Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Order The Best of Tom Zé: Massive Hits (Brazil Classics 4), compiled by David Byrne: luakabop.lnk.to/tom-ze-massive-hits

“Tom Zé continues to feed off of conflicts in Brazilian life. His music reflects an acute awareness of what is going on. You can hear it without understanding the lyrics. Lyrics which are incredible but which are, in some cases, nonsense syllables, as if even he can find no words better to articulate the swarming influences outside his windows in São Paulo. He is a man from the poor Northeast living in the Big City, looking at it with the eyes and ears of a poet. Both inside it and outside it at the same time. Tom Zé’s is music which gives us hope. Music that finds beauty in strange places.”

-David Byrne

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