Tom Zé S/D

the first thing i got was the luaka bop "brazil classics 4 - the best of tom zé". there are great moments with blenders and other sound effects. but it mixes it up w/other great songs.

"Grande Liquidacao" seems to be made before he got into tropicalia and started toying around with experimentation. beautiful songs.

his '98 record (Defeito de Fabricaco) is still great, even though he must be in his 50s or 60s. i saw him perform this at a small radio station in LA with Tortoise as his backing band. he's so small (under 5 feet) and so cute. even though he barely speaks english, he's WAY nicer than those bastards in Tortoise.

i'm usually not really into remix cds, but even his is great. it's called "Postmodern Platos". there are remixes Amon Tobin, the High Llamas, John McEntire, Sasha Frere-Jones, UI and Sean Lennon. there's an amazing track that breaks into the hugest jungle breaks. my only complaint about the cd is that too many of the remixers choose the same song. kinda redundant.

i've been meaning to pick up those double cds for a while. doesn't one of them have the picture of a marble balancing on an asshole? what years are they from, and are they more on the melodic or experimental side?

heh, you really hated living in Chicago, didn't you?

i was totally heartbroken and embarrassed. i had many reasons to move to chicago. my dad grew up there so i had tons of aunts, uncles and cousins that i barely knew. i had lived in the same 5mile radius my entire life and just needed to get the hell out of dodge for a little bit. and lastly, i thought because of my new found love of post rock and other experimental musics from chicago, i thought it too would be a forward thinking, cool city.

too bad it ended up being a conservative, yuppie, white-bread, midwestern city.

and i also brought in the Tropicalia compilation from the box set for Zé to sign (it had a picture of him from the late 60s) and he thought it was funny seeing himself from then.

Save for the midwestern part, your "Chicago" bears little resemblance to the one I've spent nearly my whole life in.

Oh, Tom Ze-excellent, too.

on the other hand, 1992's The Return Of Tom Ze (also on Luaka B) i find mostly quite underwhelming 8-)

i forgot to mention: i moved into a really cheap, 3 bedroom flat for 600$. but it was in wrigleyville. this is why i was biased against the city. also i grew up in LA and chicago just felt so foreign and weird. there were a lot of different racial groups, but they were all in pockets. it didn't really feel like there was much intermingling.

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Get it right now link:
http://www.sonicyouth.com/prmp3/companheiro_bush_-_demo.mp3
--but, as 'demo' indicates, this is handclaps and ac. gtr., giving it a Because I Got High feel.

[trollingness of above comparison unmeant]

Creative avatar?

No, more like, hammerhead shark, or eternal being of light, or sommat.

April 11. The Nave Maria record from 1984 is also coming out soon on cd. It looks like it is going to be a tom ze spring for this dork!

One highlight of my professional life was interviewing Ze on the phone for this show, and then watching him bring a copy of the paper onstage (the one with the article) and begin opening it and closing it rhythmically, rapping "City Pages" a bit, then chanting, "City Pages, City City Pages! City Pages, City City Pages!"

New album out! Concept album about the evolution of the Portuguese language in Brazil - thus Língua Brasileira.

do wish somebody would progress with reissues of his early material. Last thing I heard was you could get his first 2 and the later bunch had slipped back OOP.

Enjoyable album so far. Thanks for this, Daniel Rf - I hadn't thought about him for ages.

do wish somebody would progress with reissues of his early material. Last thing I heard was you could get his first 2 and the later bunch had slipped back OOP.

Yeah, as far as I can tell, those Polysom reissues are oop but Mr Bongo reissued Estudando O Samba on cd/lp a few years back and it's still available (bought it from a physical store in the US last summer) and it's excellent, maybe my favorite of his?

I think they did his first s/t lp, like his 2nd lp but the first one to go simply by his name. Cos I was going to buy it but didn't get around to it. Think he gets weirder in the early 70s. Want to get the one with the marble positioned in an anus on the cover.

Todos os Olhos! it's so great.