The legendary musician Tom Zé, the avant-garde conscience of the Brazilian Tropicália movement of the 1960s, presents a night of samba and bossa nova reimagined as only he knows how to do.
An audacious innovator whose records created captivating experimental alliances between rock, folk, electronic music, and found sounds. Zé fell into obscurity until the 1990s when he was rediscovered by David Byrne.
Tom Zé began his career alongside Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Maria Bethânia. As a songwriter, he influenced Caetano and many others, delivering an expressive body of work through his own discography. An restless thinker, he was an advocate of experimentation with modern classical music, but has always been ignored by both the industry and the public. He can be best understood through his own definition: “I don’t make art, I make spoken and sung journalism.”
At BAM, he resumes his place in the Brazilian musical firmament, exuberantly channeling the spirit of Salvador and São Paulo with new and old songs.
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