This is a recording of Caetano Veloso's concert performed in Rimini at behest of Fondazione Fellini, and the performance is dedicated to Giulietta Masina and Federico Fellini. Hence the multifaceted content of the album. There are Nino Rota tunes from Fellini's films (listen, for example, to the gorgeous 'Que Nao se Vé, with Portuguese lyrics by Caetano), Brazialian tunes somehow connected with Caetano's perception of cinema and Fellini's films(both by Caetano & others), an Irving Berlin tune 'Ginger e Fred'(Caetano's English pronunciation lets him down a bit but who cares?) and a traditional Portuguese song 'Coimbra' which Caetano sings in European Portuguese,(and which exemplifies rather effectively the differences in pronunciation of Brazialian and Portuguese, in case you're interested). The five-piece band (consisting of Caetano, Jaques Morelenbaum, Luiz Brasil, Jorge Helder and Carlos Balla) sounds wonderful. I bought this album together with Prenda Minha live album, and these two albums exemplify beautifully what Caetano's ingenuity is all about; the sombre and quiet, rather European-sounding 'Omaggio' and the more upbeat (even though it too has its quiet moments) & very Brazilian 'Prenda Minha' are taken together a brilliant exemplification of Tropicalismo in practice. Variety and mixing of styles and influences but everything in essential connection with the whole, and isn't that one of the traditional definitions of true art. Thank God for Caetano. As long as he makes music, we are not going to run out of beautiful thigs.

Caetano Veloso continues to astound, this time with a stately, mature album dedicated to Federico Fellini. This concert performance, recorded in Rome, features Veloso at his most cosmopolitan and suave, singing in Italian, English and Portuguese, addressing the crowd in Italian, and dreamily crooning his way through a primarily-acoustic set of his own hits, a few by Italian composer Nino Rota, and even a Cole Porter tune. For those of us who have heard Veloso's other recent releases, and thought, "good lord, how could he get any better? " comes this jaw-dropping answer. Yummy stuff.

I'm an italian fan of Caetano and i was surprised and moved when i discovered his passion for italian filmakers and for F. Fellini, whom I adore. This album is completely worth the great artist to which it is dedicated and it's incredible how artists who come from so different cultural background end by rejoining through poetry. Caetano's italian is lovely, but his neapolitan (Luna rossa) is absolutely delightful! Maybe it's not my favorite album by Caetano, but it's subtle melancholy, it's refinement and directness make it necessary to all the fans of Caetano (and of Federico).