"Caetano is likely to be remembered as one of the '60's great composers, period."-New York Times Book Review. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-a[...]
The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door crushing the cockroach and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at[...]
What makes a song sound foreign? What makes it sound "American," or Brazilian? Caetano Veloso's 2004 American songbook album, A Foreign Sound, is a meditation on these questions-but in truth, they were questions he'd been asking throughout his career. Properly heard, the album throws a wrench into r[...]