Caetano has come to Portugal many times, he has released many albums, he has written many songs, perhaps even more, he himself declared about the moment when he thought he would never compose again. Until the first chords of the first song of this song appeared. my coconut, a 2021 album, the first of the originals in almost a decade and one that brings him back on the road at age 81, possibly for the last time. Afterwards, he says, he wants to return to Bahia “and sing there all week.” But something happens in our hearts every time he crosses Avenida Atlântica. And we would swear it was his too.
On the first of five nights of sold-out concerts in Portugal, the children in the back row ask their mother if Caetano is going to play of the other. others, probably because, at their age, available to absorb the entire universe, each month that passes more or less since the day they moved continents counts as a decade in the development of language. But it is not just the language we share, nor our love for Caetano, despite the generations that separate us; It’s that touching, even much deeper and universal thing, where as children we really think our parents know everything.
Ten or fifteen minutes after the scheduled time, just to give the entire audience time to settle into the narrow seats of the Coliseum, on a much hotter night than the weather warnings would have led us to assume, the legendary Bahian takes the stage. armed with the answers and the last half century of the soundtrack to millions of lives around the world. It begins in João Gilberto and ends in Maria Gadú. In the middle are Gal Costa, Jaques Morelenbaum (the “Jaquinho”), Bethânia (of course), Paul Anka, Doces Bárbaros, A Outra Banda da Terra, Banda Nova and even fado, of which Caetano says he is proud. of having helped the young Portuguese of the 70s to find their way back. We went through all of this: the years of exile, the dictatorships there and here and the democracies, to the perplexity facing the contemporary world and its electronic responses to the problems of flesh, blood and soul.
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Source: Observadora
