Global Rhythm Magazine Volume xv #4, April 2006

As he approaches his 70th birthday, the Brazilian legend Tom Zé isn’t laying back. In fact he has released one of the most ambitious albums of his storied, four-decades-plus career: the Grammy-nominated three-act operetta, Estudando o Pagode. Quirky and unexpected, it re-introduces the artist who, along with Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and others, led the revolutionary Tropicalia movement in Brazil in the 1960s.