Grande Liquidacao PRE-ORDER

Vinyl Format. Championed and largely introduced to American audiences in the late '80s by David Byrne, Tom Ze was initially part of the Tropicalia movement with Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. But he was determined to forge his own path of music. In 1968 Ze started recording his hyperactive pop masterpiece Grande Liquidacao. He was backed by two formidable psych-rock bands, Os Brazoes and Os Versateis, and with them churned traditional Brazilian Tropicalia against crazy vocal melodies and samples, from funk to bossa to the psychedelic. The result was a sort of unheard exotica—which Rolling Stone called "Oddball pop songs that make you want to laugh and cry." Case in point: "Gloria," a bubbling, helter-skelter tune marked by its off-the-wall harmonies.