Caetano Veloso :: Tropicália
This song gave name to a genre. This song bears the name of a phoenix. It wails out of the darkness; it sings with the abandon of youth; it is a testament and it is a memorial.
I’ve been planning on posting Tropicália for a while. After reading Melissa’s last post I was floored by how similar these two musician’s stories are. As sad as that is I can’t help but feel like the atrocities that surrounded these people are somehow transcended by the beauty and power of the music they created. Those who died soon after hearing these tunes first broadcasts are remembered every time someone hears them for the first time, lives to talk about them, and sing along with them.
Please listen to this song and remember the ghosts that listened before us.
Tropicália
Caetano Veloso (wikipedia)
hiram said on tuesday, april 15th, 2008
claire said on tuesday, april 15th, 2008
might i also add that this + gilberto gil, gal costa, os mutantes, jorge ben, etc. is PERFECT springtime listening music. sit out on the porch and take it all in!
Melissa said on sunday, april 20th, 2008
Please listen to this song and remember the ghosts that listened before us.
This is a fitting epitaph for so much of the music I love. Thank you for this, and for this beautiful song.
When Melissa first played me some Selda tracks, I was not only struck by the similarity in story, but by the similarity in the sound of some of the songs of the tropicalia movement and the music in Turkey around the same time as well. Nicely worded, vj, and what a wonderful song.