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Featured Release
Caetano Veloso + David Byrne
Live at Carnegie Hall
In 2004, Caetano Veloso curated a week of special concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall and invited his longtime friend and collaborator David Byrne to join him for the show captured here. Each performs an acoustic set of his own songs and also perform together. The Seattle Times calls the concert "an absolute jewel." The Observer gives the album four stars, calling it "an entrancing showcase of their respective talents ... and even on disc a sense of joy and spontaneity is palpable." The Herald says it "leaves the listener grinning from ear to ear."
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Caetano Veloso + David Byrne
Live at Carnegie Hall
In 2004, Caetano Veloso curated a week of special concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall and invited his longtime friend and collaborator David Byrne to join him for the show captured here. Each performs an acoustic set of his own songs and also perform together. The Seattle Times calls the concert "an absolute jewel." The Observer gives the album four stars, calling it "an entrancing showcase of their respective talents ... and even on disc a sense of joy and spontaneity is palpable." The Herald says it "leaves the listener grinning from ear to ear."
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Caetano Veloso
zii e zie
Working with the youthful trio he introduced on 2007’s brash, rock-oriented Cê, Veloso fashions a set rooted in samba but filtered through rock and funk, with songs that range from the bluntly political to the frankly sexual. The Times of London declared, “The Brazilian master remains in a league of his own.”
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Caetano Veloso
Cê
Veloso, backed by a young Brazilian trio, creates a surprisingly brash rock sound on this Latin Grammy Award-winning album. Yet, the Boston Globe notes, "The man's voice is as richly seductive and thoughtful as ever." His lyrics "offer intellectual and cultural queries ... suffused with yearning and ambiguous eroticism."
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Caetano Veloso
A Foreign Sound
On his first all-English set, Veloso pays tribute to 20th century American pop composers, from Cole Porter to Kurt Cobain. "His more outre or unconventional choices," says the Washington Post, "sit comfortably alongside such standards as 'Nature Boy' and 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.'"
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Caetano Veloso
The Best of Caetano Veloso
Retrospective of Veloso's work from 1989–2001 includes a live rendition of the haunting "Cucurrucucú Paloma," featured in Pedro Almodovar's film Talk to Her. Rolling Stone declared, "This expertly compiled anthology of Veloso's mature years shows him in complete command of his craft."
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Caetano Veloso
Live in Bahia
Veloso performs before a homeland audience on this 2002 live double-disc. Says W magazine, "A rapturous crowd, often singing along word for word, neatly balances the gentle sophistication of the Brazilian pop legend, bringing a powerful immediacy to classics as well as new tunes."
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Caetano Veloso
Omaggio a Federico e Giulietta
Veloso pays tribute to cinematic maestro Federico Fellini and his wife / leading lady Giuletta Masina on this live set. Songs were chosen, says Veloso, to evoke "this metaphysical feeling of a time gone by … similar to the feeling I also sense in their films."
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Caetano Veloso
Noites do Norte
On this percussion-driven disc, Brazilian singer-composer Veloso explores the historical/musical African roots of Bahian culture. The New York Times says of this Latin Grammy Award-winning record: "The album moves from songs about slavery to songs about love and Mr. Veloso's musical calling, and they are all entwined."
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![Orfeu [Soundtrack]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/albums/coverart/veloso-orfeu-soundtrack.jpg "Orfeu [Soundtrack]")
Caetano Veloso
Orfeu [Soundtrack]
Veloso supervised the soundtrack and composed the score for Carlos Diegues's 1999 cinematic retelling of the Orpheus-Eurydice legend, set in Rio's slums. The album, says the Chicago Sun-Times, "is jam-packed with stylistic variety, ranging from breezy bossa novas to sweeping orchestral extracts."
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Caetano Veloso
Livro
Veloso offers his reveries, cerebral and sensual, in song and on the page. (The booklet contains an excerpt from his memoir, Tropical Truth.) The New York Times described this Grammy winner as “wildly intelligent and sensual, and perfectly produced, moving from orchestral works to minimalist ballads and Brazilian drum workouts.” Rolling Stone called it "a fresh, fearless collection that balances ideas and sonics, art-song stream and pop sport."