Fabrication Defect

Tom Ze is known as a "mad genius", a Brazilian musician with an unhinged style that verges on schizophrenic. Ze's music has always had a strong element of collage, layering sounds, rhythm and harmony in a visionary, rebellious musical architecture. Against a background ranging from guitar-string plinks to a rich carpet of samba, Ze piles on vocals, percussion, brass, guitar, bottles, and various other noises. At one point, Ze himself is credited in the liner notes with playing "rubber balloon on tooth".
FABRICATION DEFECT, Ze's third album, is true to his particular, peculiar blend of the technological and the organic, with an underlying message honouring the "defects" of human genetics which prevent us from being "androids". Within its unusual musical contexts--which ranges from traditional Brazilian rhythms to not much more than thumping noises--FABRICATION DEFECT is a celebration of the "dangerous defects" which cause common people to "think, dance, and dream".|