http://calabashmusic.com/New Music From Tom Ze on Calabash Music2008-09-07T03:51:13ZThe Calabash Music Teamsupport@calabashmusic.comEstudando O Pagodehttp://tomze.calabashmusic.com/#album_599212006-12-12T07:40:55ZMusic from Estudando O PagodeSociologists claim that in underdeveloped countries like Brazil, modernization is not a continous process, but one of fits and starts. In the middle of the Amazon jungle, people who have never even seen an electric light before get electricity and television at the same time. These extreme contrasts – between the wilderness and the new world of neon and fast food joints – became the subject of many of the songs of the Brazilian musical movement called Tropicalismo, of which Tom Zé was a member.]]>Fabrication Defecthttp://tomze.calabashmusic.com/#album_67582005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from Fabrication DefectTom Ze is a veteran of the Tropicalist movement of Brazil whose best known exponents are Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. But while we associate those musicians with some highly commercial music these days, Ze has stuck with the movement's original thesis- a kind of musical surrealism with a decidedly political edge. Ze remains its great standard bearer-- His lyrics (provided in translation here courtesy of Trama Records) bristle with anger and wit, while his music retains the eclecticism of classic Tropicalismo.

]]>Jogos De Armar (Fa硠Vocꠍesmo)http://tomze.calabashmusic.com/#album_458912006-11-17T07:12:16ZMusic from Jogos De Armar (Fa硠Vocꠍesmo)Postmodern Brazilian rocker Tom Zé puts odd shaped pieces together in the brilliant  record "Jogos de Armar" (Jigsaw Puzzle). More magic from the Tropicalismo torch bearer!
]]>The Best of Tom Zehttp://tomze.calabashmusic.com/#album_67222005-04-12T10:55:32ZMusic from The Best of Tom Ze"Songs are inside of me, like pearls resting in oysters," -- Tom Ze

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