Grande Liquidacao [Import]

Tom Ze | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 23, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00005079R
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #663,492 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. São São Paulo

2. Não Buzine Wue Eu Estou Paquerando

3. Namorinho de Portão

4. Catecismo, Creme Dental E Eu

5. Curso Intensivo de Boas Maneriras

6. Gloria

7. Camelo

8. Profissão Ladrão

9. Sem Entrada E Sem Mais Nada

10. Parque Industrial

11. Quero Sambar Meu Bem

12. Sabor de Burrice

Editorial Reviews

Review

Oddball pop songs that make you want to laugh
and cry. --Rolling Stone

In Brazilian popular music, he is the closest thing
to math rock. --Jon Pareles, New York Times

There s nobody like Tom Zé ... he uses his country s
popular music as holy writ, blank slate, and cudgel;
around it, he plays interrogator, holy fool, historian,
and sweet melodist. --Ben Ratliff, New York Times --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Product Description

In 1968, Tom Zé moved from Salvador, Bahia to
São Paulo, where he hung out and wrote with his
friends Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. Although
initially part of the Tropicalia movement, he was
determined to forge his own musical path.
He started by recording hyperactive pop album
Grande Liquidaç¯ao, backed by two incredible psych
rock bands: Os Brazoes and Os Versateis. The
material heard on this album includes traditional
Brazilian Tropicalia laced with crazy vocal melodies
and samples from multitude of genres from
funk to psych rock and bossa nova creating a
sort of unheard pop exotica. This is especially
apparent on the track Gloria, with its changing
tempos, bubbling instrumentation, and off-the-wall
harmonies. The album also includes the fantastic
Parque Industrial, later recorded by Gal Costa,
Gilberto Gil, and Caetano Veloso on the Tropicalia:
Panis et Circenses album. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tom Ze's first album, from 1968, January 10, 2002

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This review is from: Grande Liquidacao (Audio CD)

A remarkably cluttered, hyperactive pop album, which takes a little time out from the clanging bells and swelling choruses for Ze to go off on a few typically nutty digressions. I couldn't tell offhand whether Brazilian psychedelisters Os Mutantes back him on this album, but I would not be at all surprised if I found out they did. Even for folks who are fans already, this disc may take a little settling into, but it does grow on you. Also, the liner notes to the recent CD reissue has a nice (Portuguese language) essay about Ze and his avantnik philospohies of tropicalia, poetry, and art.