Seu Jorge recorded Cru — the word means raw — entirely alone, with just his acoustic guitar and his voice, in a single room in Rio. No overdubs, no band, no production layer. He had just finished filming The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou for Wes Anderson, in which he played David Bowie songs in Portuguese throughout the film. Cru is the antithesis of that film's artifice: utterly stripped and direct. It is one of the most intimate records in Brazilian music.
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