Sol Negro

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Sol Negro
File:Sol Negro album.jpg
Studio album by
Virginia Rodrigues
Released1997
LabelNatasha[1]
Hannibal[2]
ProducerCaetano Veloso, Celso Fonseca
Virginia Rodrigues chronology
Sol Negro
(1997) 		Nós
(2000)

Sol Negro is the debut album by the Brazilian musician Virginia Rodrigues.[3][4] It was released in 1997.[5] The album peaked at No. 7 on Billboard's World Albums chart.[6]

Production

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The album was produced by Caetano Veloso and Celso Fonseca; Veloso had "discovered" the singer at a rehearsal.[3][7] Djavan, Milton Nascimento, and Gilberto Gil contributed to the album.[8][9] The berimbau was used on several tracks.[10] A few songs are tributes to Rodrigues's Candomblé religion.[11]

Rodrigues sang a cappella on "Verônica".[12] "Manhã de Carnaval" is a cover of the Luiz Bonfá song; "Noite de Temporal" is a cover of the Dorival Caymmi song.[13][14] "Adeus Batucada" was made famous by Carmen Miranda.[15]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[16]
Robert ChristgauB−[17]
Edmonton JournalStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[13]
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[18]
MusicHound World: The Essential Album GuideStarStarStarStarStar[19]

JazzTimes wrote that "Rodrigues’s contralto voice is otherwordly, spiritual, exquisite."[12] Robert Christgau noted that she "never stretches her rich, Ella-like highs into a scat—though the few midtempo numbers have a nice jazzy lilt ... her instincts are exceedingly solemn."[17] Rolling Stone stated: "The ancient and the modern, the secular and the sacred seamlessly mingle in this document of Brazilian musical forms."[20]

Miami New Times deemed the album "a simultaneously somber and uplifting cycle of songs focused on the African experience in Brazil."[21] The New York Times concluded that "the record is both modern and roots-conscious in the best ways that Brazilians know how to be: it swings from Roman Catholic church music to carnaval sambas, ancient Afro-Brazilian drum patterns to sophisticated wind-and-string arrangements, all sculpted with delicate care."[22] The Chicago Tribune considered Sol Negro to be the eighth best album of 1998.[23]

AllMusic wrote that Rodrigues's "first major recording succeeds in juxtaposing her ability to carry both lilting Brazilian rhythms and slow harmonious melodies.[16]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Negrume da Noite" 
2."Lua, Lua, Lua, Lua" 
3."Adeus Batucada" 
4."Manhã de Carnaval" 
5."Verônica" 
6."Noite de Temporal" 
7."Terra Seca" 
8."Nobreza" 
9."Sol Negro" 
10."Querubim" 
11."Israfel" 

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