Orfeu (1999 Film)
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Composer: Caetano VelosoEdition: Music CD
Audio: Portuguese (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-01-18
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- O Enredo de Orfeu (Historia Do Carnaval Carioca) - Caetano Veloso, OPensador, Gabriel
- Sou Voce - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- Valso de Euridice - Caetano Veloso, DeMoraes, Vinicius
- Cantico À Natureza (Primavera) - Caetano Veloso, Jamelão
- Manha de Carnaval - Caetano Veloso, Bonfa, Luiz
- Os Cinco Bailes da Historia Do Rio - Caetano Veloso, Bacalhau
- A Felicidade - Caetano Veloso, DeMoraes, Vinicius
- Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Você - Caetano Veloso, DeMoraes, Vinicius
- Sou Voce (Asa Delta) - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- A Polícia Sobe O Morro - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- Valsa de Euridice/Lua, Lua, Lua (Santa Lua) - Caetano Veloso, DeMoraes, Vinicius
- Alucinacao - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- Eu E O Meu Amor (Carmem No Desfile) - Caetano Veloso, DeMoraes, Vinicius
- Orfeu Leva Euridice - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- Batuque Final - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- Mira Mata Orfeu - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
- Orfeu Dorme - Caetano Veloso, Veloso, Caetano
Free Music Notes for Orfeu (1999 Film)
Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Lately I have not been able to stop reviewing Veloso albums, becuase I have not been able to stop listening to them. Orfeu was my first Veloso album, and this has led to many more. Brazilian music fan or not, hear Veloso and you know you are hearing a master. If I am gushing, straying from my tightly edited, no nonsense review style, you will have to forgive me; this happens when I know I am witness to someone special.
The miricle of Veloso is not even that he made wonderful music in the face of political repression in 1960s Brazil, although that is miraculous. The miricle is that this was not his best work, and forty years on, he just keeps getting better and better. He is like a wine that improves with consistancy. Even my beloved Sir Paul McCarteny can't boast that.
For firm evidence, look no further than 1999s Orfeu. Like most of the masters mature work, this soundtrack sticks to the diverse latin forms that Veloso has spun his career on. But the more he works, the more textured and layerd and sad and bouyent the music gets. The guitar work here is pristine, from master fingers, not digital production. The percussion booms--you could make a dance album from the rhythm tracks. The chords and melodies express emotion more clearly than Veloso's early work. He is not afraid, even, to use avant guarde effects during a death sequence, and yes; he can invoke fear as powerfully as he can love, grace or sadness.
Abstractions aside, this is a rich musical experiance for both a casual listener and a surgical critic.
I would say buy this CD but that would understate it. Don't deny yourself this experiance, these feelings. That is more like it.
Orfeu (1999 Film) Poster
Credited to Veloso and issued in the U.S. on the heels of his excellent Livro, Orfeu is actually the Veloso-supervised soundtrack of Brazilian director Carlos Diegues's version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. The music includes remakes of songs from the 1959 Black Orpheus and new tunes by Veloso and rapper Gabriel O Pensador, along with lovely score excerpts that fill about half the CD's playing time. Focusing heavily on life in the country's slums, the film's concept is a perfect vehicle for Veloso's passionate, hyper-intelligent mind; Orfeu the album is certain to whet listeners' appetites for the picture itself, due for American release later in 2000. Until then, stateside fans of Brazilian pop have another beautiful, challenging record to add to their collections. --Rickey WrightInternational Music CDs
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