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Seu Jorge's new album, "Cru," is the antithesis of funk. Guided almost solely by Seu Jorge's low, smoky voice, his simple guitar arrangements and the occasion al percussion, the album is like quiet, slow moving cloud of mu sic. There may be electronic bursts here and an up-tempo rocker there, but for the most part, the songs of "Cru" float one into the other, broken up only by a second or two of silence be tween each track.
This comparison may strike some as crude, but in some ways Seu Jorge is reminiscent of the late Haitian pop artist Jean- Michel Basquiat. Although Seu Jorge's music is sedate and Basquiat's paintings are manic, both approached the public with the ruffled suave of a crumpled suit. Both also claimed in inter views not to make intellectual art. Appropriately, "Cru" also means raw in English.
Yet both are most popular with the college-educated coffee house crowd who feel their art is evocative because it is so ground ed in simplicity.
Lastly, like Basquiat, Seu Jorge is also seen as a political artist. Maybe. On a song deep in "Cru," he repeats the line, "A favela uma problema social." Translation: A favela is a social problem. Looks like everyone feels the same way, despite the musical differences.
11/04/05
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