Caetano Veloso (1969 album)

Infobox Album
Name = Caetano Veloso
Type = Album
Artist = Caetano Veloso


Released = 1969
Genre = Tropicália
Length = 41:55
Label = Philips
Producer = Rogério Duprat
Reviews =
Last album = Caetano Veloso (1968)
This album = Caetano Veloso (1969)
Next album = Caetano Veloso (1971)

"Caetano Veloso" (a.k.a. "Álbum Branco", which means "White Album", in Portuguese) is an album released in Brazil in 1969, being the third album by Caetano Veloso, his second solo. It is considered by many one of Veloso's best, and one that represents Tropicália.

The album vocals and acoustic guitars were recorded in a small recording studio in Salvador, where Veloso was confined for defying the authoritarian Brazilian government of the time, after spent some time arrested in Rio de Janeiro. He recorded the vocals, and Gilberto Gil the acoustic guitar, which were sent to arranger and producer Rogério Duprat, who added layers of electric guitars, horns, bass, drums and other instruments in a more professional studio in São Paulo.

The album, like his predecessor, is very eclectic (a characteristic of the Tropicália movement), with songs that vary from Bossa Nova, Psychedelic rock, Carnival music, traditional Bahian music, Fado, Tango, and others. It has songs in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. It has some of his most famous songs, like "Irene", "Atrás do Trio Elétrico", and "Não Identificado".

Track listing

# "Irene" (Caetano Veloso) - 3:48
# "The Empty Boat" (Capinan/Caetano Veloso) - 4:15
# "Marinheiro Só" (Folklore; author unknown) - 3:29
# "Lost in the Paradise" (Caetano Veloso) - 3:27
# "Atrás do Trio Elétrico" (Caetano Veloso) - 2:45
# "Os Argonautas" (Caetano Veloso) - 2:47
# "Carolina" (Chico Buarque) - 2:38
# "Cambalache" (Enrique Santos Discépolo) - 2:31
# "Não Identificado" (Caetano Veloso) - 4:03
# "Chuvas de Verão" (Fernando Lobo) - 2:51
# "Acrilírico" (Rogério Duarte/Rogério Duprat/Caetano Veloso) - 3:01
# "Alfômega" (Gilberto Gil) - 5:58

Trivia

In the 2002 film Durval Discos, rock singer Rita Lee has a brief cameo as an eccentric costumer in a vinyl store who buys Caetano's White Album but forgets to take it with her.