― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 4 April 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)
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?
― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 5 April 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)
heh, you really hated living in Chicago, didn't you?
― hstencil, Saturday, 5 April 2003 02:07 (twenty-two years ago)
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.
― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 5 April 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Saturday, 5 April 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 5 April 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Saturday, 5 April 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)
Save for the midwestern part, your "Chicago" bears little resemblance to the one I've spent nearly my whole life in.
― Amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 5 April 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Saturday, 5 April 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, Tom Ze-excellent, too.
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)
on the other hand, 1992's The Return Of Tom Ze (also on Luaka B) i find mostly quite underwhelming 8-)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 5 April 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 5 April 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)
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.
― JasonD (JasonD), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― slutsky (slutsky), Saturday, 5 April 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)
[annoyingness of posting "a acutes" withdrawn]]
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]
― Alan Connor, Jr (Alan Connor, Jr), Sunday, 6 April 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)
Creative avatar?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)
No, more like, hammerhead shark, or eternal being of light, or sommat.
― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― slutsky (slutsky), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 April 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)
― moxie alvarez, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)
― mike powell (mike powell), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)
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!
― moxie alvarez, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)
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!"
― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 23:33 (nineteen years ago)
New album out! Concept album about the evolution of the Portuguese language in Brazil - thus Língua Brasileira.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 30 June 2022 10:38 (two years ago)
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.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 30 June 2022 11:05 (two years ago)
Enjoyable album so far. Thanks for this, Daniel Rf - I hadn't thought about him for ages.
― giraffe, Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:21 (two years ago)
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?
― city worker, Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:45 (two years ago)
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.
― Stevolende, Friday, 1 July 2022 10:18 (two years ago)
Todos os Olhos! it's so great.
― stirmonster, Friday, 1 July 2022 10:53 (two years ago)