Caetano Veloso, Noites Do Norte - 50m 44s

Tracks & Durations

1. Zera a Reza	5:08
2. Noites do Norte	2:45
3. 13 de Maio	3:36
4. Zumbi	4:56
5. Rock'n'Raul	5:16
6. Michelangelo Antonioni	3:44
7. Cantiga de Boi	4:47
8. Cobra Coral	4:16
9. Ia	3:52
10. Meu Rio	4:32
11. Sou Seu Sabiá	4:44
12. Tempestades Solares	3:01

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Review

Nearly 35 years after the advent of tropicalia, the Brazilian movement that fused native music and visuals with Anglo/psychedelic flavors, singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso continues his deep, playful experimentation. Noites do Norte ("Northern Nights") is a striking art-pop fusion whose intellectualism is often bound up with the beauty of its layered tones. Concerns from the country's national identity and ongoing racial crises--a theme that fed Veloso's 2000 soundtrack to Orfeu, an update of the Black Orpheus story--to early memories, broken hearts, and the artist's adoration of filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni swim through a colorful aural canvas. But for all of Veloso's trademark verbal surprises (for one, the Antonioni tribute is sung in Italian), it's easy to believe his claim that initially "I did not think about the songs. I went to the studio looking for sounds." Whether juxtaposing a Milesian trumpet with lush reeds and strings ("Sou Seu Sabiá"), deploying screeching rock guitar ("Rock 'n' Raul," "Ia") and machine noises ("Cantiga de Boi") in the midst of acoustic sound, or contrasting a troupe of drummers with baroque strings over the discrete movements of the three-minute title track, Veloso fills the disc with so much music that it seems to suspend or expand the listener's sense of time: a rare trick from a rare trickster. --Rickey Wright

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Noites Do Norte

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 50m 44s

Noites Do Norte

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 50m 44s

Noites Do Norte

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 50m 46s (+0m 2s)

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