Boca do Rio

Bio:

Boca do Rio is música orgânica. Live music played live. The music is inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses – it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish. Boca do Rio exists to share and celebrate music and everything that it brings to our lives through the cross-pollination of the Americas. It’s the water that flows from mountains to oceans, from inside to out. It’s the earth beneath our feet, the soil beneath the concrete, the minerals from the stars that grace each of our cells.

Member Since:

April 17, 2006

Members:

Kevin Welch - guitar, lead vocals Jon Evans - bass, vocals Alex Calatayud - percussion Larry De La Cruz - percussion & sax Scott Johnson - drums Jacob Aginsky - keys & laptop

Influences:

Brazilian greats, large and small. Roots music of the African diaspora. American jazz and everything in the nooks and crannies and in between.

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Record Label:

Vagabundo Records