Transa (album)

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

Transa
Studio album by Caetano Veloso
Released	1972
Genre	MPB, tropicália
Length	37:13
Label	PolyGram
Producer	Ralph Mace
Caetano Veloso chronology
Caetano Veloso (1971) Transa (1972) Caetano e Chico - juntos e ao vivo (1972)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

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.

Side one

No.	Title	Length
1.	"You Don't Know Me"	3:50
2.	"Nine Out of Ten"	4:55
3.	"Triste Bahia" (Caetano Veloso, Gregório de Matos)	9:32

Side two

No.	Title	Length
4.	"It's a Long Way"	6:05
5.	"Mora na Filosofia" (Monsueto, Arnaldo Passos)	6:16
6.	"Neolithic Man"	4:42
7.	"Nostalgia (That's What Rock'n Roll Is All About)"	1:20

Personnel

Adapted from the book Tropical Truth.[3]

• Caetano Veloso - guitar, vocals
• Macalé - guitar, musical direction
• Moacir Albuquerque - bass
• Tuti Moreno - percussion
• Áureo de Sousa - percussion

References

1. Lozano, Kevin (22 August 2016). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s - Page 7". Pitchfork. Condé Nast. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
2. Neder, Alvaro. "Transa". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-2-8.
3. Veloso, Caetano (2002). Tropical Truth. Isabel de Sena (trans.). New York: Knopf. p. 350. ISBN 0-375-40788-X.
4. "Os 100 maiores discos da música brasileira" (in Portuguese). Umas Linhas. 2007-12-20. Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-04-20.