South American music and culture magazine

Sebastian Litmanovich has managed to infiltrate the worldwide indie scene more than most under his moniker of Cineplexx. Currently based in London he has collaborated with such indie rock stalwarts as Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits) and Jad Fair, and appeared on the Television Personalities tribute All Those Times We Spent Together.

In 2009 Cineplexx released Nuevahola on the cult record label Cherry Red Records. In 2012 they will release their next release Perfume, an album that will surely carry on the infectious, dreamy pop that they have been mastering for quite some time now. Here is the first video to be released from the album, “Crawl O Mariposa”:

The great people at Si No Puedo Bailar featured another new track from Cineplexx on their recent pick of the 20 Best Songs of 2011, and here it is:

Listen to more Cineplexx at cineplexx.net

A few weeks ago Sounds and Colours received an email from Katia de la Cruz of Moldes, informing us of her new project WiFi Hackers. It took us a little while to get round to listening to the group, with the group releasing a single in the meantime, but we are more than glad we finally got round to it. Continue Reading

In 1992, in the Bar de Dona Edna, in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, the musician and cultural agitator Francisco de Assis França announced to his friends, “I mixed a hip-hop beat with a maracatu groove and it turned out awesome. I’ll call it mangue.” ‘Mangue’ means ‘wetlands,’ a type of landscape common in Recife, where lots of people take their livelihood from, especially catching crab. França, a.k.a. Chico Science, was surrounded by the central figures of a cultural movement that would become the most important engine of innovation in Brazilian popular music for the following 20 years, Mangue Beat. They had a few more beers to discuss the concept, and off they went, for the following months, to write manifestoes in Ecology, Music, Art, and Technology.
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Like every other big city in the world, there is a musicality that oozes from the streets of Buenos Aires. The incessant humming of old, rusty buses trying to make their way through cobbled roads, explosive symphonies of taxi horns alerting pedestrians not to cross a corner, choirs with half-covered faces singing political slogans in the middle of an avenue.
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There is no doubting the influence that samba has on Seu Jorge, it has been present in his solo albums, his covers of David Bowie and now with the Seu Jorge & Almaz album. There is no musical style that is deemed as unequivocally Brazilian, despite the fact it is not even the most popular style in Brazil (that dubious honour goes to Musica Serteneja). It is the image that surrounds this style that sometimes gets Seu Jorge’s goat, as he explains in an interview for Spinner, when asked how he felt about reviving samba:
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Sat 11 Sep / 2pm-2am
Vortex

An authentic Rio party featuring:
- Brazilian Popular Pandeiro (tambourine) workshop with Choro, kabula rhythms, samba carioca, partido alto, with Carlo Alexandre
- Traditional Samba show with Danielly Monteiro
- Churrasco (Carioca barbecue with brazilian meat) plus Caipirinha drink
- DJ Cyril playing Brazilian music for dancing, the best quality: Jorge Ben, Tim Maia, Simonal, Marisa Monte, Teresa Cristina and much more …

Downstairs @ Vortex
11 Gillett Square
London
N16 8AZ
www.vortexdownstairs.co.uk
020 7923 9532

Sat 4 Sep / 7-11pm
St Mary’s Hall, Clapham Common / £12 door / £10 adv / £8.00 students & concessions.

Brazilian Night is an evening of music, dance and prices supporting YWAM Carlisle in raising essential funds for work with some of the most deprived and neglected children living on the streets of Brazil. These are children who know little of the comforts and stability we often take for granted.

Brazilian Night opens with a superb opportunity – everyone is welcome to participate in a Samba dance class, beginning at 7.00 p.m. With the crowd warmed up and a few dance moves learned, our live acts will ensure the sizzling atmosphere continues. Live music from professional Brazilian band Boca Nova, will make the evening go with a swing, and a team of professional dancers will inspire those moves!

As if all that wasn’t enough, there will be a disco for yet more dancing, prize draws, with the opportunity to win some outstanding artwork, plus a bar, where you can unwind with a drink of two!

St Mary’s Hall,
St Alphonsus Road,
Clapham Common,
SW4 7AS
Nearest Tube: Clapham Common

More info:
Contact Madeleine Jones by email or phone – 07706 142 632

ALL proceeds go towards a mission trip to work with street children on behalf of www.ywam-carlisle.org.uk

Sun 15 Aug / 7pm ’til late
Camino / FREE

Molotov Jukebox were founded in a sea of love when singer Nat, who also plays the accordion, met her violin-playing spouse Sam, who through their tour-de-force power performances drew in all the other members of the band to amalgamate into their current state of outlandish, in your face BANG sound. When they play you dance! Their contagious fusion of up-beat reggae, gypsy dance and funk lunacy combine with pop choruses to get any party off the ground in no time.

They will be playing on Sunday 15th August in Camino for free as part of Jungle Drums Sunday Sessions. The band has roots in Spanish flamenco as well as British house, Romainan trumpet sounds married with old school Ska, folk fiddle merged with cacophonic accordion and all topped with the rich and creamy soulful voice that makes the sound of this band so captivating.

More info:
Info on Jungle Drums site

Today, you may think of Gilles Peterson as a DJ. A DJ yes, but he has helped launch the careers of some of the best musical artists of our generation; not to mention the joy he has brought to thousands of beat hungry ravers back in the 90’s, bopping out to Gilles’ perfect tunes.

It is with his love of music and his quest for the perfect beat, that the music of Havana took centre stage. During his time in Latin America, Gilles wound up meeting some very gifted musicians indeed and with no further a due, he assembled his new Cuban kids on the block and began recording Gilles Peterson Presents: Havana Cultura.
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This is a very exciting day as Mamushka Dogs, one of our favourite record labels in Argentina, have gracefully agreed to send us a mixtape of some of the best songs from their label. For anyone unfamiliar to Mamushka Dogs they are your primary source for the most innovative and fresh bands coming out of Argentina, a litmus test for the Argentine indie scene, like a latino Fierce Panda. As well as releasing the first release by A Banda de Turistas (who we interviewed here, and who are going on to big things) they have released records by some of our favourite Argentinians including Go-Neko!, Diosque and Prietto Viaja Al Cosmos Con Mariano. These are bands influenced by Krautrock, Jesus and the Mary Chain, The Pastels, Os Mutantes, folktronica and countless other styles a million miles away from the images of tango and gauchos (cowboys) that Argentina are normally packaged with.
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