Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist.

Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist.

"A Foreign Sound" is Caetano Veloso's first album sung entirely in English, and it finds the Brazilian artist revisiting 22 moments in America's songwriting history. But this is not simply a collection of stage and screen standards. It goes much further than that. Sure, Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers ("Manhattan"), Cole Porter ("So in Love") and Irving Berlin ("Always"), among others, are very present here. So, too, are Kurt Cobain ("Come As You Are"), David Byrne ("[Nothing But] Flowers") and Stevie Wonder ("If It's Magic"). Depending on the track, Veloso is either backed by a 28-piece orchestra, accompanied by an acoustic guitar or simply singing a cappella. In a timely yet daring move, Veloso does not change the gender in George & Ira Gershwin's "The Man I Love." As for the album's title, which references Bob Dylan's "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," there is absolutely nothing foreign about this wonderfully rich, subtle and adventurous disc.

电影往往因为音乐而增色，而音乐亦往往会随着电影更深入人心。一些平常听来并不经意的曲子，也许因为被巧妙点缀在戏剧的背景中，而一下子让人终生难忘。
好象《西雅图不眠夜》，大明星汤姆.汉克斯饰演的那位正在承受丧妻之痛的建筑师，因无意接受电台访问，而令收音机一头的女记者不知不觉爱上他，展开了一段相约帝国大厦的浪漫情事。其中，路易.阿姆斯壮的歌声就曾伴着男主角共度深宵，猛然间，那把粗砺沙哑的嗓音带着无尽的沧桑烘托出多愁善感的意境，而那首1929年的爵士名曲《Makin\' Mhoopee》也在瞬间焕发出新的生命力，直入人心。
又好象《廊桥遗梦》，一段发生在爱荷华小镇，国家地理杂志摄影师邂逅农妇短暂而永恒的爱情故事，变成如诗般的传奇。酷爱爵士乐的克林.伊士特伍德在执导之余，更为寻找适合电影故事背景的歌曲而乐在其中，结果，由黛娜.华盛顿演唱的那首《Soft Wind》为电影添色不少。这首歌恰如其份地将人带回到那个民风纯朴，悠然平静的年代，让人回味当时的一切美好。
再好象，香港名导王家卫荣获戛纳大奖的《春光乍泄》为呼应剧情，受用南美音乐作背景。巴西歌手卡娜塔诺.费洛索的一曲《白鸽》，于闲适风情中凸现出一份颓废的美感，一下子跃出银幕，让人因剧爱乐。
因为这样的例子实在太多，所以才有了这张名为《爵色影展》的唱片。聪明的唱片公司借着电影曾给人带来的深刻视觉体验，将一首首平时只为寡众所知的爵士佳作潜移默化成人人都能接受的浪漫催情剂，手法实在高明。让这样的音乐存在于您的生活空间，您不知不觉就会走进了银幕，体验着主人公才有的浪漫心境；您不知不觉就会爱上这迷离于“影中人间”的感觉；您或许不知不觉爱上了爵士乐——一种听久了让人上瘾的音乐。
象唱片封套呈现的诱人蜜色，这张唱片中所有曲目几乎都有着浓郁而多彩的音响，甜美而鲜活的录音特质是来自五十年代末、六十年代初的黄金时期，是电子管时代留下的录音珍品。当然，千万别将它当作单纯的发烧片看待，品尝其中绝美的情调才是最重要的。

摘自 1999年4月号《音像世界》“天碟落地”

Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist.

Caetano Emanuel Viana Telles Veloso is a Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and political activist.