangements are signed by Jaques Morelenbaun) and strong interpretation by Caetano, who is backed up by the versatile band under maestro Morelenbaun's command. But that's it. What comes after the fourth song does not tells me much. They are 14 more tunes. Most of them re-record of old successes, which bring little or no excitement to me, neither in the arrangement, nor on the lyrics.
When I got "Noites do Norte" (Nights of the North), the latest work of Veloso, the first authorial since "Livro", once again, I was disappointed.
I really like when Caetano shows us his experimental side, as he did in "Circuladô", "Livro" or "Estrangeiro", but I felt that this time he "lost the hand". For instance, that happens when he sings/recite the beautiful text by the Brazilian abolitionist Joaquim Nabuco, the title song "Noites do Norte". It's not the first time Veloso attempted to "sing" prose - he did it before successfully in "Circuladô Vivo" ("Americanos") and "Prenda Minha" ("Verdade Tropical"). All the bravura of the century old essay (1900) didn't help in this case - he should just have kept his original idea and put the excerpt in the insert of the CD.
The homage to Raul Seixas (precursor of Brazilian rock)"Rock'n'Raul" has a nice rock arrangement that brings to Caetano's MPB some contemporary rock and techno flavor. The rhymes of the lyrics, however, don't do it to me ("Esbórnia na Califórnia/Dias ruins em New Orleans/O grande mago em Chicago/.../Uma plantation de maconha no Wyoming"), as Veloso's vacillation as he tries to sound like a rock singer.
Having said that, I should add, or reiterate, were this someone else's recording, I would probably find it very good. But I expect more from Caetano. This, however, didn't keep me from giving "Noites do Norte" another chance. Likewise most of Caetano Veloso's other albums, this one grows with time. The repeated audition bring to light details, nuances that we didn't perceive before; we notice certain musical texture, inaudible in the first try; we detect certain messages that are only reveled to us through the impregnation of the lyrics in our memory. This record is, after all, an adequate sample of the diversity and musical opulence of this who is one of the fathers of the Tropicalism and the Brazilian Popular Music as we know it, and who has brought so much beauty to the four corners of the world.
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Prenda Na Minha- E.P.
Shiva Las Vegas Manufacturer: Ybraz ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004WH2B Release Date: 2000-07-18 |
Album Details
A Collection of Brazilian Hits.Rock Music:
- Rappa Mundi
- Rosso Relativo [Import]
- Salsa Africa
- Salsa Pop
- Songs From Albion 2
- Special [Import]
- Spice it Up
- Steel Drum Island Christmas Collection - Volume 2
- Storia O Leggenda [Import]
- Story 69-79
Recommended Music:
Led Zeppelin [Limited Edition] [Import]
Miles Davis & the Modern Jazz Giants (20 Bit Mastering) [Original recording remastered]
Capsule: The Best of KOD 1988-94 [Limited Edition] [Import]
Affiliated 4 Life: If Ya [Explicit Lyrics]