Brazil Classics 1: Beleza Tropical (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Latin Music  »  Music Popular Brasil
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Label: Luaka Bop
• UPC: 680899000123
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106495870
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #13932 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #109 in Latin Music (See Top 100 Latin Music Bestsellers)
• #5 in Music Popular Brasil (See Top 100 Music Popular Brasil Bestsellers)

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Includes liner notes by David Byrne and Arto Lindsay.

The first in a series of compilation discs put together by David Byrne for his Luaka Bop label, BELEZA TROPICAL attempts to harness a whole musical movement within a single collection. While North America had long succumbed to bossa nova (to the point of its becoming merely a cheesily exotic seduction), the sounds of tropicalismo initially had little impact outside of its native Brazil. Forged in a period of social and political upheaval, the music draws on an enormous variety of musical influences--from traditional Brazilian folk music and street songs to chansons and rock & roll--and reflects the complexity of a culture caught between the expansion of the modern world and the harshness of a repressive dictatorship. And although it's impossible to draw an entire portrait with a single stroke, BELEZA TROPICAL is a suitable introduction to some of the innovators of Brazilian pop, among them Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa, and Caetano Veloso.

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