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Tom Ze and the end of song

Mauricio Bussab | Sao Paulo, SP Brazil | 06/04/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Tom Ze is turning 70 and fighting the good fight, asking the difficult questions, providing his own complex answers. He is doing the job that composers in Brazil much younger than he is give up before even trying.

This time he tackles the difficult task of answering a question posed by Chico Buarque: "is the song format dead?". He also is concerned and curious about technology and how it invades current music produced there.

This is his way of answering this question: the album has voices but no lyrics, electronic sounds invade the entire record, the songs do not follow common radio formats, they have different moods and moments, are aggressive at times, tender and lyrical at times.

This is a record that could not have been made by anyone else. Exhilarating, inspiring..."