| Circuladô | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Caetano Veloso |
| Cover: | Circuladô.jpg |
| Released: | 1991 |
| Label: | Elektra/Nonesuch[1] |
| Producer: | Arto Lindsay |
| Prev Title: | Estrangeiro |
| Prev Year: | 1989 |
| Next Title: | Circuladô Vivo |
| Next Year: | 1992 |
Circuladô is an album by the Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso.[2] [3] It was released in 1991. Circuladô was Veloso's third album to be widely distributed in the United States.[4]
The album was produced by Arto Lindsay, who also cowrote "Ela Ela".[5] It was recorded in New York and Rio de Janeiro.[6] "Circuladô de Fulô" was inspired by a Haroldo de Campos poem.[7] Melvin Gibbs played bass on the album; Ryuichi Sakamoto and Gilberto Gil also contributed.
The New York Times praised the "mixture of pointed observation and fatalistic acceptance [that] typifies Mr. Veloso's world view... More than a diarist or a social commentator, at his best he is a true poet."[8] Newsday called "Santa Clara, Padroeira da Televisão" "a stunning, satirical blend of spiritual imagery and media criticism."[6]
The Edmonton Journal wrote that "the music on Circulado takes an impressionistic course that's more quietly experimental, working touches of jazz improvisation among the guitar and percussion lines."[9] The Gazette stated that "there is folk, jazz, samba, bossa nova, new age and funk all rolled into one... Sensuous and seductive, the spirit of tropicalismo is alive and well."[10]
AllMusic wrote that "Itapuã" "is a modern elegy for the beautiful beach, where Veloso is backed by a contemporary arrangement for string quartet and rhythmic section." Stephen Holden, of The New York Times, listed Circuladô as the second best album of 1992.[11]