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Extended Analysis

Chico Buarque: Chico - The Definitive Collection 1970 - 1984

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by Chris May

Chico BuarqueChico: The Definitive Collection 1970--1984Wrasse Records2012 Still going strong at 67, Brazilian singer and composer Chico Buarque maintains a release schedule of around an album a year, as well as writing books and scripts for film and stage. In Brazil, Buarque has been a star since the early 1970s, when he was a leading figure in the emerging musica popular brasileira (aka MPB) movement and a courageous critic of the ...

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Album Review

Chico Buarque: Carioca

Read "Carioca" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff

Si potrebbero riassumere le tante anime di Chico Buarque, compositore, cantante, scrittore, in quella di “topografo delle emozioni", metafora ma non troppo, data la sempre maggiore centralità data alla città e ai luoghi nella sua poetica. Dopo le canzoni di As Cidades e il bellissimo romanzo Budapest [che consigliamo vivamente, in Italia è edito da Feltrinelli], il musicista brasiliano prosegue in questa mappatura con un nuovo disco, Carioca, nel quale rivolge il proprio sguardo, critico e intelligente, alla città di ...

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