Caetano Veloso - C?
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Artist: Caetano VelosoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Outro
- Minhas Lagrimas
- Rocks
- Deusa Urbana
- Waly Salomao
- Nao Me Arrependo
- Musa Hibrida
- Odeio
- Homem
- Porque?
- Um Sonho
- O Heroi
Free Music Notes for C?
Free Music Review: Stripped Down, Raw, and Among Caetano's Absolute Best
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard C? for the first time at about 40,000 feet over the Atlantic. The sound quality of the airline provided headphones left a lot to be desired, but what stuck with me most was the hushed drum and Beatles feel of "Minhas lagrimas".
I liked what I'd heard enough to buy it upon returning to the US. Now that I've had a chance to hear it with proper sound quality, after just a few spins, it's quickly emerging as Caetano's best. At last count, I think I have about 15 of his records, so to say this is among his best is to say a lot.
The opening track begins with an oblique avant garde feel that finishes with an incredible guitar wail from Pedro Sa, who co-produced the record. Sa's guitar playing, at times slow, and at other times fast and furious, dominates the entire album. Sa lays down angular ripping rock guitar leads which sometimes recall Nirvana, and at other times is slow yet powerful.
On C?, Caeatano brings back the feel of the records he made while exiled in London during the late 60s and early 70s, yet with the maturity of a composer who is now 40 years older. His inimitable tenor goes from what many consider his classic, plaintive and contemplative persona to floating above Bowiesque "subconscious" counter harmonies. The record flows beautifully from mood to mood, often with gorgeous Beatles/John Lennon Plastic Ono Band influences shining through.
Sa's playing gives the impression that he's just barely under control, adding trippy effects at several points. Along with a super tight rhythm section, Caetano's voice, and little else, somehow the songs flow together.
Lyrically over the years, Caetano has often been quite spiritual. On C?, much of the subject matter deals with raw, animalistic sex, for the most part devoid of emotion, with the possible exception of anger. His early sound abounds throughout this powerful album. It finishes off with "O heroi", which sounds more like Tom Ze than Caetano Veloso. And that's great.
C? Poster
The adventurous veteran rarely fails to surprise, as Caetano Veloso continues to confound the easy-listening expectations that surround Brazilian music. Co-produced by Veloso's son, Moreno, and featuring the crisp, edgy backing of a band of three musicians a generation younger than Caetano, this is his version of a rock album. The freshness of the arrangements appeals throughout, from the propulsive "Rocks" with its frenetic guitar break through the tom-tom throb and call-and-response vocals of "Waly Salom?o" and the spoken word, soaring harmonies, and art-house atmospherics of the closing "O Her?i" ("The Hero"). Yet the supple vocals, languid balladry, and seductive sensuality (at times so lyrically explicit in translation it might make Prince blush) render this very much a Veloso album above all else. --Don McLeeseCaetano Veloso's Ce is as bold as it is beguiling. Friend, collaborator and label-mate David Byrne calls it "an immersion in the land of experimental indie rock."
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