Los Stroboscopious Luminous are my band, all my friends who leave their own bands sometimes to come and be a band with me.
lately the more present are:
Samuel Deschamps and Louis Maynard from La Shark Kristian Craig Robinson from CapitolK/Me Tarzan, You Jane! Jacob Tielmans from A.Human
Fernando Catatau, Ryan and Clayton from Cidadao Instigado
Pupilo from Naçao Zumbi
Kenichi Iwasa from Chrome Hoof
Rick Castro, F.Kawallys and Rodrigo Garcia Dutra on the visual vibes (AVAF, FUR, ABRAVANA)
MANAGEMENT: SIMON GUZYLACK ..... simon.guzylack@gmail.com
PARA O BRASIL: CRIA.LAB , email : paulo@crialab.com.br
http://twitter.com/cibellecibelle
PASSE: A Vida Amando Feroz:
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SETTING UP THE STAGE
and elsewhere , sometimes in, sometimes not, but always in trios : jamie morrison, kenichi iwasa, simon ribchester, jacob smedegaard, vladimiro carboni, quist, gautier, dev hynes, josh weller, bartolo, pupilo, apollo9, fernando catatau, curumim, ,kristian craig robinson and rick castro for the panebodis and visuals combined by fabio gurjao (backdrop and art) and rodrigo garcia dutra video (all colab with www.fur.uk.com and AVAF)...
VISIT OUR COLLECTIVE ART-ZINE AT FUR.UK.COM, CLICK ON THE ZEBRA BELLOW:
in the recordings for "the shine..." : serafina steer, spleen, apollo9, mike lindsay of tunng, pupilo of nacao zumbi, seu jorge, fefe gurman, benoit juilliard, devendra banhart, kristian criag robinson of capitolk and felipe pagani.
in current recording of whatever this next album will be called, so far : simon ribchester, jacob smedegaard, johny flynn, josh weller, kristian craig robinson, owen clarke, gabriel stebbing, damian taylor, adem ilham ....
...i am now, finally drawing in sounds and words together, to chop, paint, and glue again, for the new album.
let it all bounce and kick. slippery slip. swing the waltz baby, swing....
left to right Simon, Dev, me, Chris at the Worried Noodles night @ the Scala in London
Dear Everybody, i'm sorry for not answering all the messages and comments ,i love reading them all and i keep them in my heart with a big smile, thank you so much for showing your love like this, and keeping me warm, it makes my day :)
enormous waves of love to you!
Belle
"Tropical Punk Abravanado da Silva Explode Coraçao da Sonja Khalecallon do Mar Aberto Olho Transparente e Corpo Fechado Pra o Que Nao Serve Rebate a Craca Recebe o Amor Arreia a Saia Meu Bem Pinta a Cara e Vai" music style baby, lick my eye and kiss my sampler.
Here we go.
i never really had a proper bio here... never wrote one for real.
will attempt now.
i grew up in Sao Paulo listening to Technotronic, Mettalica, A-ha, INXS, Menudo, New Kids on the Block, Alice in Chains, The Ronettes, The soundtrack to Alien, a miscelaneous compilation on 50's rockn'roll, Rita Lee, Patrick Hernadez ( Born to be Alive), Richard Clayderman (it was in my dentist's waiting room. i wore braces for years), Africa Bambata, Faith No More, Alice in Chains, Live, Litz, Chopin, Bach, Bela Bartok, Looney Toons, Coleçao Disquinho, Naçao Zumbi, Legiao Urbana, Caetano Veloso, Tom Ze, Gal Costa, Dolores Duran, Tom Jobim, Edu Lobo, Joao Gilberto, Dorival Caymi, Mutantes, Balkan music, the Czardas, and countless afternoons at the municipal thetre watching random orchestras and string quartets, then trying to be a b-girl aged 14 dancing and spinning on the floor un-succesfuly... bla bla bla. etc, and i KNOW, someone will copy and paste this bit as it being my main musical influences on some release somewhere AND, it will look hilarious.
oh, i and i have a theory that is, anything you've been listening to since you were a baby until the age of 15 will be your main influences anyways. weird fish, huh?
to confuse furthermore, this is some of the stuff i dj and listen to the most, which, without a doubt, will end up, or have ended up in some album, somewhere, sometime: Balhead Growler, Mighty Sparrow, Yma Suman, Rita Pavone, Brigite Bardot, Roberto Carlos, Erasmo Carlos, Dj Malboro, Deise Tigrona, Palhaço Carequinha, Os Saltinbancos, Cidadao Instigado, Jupiter Maça, Dirty Projectors, The Tiger Lillies, Nora Dean ..... and everyone on my top friends ... also on my top friends, there is my side project with Kristian Craig Robinson (aka CapitolK), we're called "Me Tarzan, You Jane!" and there i basically play synths and sing a tiny little bit, that ends up juicing me up as well ....
sorry, i have the attention span of a flee.
yes, biog ..
mmm .
yes, i studied everything you can find in a conservatory during a childhood in a music school, the norm, you play acoustic guitar, recorder, then moved onto piano and tried gatecrashing the synth class, but i wasn't allowed to play those thingybops until after completing 6 years of classical piano. erm. mm. when they were not looking, i was in there fiddling.
oh, there was percussion too. obviously.
that conservatory was part of an arts university, and the art rooms were not that hard to find, neither was the theatre bit. i used to hang out amongst the left overs from student's sculptures and keep bits to make things with by adding the bits to the clay my mother would buy me and paint it. furthermore, i'd try to sell those things, and bad watercolors to the poor people that encountered me, a skinny 12 year old with a metallic braces smile in the hallway of our building block, which i had designated as "my gallery".
i had been int he conservatory since age 5ishh... 6 , sort of.
By the age of 14, i left, and decided to play volleyball, hang out in the streets of vila mariana hood style, play truco, smoke cigarettes in the locker room of the volleyball gym, and then eat fandangos to cover it up. ew. no music playing then, i'm afraid, just a lot of dancing, theatre and voleyball.... well. a fair bit of singing walking on the beach of santos in the middle of carnaval, when for the first time ever, an "unwritten" song came into my mind. what a weird feeling. could i? can i? should i? wr..r.... r..... it....te? am, am.. a a a am, i singing?
frgot about it and stuck with acting.
till when i was about 16 boyfriend told me that if i didn't stop singing like that, he was going to have to "produce" me.
he was a music producer, but i had no idea of what exactly that was by then, you see ...
but that sparked something...
was i... should i... oh.. i like this.
next boyfriend was a pianist, from a family of musicians, and, it was at his house, that i truly started singing, then time flew, my love for music kidnapped me.
i was singing everywhere, in casting calls, awaiting for my cue to film, in the bathroom, in bank cues, in vans, kitchens, becoming my friend's personal jukebox (i still am).
the deal is, after singing the same songs a zillion times the same way, i started having ideas, and i wanted to change the way they sounded, the way they felt, so i had to do something.
production bug got me. by then i knew what a producer was, unlike when i was 16.
now that was going to be me.
met Suba, and he picked me up, and stuck me inside his wing and said : look at all this gear, soon you'll be controlling all of this, first we go on tour, and while i record you, you pay attention. so i did.
suba pasted away, and i met Apollo Nove, he was my first production/writting love, we don't even have to talk, we just get together and play, like building blocks of sonic gue, we jam, record, overdub, and chop, then chop again, the record on top, and it can get endeless. eventually we stop, and we feel the track is done. boy, i miss him. He's in Sao Paulo, so i don't get to see him as often.
I miss that studio, and miss sitting with Adriano, at a pre-CSS time, sipping weak coffee and talking about nothings and everythings. Well, Adriano lives here in london now, that's nice.
sorry, back to focus.
Yes, i moved to london, and started touring, bought myself a vocoder and started using two microphones live, using long feedback and distant delays, i could" sort of" sample myself, but i t only lasted "that long". Around this time i met Mike Lindsay, on a pre-Tunng moment, and started making music as well.
while touring, my pedal obsession started to swell, i saw Son of Dave with an Akai Headrush, and though: that's what i need, went and got an RC-20.
sorry about the geeky talk, these are sample pedals. Then i saw Mathew Herbert with his Orquestra, live processing and sampling, my mind was spinning, i had to find a way, then to make me melt even further, i saw Jamie Lidell, pre-Multiply, and, like a child says "i'm gonna be an astronaut when i grow up", i thought " ahhh, i wanna be like that dude when i grow up".
Eventually, i ended up with 30 kilos of gear that amount to a mixing desk, a KP2, and RC-50, VX-400, and a bunch of other toys and guitar stuff that i use to build up the tracks live and sing on them, finally. oh, face paint, and glitter as well.
i still paint, make things, explode, scatter them, then glue them back together and call it art, but my other me that does it. check "her" out.
ah.
there you go.
then i chopped some stuff i've found on the web, just like most people do. here :
Cibelle works by building tracks live on stage, welcoming special guests and inviting the audience to contribute to her ”bric-a-brac DIY” sound through sweet vocals, creative playfulness and lots of instrumental experimentation.
Her new single White Hair, released in September and also available at her shows, features remixes from Canada’s No Kids and London producer Kwes.
Her last album, The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves, released in the UK in 2007, received glowing reviews and featured guest appearances from Seu Jorge, Devendra Banhart and CocoRosie collaborator Spleen, while Tunng’s Mike Lindsay and Air’s Yann Arnaud co-produced.
As one of Dalston’s Supine Studio’s artist collective, Cibelle’s peers include Lightspeed Champion, Johnny Flynn, Emmy the Great, Barbarossa and Josh Weller.
She is also a pioneer of Rick Castro’s Abranavista Movement – a new wave of artists celebrating moments of freedom, explosion and colour originating in São Paulo, part of the AVAF artist collective, and fur.uk.com.
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DIRECTED BY: GUS GUIMARAES and ADAMS CARVALHO
LONDON LONDON , DIRECTED BY TOM HAINES :
WHITE HAIR 7" SINGLE IS FINALLY UP FOR GRABS, CLICK ON THE SLEEVE TO PRE-ORDER
O VINIL BRANCO DA FAIXA WHITE HAIR +REMIXES JA ESTA DISPONIVEL PARA COMPRAR ONLINE, EM VINIL OU DOWNLOAD. CLIQUE NA ARTE DA CAPA PARA IR A LOJA
YOU CAN BUY HARD COPIES OF ALL ALBUMS BY CIBELLE ,DOWNLOADS AND OTHER MERCH BY CLICKING ON THE ALBUM COVER : ..
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Cibelle, Barden's Boudoir, London
i am also part of an amazing project together with The Real Tuesday Weld, David Piper and Reality Films . better than having me explain it in words, you can watch this video of the backstage and bits of our peformance at the Tate Modern London, last year, in the Turbine Hall
A paulistana Cibelle Cavalli se inclui na seleta safra de cantoras nacionais que já alcançaram reconhecimento no exterior mas cujo nome ainda é pouco familiar aos ouvidos brasileiros. com endereço em Londres e viajando pelo mundo desde 2002, a bela cantora e compositora é também multi-instrumentista e produtora, característica que se faz notar em seus discos e apresentações. Seu cd de estréia, de 2003, batizado apenas com o próprio nome, foi elogiado pelo jornal britânico ‘The Independent’ como “simultaneamente sem igual na Terra e a tudo o que você já ouviu antes”.
A música de Cibelle é reflexo de sua vida nomade ,ela trabalha organicamente com a musica em jam sessions gravadas que depois sao esculpidas no estudio para para tomar o formato de cançao , instpirada pelo produtor Suba, responsável por sua estréia em disco – no projeto ‘São Paulo Confessions’. Cibelle nao se prende a etiquetas sonoras e trabalha independente com a musica sem se prender em sonoridades especificas, utilizando desde instrumetos mais comuns como guitarras e pianos, como qualquer outro objeto ou briquedo , aleatoriamente . Cibelle é tambem colaboradora de artistas plasticos como David Shrigley (escocia) ,Doug Aitken (usa) ,Rick Castro (brasil), e trabalha com musica do ponto de vista de um artista plastico brincando com os sons como se fossem cores e sampleando ao vivo os instrumentos para compor as texturas sonoras, compondo colagens. Cibelle emprestou sua voz doce e cristalina à compilação ‘The new sound of Brazil2’, ao lado de nomes como Bebel Gilberto, Celso Fonseca,Trio Mocotó, Bossacucanova e DJ Dolores, e tambem a compilacao de colaboraçoes com DAvid Shrigley, ao lado de FRanz Ferdinand, Hot Chip, Grizzly Bear, Final Fantasy entre outros. Seu segundo disco de carreira, ‘The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves’, foi lançado no ano passado, e convidada por David Byrne, em fevereiro de 2007 ela se apresentou ao lado de seus amigos e colaboradores Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie, Vetiver, Vashti Bunyan e Adem no mitico Carnegie Hall em NY representando a nova safra da musica mundial.
CIBELLE • "The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves"
press quotes
"Haunted, cut-up, serenely twinkling electro-acoustic folk-pop… This is my ideal sound and you need to hear it now because then it will be your ideal sound too" (Pop Matters, USA)
"Each song is a joyous little daydream…It's chock full of goodness… Traversing the globe with charming agility, Cibelle gives us one more reason not to roll our eyes at chameleonic songstresses" (Stylus, USA)
"A sophisticated trilingual pop record, spinning twitchy electronics, American freak-folk and Brazilian traditions into a glittering tableau. All the more radiant for their partial construction, Cibelle's songs are marked by a billowing drift, with pliant, meandering melodies and progressions that seem less linear than mutational, evolving toward realization by gradual degrees" (Pitchfork, USA)
"Innovating on old-world beauty. Cibelle crafts tunes that tell stories embellished by an instrumentation that won't disappoint. Her approach to song construction reminds me of The Books and Psapp" (Aurgasm, USA)
"A delightful surprise to those who enjoy their music heady as well as luscious, and with a literate, worldly edge" (All Music Guide, USA)
"She's a canny pop amalgamator, experimenting with soundscapes but never forgetting about tunes… Even when her music is most borderless and surreal, she never sounds disoriented. She navigates with a melodic grace that's purely Brazilian" (The New York Times, USA)
"A playfully trippy excursion full of unexpected twists. She infuses her songs and performances with a sense of discovery" (The Boston Globe, USA)
"She's found the recipe for delicate and tasty music which blend songwriting and cutting-edge wizardry… A rich palette of colours and heady perfumes. Gifted with sensitive and powerful antennaes, she transforms all the informations which she absorbs to create a universal language" (Les Inrockuptibles, France)
"With the delicate fingers of a fairy, she can sculpt a variety of sounds generated by lighters, plastic cups, guitars or Fender Rhodes... Inventive and sensual, she carved 14 tracks which are as many miniature worlds, which reveal more charm and details with each listen" (Elle Magazine, France)
Cibelle, Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh NEIL COOPER September 23 2008 Comment
Star rating: **** out of 5
There's a big green plant at the front of the stage and a ladder on the side. Holding court in the centre is a curly-haired woman sporting hooped earrings and a PVC pinny with a kilt printed on. Welcome to the multi-coloured world of Cibelle (pronounced See-Bel-Eee), a Brazilian chanteuse currently residing in Dalston, who's been tipped, alongside Portishead and Bjork, as one of the three most important live acts to catch this year.
Cibelle may not have the pulling power of such contemporaries, but she's certainly got the edge. Building up each song via an array of live loops, one minute she's swaying gently with Stylophone-led tales of coconuts and cocktails, the next she's moved on to the altogether kookier new single and anti-botox ode, White Hair. In between a Portuguese number, she's clutching on to the plant as she coos Kermit the Frog's identity-crisis lament, It's Not Easy Bein' Green. Given the Animal-like appearance of the drummer bashing out crisp funk accompaniment (with and without the ladder) alongside a cherub-faced guitarist, this is oddly appropriate.
If anyone was expecting something more middle-brow, this may have something to do with 2007 album, The Shine Of Dead Electric Leaves, which featured hirsute new folk guru Devendra Banhart, and was co-produced by Air's Yann Arnaud. In truth, Cibelle could probably earn a crust crooning wine-bar standards and coffee-table soundtracks. Beyond the cartoonish demeanour, however, there's a serious, more interesting, artist at play, messing things up with shades of Ludus at their rawest or the trippier end of One Dove. By rights, the entire room should be dancing like it's 1981. Once the world catches up with Cibelle, it will be.
We have our next mini-festival at 93 Feet East on Saturday 25th July with an amazing line-up along with our usual Burlesque, performance art and Electro DJ’s.
Tickets are only £6 adv. Check out the ticket link below. See you there.
It's our honour to introduce you a new Brasilian dance music label started in April 2009 by Marcelo Domancich (Bitch Bros/Vezotonik/Reldz). Now with partners Sybel (Bitch Bros/URBR, Stripped, AZRA, Abnormal Behavior) and Quadrini(Influential) owner of Hi-Tech FM. The label counts with the following artists on the cast: Sybel Calmon, Millau, Bitch Bros, Scott Langley, Ricardo Coppini, Ultrabeats, Double Drop, Zero Vector, 4tech, Synaesthesis and more BIG names coming very soon!
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Dans le film One + One de J.L. Godard (projeté le lundi 29 juin dans le cadre de la soirée Mégaphone 69), on peut voir les Rolling Stones enregistrer l'un de leurs morceaux mythiques : quel est son titre ?
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Ali will be on tour in the UK from June 19th – July 4th come and see him and his new band live – they are tearing it up, round the country with a great party vibe!
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