Release Date: 16 February 2024
Label: Elemental Music
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8435395503898
Release Date: 16 February 2024
Label: Elemental Music
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8435395503898
Description
One of the most celebrated and emblematic LPs of Brazilian music, 'Todos Os Olhos' is an album in which Tom Ze presented an alternative way of fighting his country's military dictatorship.
Special limited gatefold edition on 180g premium vinyl.
Tom Ze is considered the most iconic voice of all Tropicalistas - Brazil's artistic movement that arose in the late 1960s. He came from Bahia, but his wry urban poetry, infused with the sounds of the largest metropolis of South America, is pure Sao Paulo.
Five of the songs from this album were in included on Brazil Classics Vol.40 - The Best of Tom Ze, compiled by David Byrne and released on Luaka Bop in 1990.
"This was the record that took me out of circulation, explained Tom Zé. "Until then I was played on the radio." However, he admitted that "This album is something so joyful that I've done, that I don't even know how to explain. It was the best thing I've accomplished after years of incomprehensible lack of motivation. I noticed that my heart could stand being unpopular, and this conviction spread comfortably inside me. This record had the faculty of bringing back my internal joy. It has brought back the joy of singing, of making music, of creating, of accomplishing."
Tracklisting
Cannonball Adderley
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy
Arthur Lee
Woody Shaw
Bill Charlap
Al Cohn & Dexter Gordon
Tom Ze
Tom Ze
Tom Zé
Tom Ze