The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions Featuring Seu Jorge

*This is NOT a comic! But you can listen to it while you read comics!

By Seu Jorge (playing David Bowie). Published by Hollywood Records. 

Audio CD, 2004

Rebel Rebel
Life on Mars?
Starman
Ziggy Stardust
Lady Stardust
Changes
Oh! You Pretty Things
Rock N' Roll Suicide
Suffragette City
Five Years
Queen Bitch
When I Live My Dream
Quicksand
Team Zissou

Raised in the slums of Rio, Brazil, singer/songwriter Seu Jorge used his formidable talent and undeniable charm to great effect in director Wes Anderson's seafaring comedy the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as a guitar strumming deckhand. The catch was that Pele dos Santos only knew how to play Portuguese versions of David Bowie tunes, all 13 of which are featured on Hollywood's Life Aquatic Studio Sessions. Jorge possesses a voice that exudes the same regional comfort as fellow countrymen Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso, and his warm and loose guitar playing matches his timbre, resulting in a batch of covers that retain the original framing of the Bowie classics, while injecting a sunny island sweetness into their very core. While the very idea reeks of kitsch, the end product is surprisingly poignant and agreeable. Even the Thin White Duke himself seems taken with the idea, as he states in Aquatic's liner notes that "Had Seu Jorge not recorded my songs acoustically in Portuguese I would never had heard this new level of beauty which he has imbued them with." ~ James Christopher Monger