Panic Lift

Panic Lift is a Newark, New Jersey industrial band comprising James Francis on vocals, and music; Dan Platt on Guitars and Keyboards; and Ben Tourkantonis on live drums.

Reception

Panic Lift's second album Witness To Our Collapse attracted attention in the German music press, where it was called "a successful disc" with "good songwriting" and "variety", and noted as "definitely worth listening to".

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Tom Zé

Tom Zé (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈtõ ˈzɛ]; born Antônio José Santana Martins, 11 October 1936 in Irará, Bahia, Brazil) 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 by Zé many years earlier, that he returned to performing and releasing new material.

Early life and career

Tom Zé grew up in the small town of Irará, Bahia in the dry sertão region of the country's Northeast. He would later claim that his hometown was "pre-Gutenbergian", as information was primarily transferred through oral communication. As a child, he was influenced by Brazilian musicians such as Luiz Gonzaga and Jackson do Pandeiro. Zé became interested in music by listening to the radio, and moved to the state capital of Salvador to pursue a degree. He later relocated to São Paulo and began his career in popular music there.