Com Defeito de Fabricação
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Fabrication Defect is a concept album
by Tom Zé
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It tells a story in which the people of the third world are turned into androids by the economic exploitation of the first world. However, as "androids", individuals contain "defects": "they think, dance, and dream—things that are very dangerous to the first world bosses...to think will always be considered an effrontery."
This consideration leads to an "Esthetics of Plagiarism" in which the "sonorous civilized trash" and "alphabet of emotions" of the first world, which also invades the everyday life of those in the third, are recycled and "put to use in small 'cells' of 'plagiarized' material," with "all of this put into a rhythmic or dance music format, with choruses, and within the parameters of popular music." Zé compares this aesthetic to arrastão, or dragnet, an urban robbery technique where "A small group fan out and then run furiously through a crowd, taking people's money, jewelry, bags, sometimes even clothes. Translator's note: a type of "wilding
" with a purpose, i.e., robbery."
Concept album
In music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." Commonly, concept albums tend to incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas rather than being improvised or composed in the studio, with all songs contributing...
by Tom Zé
Tom Zé
Tom Zé is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer who was influential in the Tropicália movement of 1960s Brazil. After the peak of the Tropicália period, Zé went into relative obscurity: it was only in the 1990s, when the musician and label head David Byrne discovered an album recorded...
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It tells a story in which the people of the third world are turned into androids by the economic exploitation of the first world. However, as "androids", individuals contain "defects": "they think, dance, and dream—things that are very dangerous to the first world bosses...to think will always be considered an effrontery."
This consideration leads to an "Esthetics of Plagiarism" in which the "sonorous civilized trash" and "alphabet of emotions" of the first world, which also invades the everyday life of those in the third, are recycled and "put to use in small 'cells' of 'plagiarized' material," with "all of this put into a rhythmic or dance music format, with choruses, and within the parameters of popular music." Zé compares this aesthetic to arrastão, or dragnet, an urban robbery technique where "A small group fan out and then run furiously through a crowd, taking people's money, jewelry, bags, sometimes even clothes. Translator's note: a type of "wilding
Wilding
Wilding may refer to:People*Alison Wilding*Barbara Wilding*Dorothy Wilding*Faith Wilding*Mark Wilding*George Wilding*Michael Wilding *Michael Wilding *Peter Wilding*Rav Wilding*Tony WildingFictional characters...
" with a purpose, i.e., robbery."
Track listing
- Defect 1: Gene
- Defect 2: Curiosidade
- Defect 3: Politicar
- Defect 4: Emerê
- Defect 5: O Olho Do Lago
- Defect 6: Esteticar
- Defect 7: Dançar
- Defect 8: ONU, Arma Mortal
- Defect 9: Juventude Javali
- Defect 10: Cedotardar
- Defect 11: Tangolomango
- Defect 12: Valsar
- Defect 13: Burrice
- Defect 14: Xiquexique