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Caetano Veloso, A Foreign Sound

Audio CD

Disk ID: 616718

Disk length: 1h 16m 8s (22 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2004

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Carioca 3:35
2. So in Love 2:47
3. Always 2:00
4. Come as You Are 4:22
5. Feelings 4:00
6. Love for sale 3:30
7. Man I love 2:35
8. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 6:09
9. Cry me a River 3:25
10. Jamaica Farewell 3:33
11. Nature Boy 3:07
12. (Nothing But) Flowers 5:33
13. Manhattann 1:32
14. Diana 1:41
15. Summertime 2:49
16. It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) 3:45
17. Love Me Tender 4:19
18. Body and Soul 4:34
19. If It's Magic 2:40
20. Detached 4:11
21. Something Good 2:40
22. Blue Skies 3:10

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Review

On this new studio CD, Brazilian composer/singer/author Caetano Veloso reinterprets classic and contemporary American pop songs. Veloso's feathery, Miles Davis-like, Portuguese-inflected vocals negotiate the English language with silken skill with a 28-piece orchestra led by his long-time arranger, cellist Jaques Morelenbaum--featuring Carlinhos Brown on percussion and Veloso's gifted son Moreno on guitar--over Afro-bossa rhythms and spacey, echoplexed synth/guitar strains. Veloso sings the melody straight on the stunning string-accompanied "Feelings," and on a brave a capella reading of Cole Porter's "Love For Sale." But the fun begins when he reggae-fies Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," sings "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" with boppish sax lines and offers a twangy take on Kurt Cobain's "Come as You Are." From Stevie Wonder's "If It's Magic" to Elvis Presley's "Love Me Tender" and Arto Lindsey's edgy "Detached," Veloso shows that he's a master of sonic subversion. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 22, Disk length: 1h 16m 27s (+0m 19s)

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 23 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 15m 49s (-1m 41s)

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 23 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 31s (+0m 23s)

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 23 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 16m 31s (+0m 23s)

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 23 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 15m 14s (-1m 6s)

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 23 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 1h 17m 16s (+1m 8s)

A Foreign Sound

Tracks: 22, Disk length: 1h 11m 49s (-5m 41s)

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