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Compiled by former Talking Head David Byrne and released in 1989, with liner notes and translations by Arto Lindsay, Beleza Tropical documents a New York hipster's first infatuation with the rich, deep, and varied spectrum of Brazilian popular music from the rebellious '70s. There are better Brazilian anthologies, but none so clearly assembled in order to counter the received opinion of Brazilian music as lightweight bachelor-pad fluff (although Milton Nascimento, with his beautiful high tenor, sometimes comes close). Caetano Veloso (whose magnificent "Terra" is itself worth the price of admission) and Gilberto Gil are
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075992580526 UPC: 075992580526
Release date: 25 October 1990
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075992580526 UPC: 075992580526
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Best albums I've heard (416 music items)