This album is very interesting and rich in compositions and arrangements. Is like a trip to Brazilian music from another point of view. Tom Zé mixes different styles of Brazilian music from samba, bossa nova, MPB, through tropicalia (psychedelic music from brazil) to really avant garde sound.
A very unique album.
The edition is nice and sounds great.

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David Keymer

LYRICAL YET ROCKING, GREAT MUSIC, GREAT MESSAGE

2012年2月19日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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Tom Ze, comp, arr, voc, b guit, ficus leaf, whistle; Jair Oliveira, arr, guit, b guit, b, programming, voc; others, voc, misc instruments, incl. percussion.

This is only the second album by Tom Ze' that I have bought so I can hardly claim to be an expert on the music of this prodigiously talented and extraordinarily quirky musician. Ze' has been around since the `60s, when he emerged as one of the founders of Tropicalia, an art and music movement in Brazil that merged art and political expression. Ze's infectious songs hark back to the great days of bossa nova and giants like Jobim and Gilberto. (He even quotes them in his songs.) But his music affiliates just as strongly with rock and with hip hop as it does with samba, whether old or new (or new new). Ze' is the Tom Waits of nova bossa nova, like a Brazilian Michael Franti from the San Francisco based hip hop group, Spearhead. Whatever its resonances, the music Ze' has produced on this album (which was nominated for a Latin Grammy) is both consistently lyrical and intensely rhythmical. (Both are characteristics of the classic bossa nova that preceded and inspired him.)

Estudando o Pagode is a rock-bossa opera-in-process (Ze' hadn't completed it at the time of recording), its theme the systematic persecution and marginalization of women. Freedom to love as one wishes without domination is a persistent theme --one of the prettiest songs on the album, "Elau," is an exchange between two gays at a Gay-Lesbian parade at the Vatican. In "Para La do Para (Out There by Para)", Tom (playing the role of a woman) sings: "What you think/ I know that you think/ That a woman doesn't think/ But she does // What you want/ I know what you want/ That a woman doesn't want/ But she does....."

That's pretty much the message of this intriguing opera: we're all equal, we all think, we all want, men and women both. It is delivered in language that hover between surreal and Da Da-ist, not surprising given Ze's aspiration to poetizing.
But the message is so artfully presented in this delightful work that it comes across to the listener first as music, not propaganda or argument. And of course, since it's sung in Portuguese, the words are largely irrelevant to the listener until the listener has read the libretto. This is just very good pop music by a great musician who also has a great heart.

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Cassinha Cardoso

Um clássico maravilhoso

2022年2月12日にブラジルでレビュー済み

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Quem gosta de ouvir vinil, esse é obrigatório

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Louis I. Jaffe

One of the greats

2013年6月28日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み

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Count me an unabashed fan of this album. Tom Ze, like the slightly younger cadre of artists including Caetano and Gil, is highly eclectic and skilled at many styles including rock. Here he shows his mastery of samba, with dashes of rock, electronica, and exceptional vocals-- often in duo or chorus with female singers.

The libretto is an unstinting exploration of the battle of the sexes and women's struggle for equality. The occasionally ponderous english album notes explain the concept and translate the songs. Understanding only a few words of Portuguese, I can't speak to how well it all works dramatically. What I hear is great singing and playing.

This album has a companion, Estudando a Bossa, also highly recommended.

By the way, Tom Ze was 70 years old when these recordings were done in 2005. You can hear the maturity in his voice; the energy of his music bespeaks a far younger man.

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