Soy Loco por Ti America

Soy Loco por Ti America
Studio album by
Gilberto Gil
Released1987
GenreTropicália, pop
LabelBraziloid/Celluloid[1]
Gilberto Gil chronology
Gilberto Gil em Concerto
(1987) 		Soy Loco por Ti America
(1987) 		Trem Para As Estrelas (Trilha Sonora)
(1987)

Soy Loco por Ti America is an album by the Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil.[2][3] It was released internationally in 1988.[4][5]

Production

The title track was written in the 1960s by Gil and José Carlos Capinam; a cover version first appeared on Caetano Veloso's Caetano Veloso.[6][7] Gil sang in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English.[8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[9]
Robert ChristgauA−[10]
MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[11]
Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10[5]

Robert Christgau deemed the album an "effortlessly funky tour de force," writing that "Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso are aesthetes like, to be kind, Joni Mitchell; Gil is a pop adept like Stevie Wonder."[10] The New York Times wrote that Gil "embraces American grooves from the sambas and Bahian rhythms of his native Brazil to Jamaican reggae, Haitian compas, Puerto Rican salsa and James Brown funk—lending all of them the jauntiness of his band, the earthy directness of his voice and his distinctive melodic lift."[1]

The Washington Post considered Soy Loco por Ti America to be "as sensuous and as rhythmically enticing an example of Gil's 'Tropicalism' as you're likely to find."[2] The Boston Globe praised the "raw sound, pointed lyrics and very sophisticated stylistic blends."[4]

AllMusic called the album "an electric album with plenty of brass attacks," writing that "it is fully danceable yet melodically rich and lyrically expressive."[9]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Aquele Abraço" 
2."Vida" 
3."Mamma" 
4."Soy Loco por Ti America" 
5."Babá Ala Palá" 
6."Jubiabá" 
7."Mar de Copacabana" 
8."Mardi 10 Mars" 

References

  1. ^ a b Pareles, Jon (22 Apr 1988). "Pop Album of the Week". The New York Times. p. C29.
  2. ^ a b Joyce, Mike (20 May 1988). "Brazil's Vibrating New Sound Waves". The Washington Post. p. N25.
  3. ^ a b MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 2000. p. 288.
  4. ^ a b Gonzalez, Fernando (14 Aug 1988). "Time Is Now for Brazilian Music". The Boston Globe. p. A4.
  5. ^ a b Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. p. 414.
  6. ^ Calirman, Claudia (May 28, 2012). Brazilian Art Under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles. Duke University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780822351535. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  7. ^ Weiser, Frans (2021). "A Paradox of Brazilian Counterculture: The Hemispheric Politics of José Agrippino's PanAmérica and As Nações Unidas". Journal of Lusophone Studies. 6 (1): 95.
  8. ^ Duncan, Amy (31 Aug 1988). "Rock/Pop/Jazz". Arts. The Christian Science Monitor.
  9. ^ a b "Soy Loco por Ti America". AllMusic. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  10. ^ a b "Gilberto Gil". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  11. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 281.