Begun in Brazil and finished in New York City, at the height of Brazilian junta's consolidation of power, imposition of martial law and censorship, Matita Perê was an answer to those who thought Jobim had nothing to offer a new generation of musicians. Like the Buddha going under the pipal tree, liberating himself from samsara, attaining enlightenment, opening his eyes, and the world witnessing his true power, so did Tom go into the music of Brazil's ecology, come back transformed, with music more powerful in ways that few could have imagined, and released a record that sounds unlike anything else in his oeuvre or much anyone's else.
Source: FOND/SOUND
