Transa (album)

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,[1] though he returned to Brazil shortly after completing it.

Transa
Studio album by
Caetano Veloso
Released1972
GenreMPB, tropicália
Length37:13
LabelPolyGram
ProducerRalph Mace
Caetano Veloso chronology
Caetano Veloso
(1971)		 Transa
(1972)		 Caetano e Chico - juntos e ao vivo
(1972)

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]

Caetano calls it "one of my favorite records", feeling that it reaches a level of musicianship he was unable to achieve on previous albums.[3] 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.[4] Its success would set up the failure of the much more unconventional follow-up, Araçá Azul.[3] On August 2016, Pitchfork elected "You Don't Know Me" as the 73rd best song from the seventies. Journalist Kevin Lozano writes:[1]

[in the song] he writes what is probably his purest and most unvarnished expression of the loss he experienced during those years, 'Feel so lonely/The world is spinning around slowly,' he sings. The song floats between Portuguese and English seamlessly, highlighting the essential emotion irrevocably lost in translation. It's a masterpiece of a song that could only be written from the point of a view of an exile.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Caetano Veloso except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."You Don't Know Me"3:50
2."Nine Out of Ten"4:55
3."Triste Bahia" (Caetano Veloso, Gregório de Matos)9:32
Side two
No.TitleLength
4."It's a Long Way"6:05
5."Mora na Filosofia" (Monsueto, Arnaldo Passos)6:16
6."Neolithic Man"4:42
7."Nostalgia (That's What Rock'n Roll Is All About)"1:20

Personnel

Adapted from the book Tropical Truth.[3]

  • Caetano Veloso - guitar, vocals
  • Macalé - guitar, musical direction
  • Moacir Albuquerque - bass
  • Tuti Moreno - percussion
  • Áureo de Sousa - percussion

References
  1. Lozano, Kevin (22 August 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s - Page 7". Pitchfork. Condé Nast. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. Neder, Alvaro. "Transa". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-2-8.
  3. Veloso, Caetano (2002). Tropical Truth. Isabel de Sena (trans.). New York: Knopf. p. 350. ISBN 0-375-40788-X.
  4. "Os 100 maiores discos da música brasileira" (in Portuguese). Umas Linhas. 2007-12-20. Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
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