Tom Ze - Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé - Brazil LP
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Tom Zé – Brazil Classics 4: The Best Of Tom Zé



Label: Luaka Bop – 6 80899 0003-1-4
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue
New
Country: US
Released: 2011
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Latin, Rock
Style: Bossanova


Tracklist



A1 Mã 3:53
A2 O Riso E A Faca 2:41
A3 Toc 2:59
A4 Tô 2:46
A5 Um "Oh" E Um "Ah" 0:59
A6 Ui! (Você Inventa) 3:01
A7 Cademar 0:45
A8 Só (Solidão) 4:29



B1 Hein? 3:32
B2 Augusta, Angélica, E Consolação 3:43
B3 Dói 3:23
B4 Complexo De Épico 1:17
B5 A Felicidade 3:19
B6 Vai (Menina, Amanhá De Manhá) 2:22
B7 Nave Maria 3:27


Credits
Compiled By – David Byrne



The quirkiest of Brazil's Tropicalistas, Tom Zé managed to evade stardom while keeping faith with the movement's back-to-the-future ideals throughout his career.

This killer collection, assembled by David Byrne from Zé's '70s releases (mostly), is a terrific introduction to an inventive outsider. Zé's toolkit overflows with the funky cocos, forros and sambas de roda of his native Bahia, and he uses the syllabic deconstructions of concrete poetry in the lyrics and Afro-Brazilian rhythms of "Má," "Um 'Oh!' e Um 'Ah!'," and "Hein?"

If the right instrument didn't exist, Zé would concoct it, and one of his homegrown hybrids — employing blenders, vacuum, and a doorbell keyboard — can be heard in "Toc." Zé crooned Antonio Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes's early bossa nova hit "Felicidade" (Happiness) in 1959, but by 1973 he was mocking bossa composers' strained seriousness in "Complexo de Épico" (Epic Complex).


However, Zé could also write pretty himself, as demonstrated by his own gorgeous bossa original "Sã (Solidão)" (Alone (Solitude)) and "Augusta, Angélica e Consolação."


Tom Ze - Hein?





Tom Ze - Toc