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Bat Makumba
Latin / Alternative / Funk

Brazilian music to rock your world!



SAN FRANCISCO, California
United States

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Member Since10/11/2005
Band Websitebatmakumba.com
Band MembersAlex Koberle - Lead Voice, Guitar
Carl Remde - Bass, Voice
Emiliano Benevides - Percussion, Voice
David Gibbs - Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet
Noah Waldman - Drums
Jason Moen - Keyboards
Daren Kennedy - Percussion
InfluencesChico Science, Samba Schools (from the warm sunny street Carnivals of Brazil), Lenine, Brazilian Modernism and Tropicalism art, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Zappa, Serge Gainsbourg, Chico Buarque among many, many others. The Universe is small to our art and influences.
Sounds LikeAn artful mixture of neo-futuristic traditional Brazilian rhythms with the right quantity of the best North American/European spices. Funk and rock boiling and baking with samba, maracatu, frevo and baiao.
Record LabelUnknown Indie
Type of LabelIndie


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The brainchild of Brazilian natives Alex Koberle and Emiliano Benevides and Americano bassist Carl Remde, Bat Makumba is the crossroads between the equatorial beats of Brazil and the punk, rock and funk influences of the U.S. and Europe. Locals to San Francisco, Bat Makumba's show is a hip renegade carnaval party full of tropicalia tinged ska, punk influenced forro, and rock infused samba.

Since their debut in 2000 Bat Makumba have garnered critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base throughout the West Coast. Winners of a California Music Award for Best Latin Alternative Album, Bat Makumba have been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of Five Latin Bands to Watch, winner of an SF Weekly Music Award for Best World Music Band, and their debut album was named one of the Best Records of the Year by the East Bay Express.

Incorporating the varied influences of horn player David Gibbs, keyboardist Jason Moen and drummer Noah Waldman, Bat Makumba's live show brings together an international palette of musicians and instrumentation (including accordion, zabumba, megaphone, clarinet and alfaia). Named after the 70s classic Tropicalia song by Caetano Veloso + Gilberto Gil (popularized by Os Mutantes), "Bat Makumba" loosely translates to mean the mixing of Brazilian traditionalism with international pop culture.

Don't miss this kinetic, percussive music... join the renegade carnaval party that is Bat Makumba!


O encontro de dois Brasileiros e um Norte-Americano, foi o processo catalisador de uma nova era musical nos EUA com a música Brasileira. Vocalista e guitarrista Alex Koberle, percussionista Emiliano Benevides e o baixista Carl Remde conseguriram transformar Bat Makumba, um projeto musical e embrionário no ano 2000, em uma banda de suscesso e carisma na região Oeste dos Estados Unidos. Bat Makumba vem transformando e estabelecendo a nova música do mundo para o mundo.

Em 2004 a banda recebeu do California Music Award o prêmio de Best Latin Alternative Album. Além disso o grupo vem recebendo indicações para prêmios e citações, nos mais diversos meios de comunicação da mídia Norte-Americana, entre elas San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, East Bay Express, LA TV, Globo Internacional, Seattle Weekly, LARitmo, The Latin Beat Magazine, The Beat Magazine entre outras.

O nome Bat Makumba vem da música composta pelos Tropicalistas Caetano Veloso e Gilberto Gil e primeiramente interpretada pelo grupo Paulista Os Mutantes no final dos anos 60. Como no Modernismo em 1922 e o Tropicalismo no começo dos anos 70, a banda procura os elementos naturais que cada um traz individualmente ou em grupo, e de alguma maneira destruí-los e transformá-los, é a antropofagia sendo redescoberta. O barulho e a melodia; o caos e a harmonia estão sempre presentes em esta eclética banda. Maracatú, rock, funk, partido-alto, samba, ska, punk europeu com a porção mágica e carnavelesca do que hà de melhor no hemisfério sul e em nosso Brasil tropical.

Os músicos David Gibbs ( sax/ flauta /clarinete ), Jason Moen ( teclado ) e Noah Waldman ( baterista ) completam o scretch de ouro, a seleção Bat Makumbeira de futebol.
Os shows ao vivo estão sempre cheios, a energia que vem do palco é super contagiante e a atmosfera consegue levar as pessoas em um transe total e prolífero.



GHS Artists Carl Remde and Alex Koberle proudly use GHS Strings.
Emiliano Benevides plays SilverFox Drumsticks, Paiste Cymbals and EspiritoDrums Percussion.


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Mauricio Rodrigues

Mauricio Rodrigues



Oct 28 2009 10:44 AM

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Oct 14 2009 12:20 PM

 

Obrigado por adicionar!

Thanks for the add!

 

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Oct 7 2009 7:06 AM

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Vernate | Rock



Oct 7 2009 12:01 AM

obrigada por add...
iremos colocar mais músicas muito breve..
muito sucesso em sua vida
beijocas
Mauricio Rodrigues

Mauricio Rodrigues



Sep 24 2009 11:25 PM


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Sep 15 2009 2:16 AM

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Sorry for not having been in touch awhile - been rather busy!

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Sep 9 2009 5:23 AM

Hey friend remember us we would like to think you because wit out you we couldn't of gotten so far, we started this account 3years ago and we never would expect to go so far wit the band

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Aug 15 2009 9:02 PM

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Jul 27 2009 11:23 PM

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Silvestre

Silvestre



Jul 22 2009 7:05 AM

Salve Bat Makumba !
Obrigado por me adicionar.
Gosto muito da vossa música.
Meu parabéns !
Ricardo Silvestre a.k.a. Ras Rizzo
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Jul 19 2009 8:17 PM

Field is happiest when you're happy.


Carolina

Carolina Salomé



Jul 18 2009 3:56 PM

Eu que agradeço por me aceitar!
Desejo um infinito de coisas boas e mta luz na caminhada!
BeijOs;
Carol..
César Di

César Di



Jul 17 2009 2:28 PM

Olá Bat!!!
Desculpe pela demora em responder ... que bom que você esta curtindo o som ai !!!
Obrigado pela visita em meu espaço e muito boa sorte pra você !!!
Fique a vontade prá ouvir todas as canções do meu terceiro CD: Ebulição de Idéias, ver os vídeos de shows e tudo que quiser, ta bom?!

O CD tem a participação do Zé Geraldo na música (S.O.S) e tem também uma canção em homenagem ao Maluco Beleza, Raul Seixas (Um Canto Para Raul), Além da música "Essência Oculta" que foi trilha Sonora de um filme do Grande Cineasta Hermano Penna.

Veja vídeo com a música "O Prisma do Teu Olhar":


Grande Abraço.
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Jul 10 2009 4:15 AM

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LAZARO MAX

LAZARO MAX



Jul 5 2009 3:47 AM

Thank you for your friendship
Guess what ? I think we both can make a better world!
Always yours
L.Max

Gracias por tu amistad
Adivina que ? Yo creo que anbos podremos hacer un mundo mejor!!
Siempre tuyo
L.Max
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Jun 17 2009 10:19 PM

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Jun 15 2009 10:06 PM

Valeu galera!
Tamo junto!
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Jun 5 2009 10:47 PM

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Jun 4 2009 3:06 AM

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