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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
Learn more of the secrets of life at luakabop.com.
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
Learn more of the secrets of life at luakabop.com.
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ORDER BODY & SOUL HERE: https://luakabop.lnk.to/bodyandsoul
ORDER ATOMIC BOMB HERE: https://luakabop.lnk.to/atomicbomb
It was so hard to get our heads around William Onyeabor’s story when we first started working with him. No one knew anything about him and that’s the way he liked it.
Even as we grew to love and respect Mr. Onyeabor (as we called him) we never got the whole picture. And we still know so little.
Now it’s 10 years since releasing Mr. Onyeabor’s records — and its almost what would have been his 79th birthday — so we are releasing two of his magical LPs in COLOR for the first time ever: 1978’s Atomic Bomb in Fission Red and 1980’s Body and Soul in Magic Ministries Blue.")
