Transa is the fourth album by the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, released in 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.
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.
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