专辑简介

Chico Buarque de Hollanda, a songwriter for the ages, a composer/lyricist whose songs settle into your memory as if you yourself had been part of the story they tell. Chico started writing songs in the mid-60s. Why he has had to wait this long for a translator, I don't know, but I'm glad the task has somehow found its way to me. Over four hundred songs now comprise Chico Buarque's ongoing work. His music resonates well past his country's borders into American jazz, Brazilian samba, Euro-American pop, theatrical avant-garde, and on and on. If I now nudge it into the universe of our language, it is only because I can't let a lodestone of such power and beauty go unreported. So here you have it: eight songs by Brazil's Chico Buarque with new English lyrics: The Chico Buarque Project, Volume I. Welcome.