David Berthy Posts

Transa, recorded in 1972, is my favorite album by the legendary Brazilian artist Caetano Veloso. This was the last album he released while living in political exile in London, and there's a bramble of seemingly incompatible ideas clashing on the record: exile, anonymity, hope, memories of Brazilian music, British pop music, lyrics sung in English, lyrics sung in Portuguese. I love how Veloso embraces these contradictions with a celebratory defiance.

Transa