Tom Zè

Artist- Tom Zè
Album- Estudando a Bossa: Nordeste Plaza
Label- Luaka Bop!
Genre- tropicalia

Brazilian tropicalia from one of the genre’s originators in the 1960’s. Each song is “inspired” by classic bossa nova tracks, as indicated by the back cover. Track “Outra Insensatz, Poe!” features vocal accompaniment in English from David Byrne of the Talking Heads, whose label released this album. I don’t understand Portuguese, but this is still a beautiful melodic album.