World Music:Tom Zé, "Um Um Oh! E Um Ah!"
(Brazil) What kind of impact can you make with really limited means? This video packs a creative wallop with the simplest of tools. Tom Zé is a veteran of the Tropicalist movement of Brazil whose best known exponents are Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. But while we associate those musicians with some highly commercial music these days, Zé has stuck with the movement's original thesis - a kind of musical surrealism with a decidedly political edge. Zé remains its great standard bearer (and an obvious lover of iguanas).
(Brazil) What kind of impact can you make with really limited means? This video packs a creative wallop with the simplest of tools. Tom Zé is a veteran of the Tropicalist movement of Brazil whose best known exponents are Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. But while we associate those musicians with some highly commercial music these days, Zé has stuck with the movement's original thesis - a kind of musical surrealism with a decidedly political edge. Zé remains its great standard bearer (and an obvious lover of iguanas).
