Veloso, Caetano

Tropicalia (pink)

With the release of this seminal album, Veloso would become the leading voice of Tropicalia. The songs on this album immediately connected with people. Alegria, Algeria was his breakout hit that gained traction as a hymn for liberty advocates, juxtaposing images of Coca Cola, guerrilla groups, bombs and Brigitte Bardot as part of the everyday experience. The album's first song Tropicalia was an anthem for the whole movement; it's a fragmented allegory, a structure borrowed from friends in the concrete poetry scene, touching on divergent cultural symbols, events, allusions and idioms, nimbly representing and critiquing the many contradictions in the new Brazilian dictatorship. Superbacana (translated as 'Supergroovy') follows a hyperbolic superhero's use of technology to fight a gang of cowboys led by the money-hungry Uncle Scrooge, serving as allusions to American imperialism and greed felt in their country, all in the rapid-fi re structure of a comic book. The subtext in all these songs, which the dictatorship would not immediately catch, were that these repressed but glaring contradictions, not the bountiful sunny paradise that the military regime was pushing, were the true national identity. Unfortunately, these cleverly veiled jabs in Veloso and his contemporaries' bodies of work gained greater and greater exposure as the movement became more and more popular, leading to the arrest, imprisonment and forced exile of Veloso and many of his cohort.

Price
€ 26.75
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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
06-12-2024
Label
Item-nr
600581
EAN
0889397108625
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. TROPICáLIA 3:39
2. CLARICE 5:28
3. NO DIA EM QUE EU VIM-ME EMBORA 2:27
4. ALEGRIA, ALEGRIA 2:50
5. ONDE ANDARáS 1:57
6. ANUNCIAÇO 2:21
7. SUPERBACANA 1:27
8. PAISAGEM TIL 2:39
9. CLARA 1:45
10. SOY LOCO POR Tí, AMÉRICA 3:44
11. AVE MARIA 2:00
12. ELES 4:37