Transa (album)
Transa is the fourth album by Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, released on 1972 by PolyGram. Like its predecessor, it was recorded while the artist was exiled in London,[1] though he returned to Brazil shortly after completing it.
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| Released | 1972 | |||
| Genre | MPB, tropicália | |||
| Length | 37:13 | |||
| Label | PolyGram | |||
| Producer | Ralph Mace | |||
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Reception
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Caetano calls it "one of my favorite records", feeling that it reaches a level of musicianship he was unable to achieve on previous albums.[3] It also proved popular with the Brazilian public, due partly to its inclusion of a new version of the old samba "Mora na Filosofia", originally by Monsueto Menezes. It was listed by Rolling Stone Brazil as one of the 10 best Brazilian albums in history.[4] Its success would set up the failure of the much more unconventional followup, Araçá Azul.[3] On August 2016, Pitchfork elected "You Don't Know Me" as the 73rd best song from the seventies. Journalist Kevin Lozano writes:[1]
[in the song] he writes what is probably his purest and most unvarnished expression of the loss he experienced during those years, 'Feel so lonely/The world is spinning around slowly,' he sings. The song floats between Portuguese and English seamlessly, highlighting the essential emotion irrevocably lost in translation. It's a masterpiece of a song that could only be written from the point of a view of an exile.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Caetano Veloso except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "You Don't Know Me" | 3:50 |
| 2. | "Nine Out of Ten" | 4:55 |
| 3. | "Triste Bahia" (Caetano Veloso, Gregório de Matos) | 9:32 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 4. | "It's a Long Way" | 6:05 |
| 5. | "Mora na Filosofia" (Monsueto, Arnaldo Passos) | 6:16 |
| 6. | "Neolithic Man" | 4:42 |
| 7. | "Nostalgia (That's What Rock'n Roll Is All About)" | 1:20 |
Personnel
Adapted from the book Tropical Truth.[3]
- Caetano Veloso - guitar, vocals
- Macalé - guitar, musical direction
- Moacir Albuquerque - bass
- Tuti Moreno - percussion
- Áureo de Sousa - percussion
References
- Lozano, Kevin (22 August 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s - Page 7". Pitchfork. Condé Nast. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
- Neder, Alvaro. "Transa". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-2-8.
- Veloso, Caetano (2002). Tropical Truth. Isabel de Sena (trans.). New York: Knopf. p. 350. ISBN 0-375-40788-X.
- "Os 100 maiores discos da música brasileira" (in Portuguese). Umas Linhas. 2007-12-20. Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-04-20.