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1, 2007
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C A E T A N O V E L O S O
WORLD MUSIC SUPERSTAR & FOUNDER OF TROPICALISMO
PLAYS
CLASSIC FAVORITES & SONGS FROM HIS NEW ROCK RELEASE Cê
@
PASADENA CIVIC AUDITORIUM
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 14, 2007
"Don't miss your chance to see this living legend. Devendra Banhart's idol - Caetano Veloso ("the 65-year-oldBrazillian music dynamo famous for fusing together more traditional South American sounds with a newer Bossa Nova spin") is going on a tour of North America. A true heavyweight, Caetano Veloso is a pop musician/poet/filmmaker/political activist whose stature in the pantheon of international pop musiciansis on a par with that of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, and Lennon/McCartney." - PASTE MAGAZINE
Summary Facts:
- Concert is Veloso’s ONLY Southern California appearance
on his 2007 world tour.
- Program features all original rock songs off his
break-through album Cê plus
some of his traditional favorites
including DESDE QUE O SAMBA É SAMBA, SAMPA, UM
TOM
- Cê was
recorded with the collaboration of his sons Sá and Moreno Veloso and artists in their 20’s and 30’s. It was
released on the Nonesuch label in Jan 2007.
- The music
has been likened to the Strokes,
Paul Simon and early XTC.
- Veloso is
a multi-Grammy awardwinner who was last seen by L.A. audiences in 2004.
“Cê,” a brisk,
spare record that sounds more like indie rock than any of the other, highly
varied music that he has made in the past forty years...As with almost any
genre that Veloso tackles, he has transformed it”
– SASHA FRERE-JONES, New Yorker Magazine
Los Angeles,
CA - Brazilian Nites Productions and KCRW present Caetano Veloso, one of the greatest songwrites of the century, who
appears in Southern California for the fifth time in his 30-year plus career. His debut in 1997 at the Pantages Theatre with Fina Estampa, and his first ever US
Tour with the release of 1999 Grammy Award-Winning Livro garnered widespread critical acclaim. Both concerts were produced by Brazilian
Nites Productions. The internationally renowned artist graces the Pasadena Civic Auditorium,a historic 3000+ seat performance hall built in
1931and one of the most revered performance halls in the nation, on Wednesday,
November 14, 2007 at 8:00 p. m.
“Cê is not a rock album like the ones I
listen to and that interest me: the songs are mine, my voice is still the same,
my hair is greyer than it is black, less curly and always shorter than when it
was really long—or longer than when I decided to wear it short.” –
states Caetano Veloso.
The concert
will include tracks off Veloso’s new release Cê plus traditional beloved classics such as: DESDE QUE O
SAMBA É SAMBA, UM TOM and more.
Musicians include: Caetano Veloso - vocals, nylon and steel guitars,
Pedro Sá - electric guitar, Ricardo Dias Gomes - bass and Rhodes piano and
Marcelo Callado – drums.
“One of Brazil’s, and the world’s, most
graceful and innovative songwriters…He is that rarest of combinations, a
profoundly self-conscious artist who also follows his most playful instincts.
In the truest Brazilian style, his career has blended seduction and
provocation.” – New York Times
BIOGRAPHY
A native of
the state of Bahia, Caetano Veloso
is one of the most important figures in contemporary Brazilian music. His polemical poetry is considered a
masterpiece. He writes songs as a
painter paints on his canvas. In fact,
he makes every melody he sings sound luminous and newly discovered. The Grammy Awardwinning artist is perhaps Brazil’s
greatest contemporary songwriter and is among the most significant individuals
to come out of the late 60’s Tropicalia or Tropicalismo movement, which fused
Brazilian pop with rock and roll and avant
garde music resulting in a more international, psychedelic, and
socially aware sound. The foundation of Veloso’s intensely eclectic music is
the rich Bahian musical heritage that was influenced by Carribean, African and
North American pop music and the cool seductive bossa nova sound exemplified by
Joao Gilberto.
Jon Pareles,
from The New York Times best describes Veloso as "one of the greatest songwriters of the century: a master melodist, a lyricist who merges
surreal imagery with a sense of history and a sense of humor, a singer whose
voice radiates tenderness and supple swing and a musician who connects to
traditional music, pop and jazz from all over."
A founder of Brazil’s genre-crossing Tropicália
movement in the ’60s, he continues to blend new styles into the 21st century—as
heard on his new, rock-infused CD. Caetano Veloso’s Cê was released by Nonesuch Records on January 23, 2007. The record
includes twelve original songs by Veloso (vocals, nylon and steel guitars), who
recorded them in the spring and summer of 2006 with a rock band of younger
musicians: Pedro Sá (electric guitar), Ricardo Dias Gomes (bass, Rhodes piano),
and Marcelo Callado (drums); it was produced by Sá and Moreno Veloso.
Additionally, Pedro’s brother, Jonas Sá, sings guest vocals on one track (Cê was released in Brazil in the fall of
2006.)
Brazilian Nites Productions was created to increase the awareness of Brazilian culture,
music, art and dance in quality productions in Southern California. Brazilian Nites Productions has successfully
promoted and produced events since 1989 in Los Angeles County and has been
working and growing in cooperation with the Los Angeles County Arts Commission
for the past 14 years. A scroll from the County of Los Angeles was awarded to
them for being the leading producers of
Brazilian artists and culture in Southern California. Some of the artists who have been part of these events are;
Caetano Veloso, Flora Purim & Airto Moreira, Dori Caymi, Geraldo Azevedo,
Tribute to Maestro Moacir Santos, Gal Costa, Olodum, Djavan, Moraes Moreira,
Elba Ramalho, Maria Rita, Daniela Mercury, Beth Carvalho among others. Brazilian Nites Productions is headed by
Patricia and Gilberto Leao of Burbank.
This event is
co-sponsored by KCRW, LA Weekly,
ListenClothing.com, Brasil Best, BrasPrint, O.N.E. Coconut Water, Remo Inc.,
Brazil Today, Ilumination, Latin Eyes, Flavor Pill & Hollywood Weekly.
The Pasadena Civic Auditorium is located at 300 E. Green
Street, in historical Old Town Pasadena.
Date: Wednesday, November 14 at
8:00 PM
Place: Pasadena Civic Auditorium - 300 E. Green St,
Pasadena, CA 91101
Price: $88, $68, $58, $48, $38
Pasadena Civic
Audtorium Box Office:
Box Office Numbers - 626-449-7360 phone; 626-395-7132 fax
Box Office Hours - Monday - Friday
12noon - 6:00pm, open evenings and weekends of events
Or at Ticketmaster by calling 213-365-3500 or 714-740-7878 or at www.ticketmaster.com
For photos,
videos, interviews with the artist, and information,Contact Rochelle Fabb –
Loud Mouth Productions – loudmouthpr@yahoo.com, 310-699-8839 (not
for publication) OR Patricia Leao / shows@BrazilianNites.com ###