Following up yesterday's post about Brazilian music legend Tom Zé, here's a mini-documentary about him by David Byrne's record label Luaka Bop. Words aren't really necessary because the video really explains things quite succinctly.
Words aren't necessary, but maybe some music is. Aquarama is an Italian band formed in 2017. Here they are covering two tracks, Toc and Ma, from Zé's 1975 album, Estudando do Samba. The fidelity to the source material is amazing, down to the use of an old mechanical typewriter to capture a specific beat in Toc.
This music still lives! As a point of reference, here's Tom Zé himself performing Toc in 2013, and even he didn't use the typewriter from the studio recording in his live version, although the brilliant drummer, Rogério Bastos, performs a most unusual - and most Zé - solo.
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