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| Cê | 
 enlarge | Artist: Caetano Veloso
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 7302
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79981
UPC: 075597998122
EAN: 0075597998122
ASIN: B000LKARD4
Release Date: January 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Outro | | • | Minhas Lagrimas | | • | Rocks | | • | Deusa Urbana | | • | Waly Salomao | | • | Nao Me Arrependo | | • | Musa Hibrida | | • | Odeio | | • | Homem | | • | Porquê? | | • | Um Sonho | | • | O Heroi |
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Amazon.com
The adventurous veteran rarely fails to surprise, as Caetano Veloso continues to confound the easy-listening expectations that surround Brazilian music. Co-produced by Veloso's son, Moreno, and featuring the crisp, edgy backing of a band of three musicians a generation younger than Caetano, this is his version of a rock album. The freshness of the arrangements appeals throughout, from the propulsive "Rocks" with its frenetic guitar break through the tom-tom throb and call-and-response vocals of "Waly Salomao" and the spoken word, soaring harmonies, and art-house atmospherics of the closing "O Heroi" ("The Hero"). Yet the supple vocals, languid balladry, and seductive sensuality (at times so lyrically explicit in translation it might make Prince blush) render this very much a Veloso album above all else. --Don McLeese
Album Description
Caetano Veloso's Ce is as bold as it is beguiling. Friend, collaborator and label-mate David Byrne calls it "an immersion in the land of experimental indie rock."
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 Beautiful. January 24, 2007
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
Cê" is a really surprising new album from Brazilian legend Caetano Veloso, and a big departure from the work he's been turning out for the last several years.
In fact, the more I listen to it the more I think that it might be the greatest album he's recorded since his late-'60s and early-'70s heyday. Veloso has long been tagged the Brazilian Bob Dylan, so I suppose that would make "Cê" his "LOVE AND THEFT", except that instead of basking in the patina of his old age with the world weariness of a hundred-year-old man, Veloso has taken the opposite track and somehow morphed back into a nineteen-year-old.
Seriously, it's almost bizarre to hear such a young sounding album from someone who must be in their mid-sixties, his voice is totally intact and as beautiful as ever and he's more than willing to take artistic chances that he really doesn't have to be taking at this point in his career.
No doubt his son Moreno deserves some credit for this, as he produced the record and wisely shed many of the adult contemporary trappings that have been Veloso's safe haven for many an album.
Totally devoid of syrup, the songs are all stripped down and jittery, with weird angular guitar playing creating an excellent tension to Veloso's beautiful, sweet delivery.
Unambiguously excellent, and further proof that the man is simply one of the greatest pop musicians of the last forty years.
Listen to it.
You'll love it.
A great, intimate rock album from Brazil's greatest singer February 8, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Veloso does something different with each of his albums, which can make it difficult for new listeners to figure out which CD to pick up first. Now he's made the answer easy: Ce. This disc is an intimate collection of songs whose style can perhaps (however inaccurately...) be described as calmly ferocious garage rock tunes. While he doesn't "rock" in the American sense, the stripped-down instrumentation of this album (guitar, bass, drums, voice) provides a great counterpoint to some of his other, more overblown works of recent years (the orchestral arrangements of Estampa Fina, the horns, strings and samba-rhythms of Livro, etc., and his inconsistent A Foreign Sound). The tunes on Ce are tightly-wound, and, though sometimes sweet, are actually angrier than Veloso has been in the past (he recently went through a rough divorce). The great rock tunes on this one are "Outro," "Odeio," and "Rocks." "Homem" talks of all the things about women of which he's not jealous, and a few of which he is: longevity and multiple orgasms. With this album Veloso also distances himself from the more soporific trends in Brazilian popular music (Bebel Gilberto, Marisa Monte, Veloso himself on some other albums). I highly recommend "Ce," as well as "Live in Bahia," and "Tropicalia II" (which he recorded with Brazil's other great, Gilberto Gil).
Stripped Down, Raw, and Among Caetano's Absolute Best December 3, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I heard Cê for the first time at about 40,000 feet over the Atlantic. The sound quality of the airline provided headphones left a lot to be desired, but what stuck with me most was the hushed drum and Beatles feel of "Minhas lagrimas".
I liked what I'd heard enough to buy it upon returning to the US. Now that I've had a chance to hear it with proper sound quality, after just a few spins, it's quickly emerging as Caetano's best. At last count, I think I have about 15 of his records, so to say this is among his best is to say a lot.
The opening track begins with an oblique avant garde feel that finishes with an incredible guitar wail from Pedro Sa, who co-produced the record. Sa's guitar playing, at times slow, and at other times fast and furious, dominates the entire album. Sa lays down angular ripping rock guitar leads which sometimes recall Nirvana, and at other times is slow yet powerful.
On Cê, Caeatano brings back the feel of the records he made while exiled in London during the late 60s and early 70s, yet with the maturity of a composer who is now 40 years older. His inimitable tenor goes from what many consider his classic, plaintive and contemplative persona to floating above Bowiesque "subconscious" counter harmonies. The record flows beautifully from mood to mood, often with gorgeous Beatles/John Lennon Plastic Ono Band influences shining through.
Sa's playing gives the impression that he's just barely under control, adding trippy effects at several points. Along with a super tight rhythm section, Caetano's voice, and little else, somehow the songs flow together.
Lyrically over the years, Caetano has often been quite spiritual. On Cê, much of the subject matter deals with raw, animalistic sex, for the most part devoid of emotion, with the possible exception of anger. His early sound abounds throughout this powerful album. It finishes off with "O heroi", which sounds more like Tom Ze than Caetano Veloso. And that's great.
 Not "A Foreign Sound" or "Fina Estampa" March 5, 2007
2 out of 13 found this review helpful
Very good Caetano music, but not in the category of his two previous ones, both of which are five-star-plus.
 Um VOZ ALÉM TEMPO . . . May 3, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Reviewing anything is treachrous and subjective business. The way we see the world, may not in fact be the way the world is. If we have dirt on our lens, we will see dark spots in the heavens.
Cê by Caetano Veloso in my humble, subjective perception continues to position him as one of the globes timeless treasures. Caetano is much like Miles Davis in significance: a fulcrum upon which styles, ages, and consciousness pivot. Backed by muscians twice his junior, his voice weaves about the verve of their rock-fusion crossbreed seamlessly and without effort: from the ominous to the plaintive, his instrument delivers the necessary tonality and energy.
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