Cavalo (album)
album by Rodrigo Amarante
Cavalo is the first solo album of singer Rodrigo Amarante. It was first released September 2013 in Brazil by the record label Som Livre & re-released in May 2014 by the label Easy Sound.
A re-recorded special edition of Cavalo was recently released and re-issued in vinyl and on streaming services.
Background and recording
After the breakup of Los Hermanos in 2007, Amarante began to devote himself to the Orquestra Imperial and the group Little Joy, which he co-founded with Fabrizio Moretti and Binki Shapiro. After the trio's release of their first album in 2008, the band went on tour in Brazil, and by 2009 they had toured globally. Living in Los Angeles, a place where he was unknown, Amarante began to write songs about an "exile", and become reacquainted with his own nature, forming what would become Cavalo. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro in 2012, and contains tracks sung in three different languages: Portuguese, English and French, plus some Japanese verses in the title track. Amarante alone recorded most of the album, which features the participation of former bandmates Rodrigo Barba, Fabrizio Moretti, and Devendra Banhart.
Critical reception
The album received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone magazine placing the album in sixth place in the best national discs of 2013. In a similar list on the site Tenho Mais Discos que Amigos!, Cavalo ranked in fourth position.
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