Alceu Valença – Millennium (2005)

The album features 20 must-see classics, including "Maracatu", "Cavalo de Pau" and "Tropicana."
Alceu Valença was born in countryside Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is considered the most successful artist in achieving an aesthetic balance between traditional northeastern Brazilian music and a broad range of electronic sounds and effects from pop music. One can find traces of maracatu, coco and "repentes de viola" (improvising fast-paced Brazilian folk music) in most of his songs. Alceu was able to utilize the electric guitar the electric bass, and lately even a synthesizer was added to his broad scope of musical instruments.
Because of that, Alceu was able to recreate Northeastern traditional music, like baião, coco, toada, maracatu, frevo, caboclinhos, embolada and repentes: all sung with a sometimes rock sometimes alternative sounding music background. His music and his themes are intangible, universal and unlimited. However, his aesthetic basis is genuinely Brazilian Northeastern music.


Tracklist


01 Anunciação
02 Tropicana (Morena Tropicana)
03 Como Dois Animais
04 Cintura Fina
05 Anjo Avesso
06 Sol e Chuva
07 Solidão
08 Cavalo de Pau
09 Pelas Ruas Que Andei
10 Maracatu
11 Rouge Carmin
12 Arreio de Prata
13 Cabelo no Pente
14 No Balanço da Canoa
15 Papagaio do Futuro
16 Espelho Cristalino
17 Punhal de Prata
18 Vem, Morena
19 Coração Bobo
20 Na Primeira Manhã



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