Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon Tracklist
“Onda Sonora” (Sound Wave) is the eleventh entry of Red Hot Benefit Series. With this album, Red Hot Organization continued its focus on music from around the world, particularly South America.
Like many epidemics, AIDS spread along major trade and travel routes. This album also follows the Portuguese travel routes by fusing elements from many cultures.
This project was created along with the 1998 World Expo in Lisbon, Portugal. Funding came from a Portuguese insurance company who approached Red Hot to do something to celebrate the Portuguese diaspora – Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Goa (India) and other places around the globe.
Andres Levin, a music producer who grew up in Latin America, came on board and oversaw the project with Beco Dranoff and Red Hot co-founder, John Carlin. The album featured the first and only collaboration between Caetano Veloso and David Byrne, “Dreamworld”, a song about Carmen Miranda and the shifting identity of Iberian-American culture.
