Transa (album)
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| Studio album by Caetano Veloso | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Genre | MPB, tropicália | |||
| Length | 37:13 | |||
| Label | PolyGram | |||
| Producer | Ralph Mace | |||
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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, though he returned to Brazil shortly after completing it.
Caetano calls it "one of my favorite records", feeling that it reaches a level of musicianship he was unable to achieve on previous albums. 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. Its success would set up the failure of the much more unconventional followup, Araçá Azul. On August 2016, Pitchfork elected "You Don't Know Me" as the 73rd best song from the seventies. Journalist Kevin Lozano writes:
All tracks written by Caetano Veloso except where noted.
Adapted from the book Tropical Truth.
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