Brazilian MPB, Caetano Veloso, Sting, Mighty Diamonds, Aphex Twin, Omar Farouk, Oum Khatoum, Tom Jobim, The Killers, George W. Bush, Neil and lance Armstrong, The Harlem Globetrotters, Arkansas
Sounds Like
Sting chokes on Carmen Miranda's pineapple at a mosque... Björk makes out with Pavorotti in a thong under an umbrella on Copacabana...
Known as a songwriter, instrumentalist, interpreter and improviser, Villas-Bôas uses his passionate yet smooth voice as the primary vehicle of expressing the hidden dimensions within him to listeners. Taking up the guitar at age thirteen, he began to experience music as a means of access to the river of unconscious-supernatural potential present in all phenomenon. The only son of a classical pianist father and Brazilian mother, from birth Andy Villas-Bôas was surrounded with wonderfully diverse music from opera to ragas to samba. Welcome to this unique musical universe!
Come join the celebration over the release of our new CD – Boteco!!
‘Boteco’ is an artful mixture of neo-futuristic traditional Brazilian rhythms with the right quantity of the best North American spices. It is funk and rock boiling and baking with samba, maracatu, frevo and baiao.
Put Pele and Mohammed Ali in a fictional mix machine. Now add Frank Zappa, Sergio Mendes, Tom Jobim and Roger Waters and fused in to one. What a mix eh? Bat Makumba is this fusion, multiplied by 2.
CD Release Parties: 10/31 Someday Lounge – Portland, OR 11/01 Cozmic Pizza – Eugene, OR 11/06 Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA 11/07 The Old Ironsides – Sacramento, CA 11/13 The Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA 11/21 Stage Door – Mount Shasta, CA 12/04 Harp Inn – Costa Mesa, CA 12/05 Santa Monica Bar & Grille – Santa Monica, CA ...more to come
Merry Christmas! This past year I visited the site of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem and the Holy City of Jerusalem, during my Israel journey. I wanted to share these images with my friends who may never have the chance to go, as we remember the Reason for the Season!
Super Sonic Samba School @ Cafe Sevilla When: Sunday Dec 16, 2007 at 9:30 PM Where: Cafe Sevilla (619) 233-5979 555 4th Ave San Diego, CA 92101 United States
Leo will be teaching a Samba dance class at 9:30pm followed by live Brazilian percussions from Super Sonic Samba School. Come and shake the night away with everything you’ve got!!
