Tetine are Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado. They met in 1995 in São Paulo, Brazil. Since then they have created a multitude of sound works from tropical punk funk/electro & experimental baile funk driven tunes to atonal orchestral music incursions for plays, soundtracks, performances, art films and installations.
Tetine have a few albums released on different record labels (Slum Dunk Music/Bizarre Music/Soul Jazz Records/Sulphur Records/Mr Bongo - for full discography please see below). They have just released a brand new album LET YOUR X's BE Y's on Soul Jazz Records. It is out NOW!
Tetine have also carved an unusual musical path constantly exploring the boundaries between music, art, video and performance. They have made a series of ristualistic performances and have extensively exhibited art films and video throughout Europe and South America. Tetine's live events range from rock gigs to gallery installations; from opening last year’s ‘Tropicalia – A Revolution in Brazilian Culture’ festival at the Barbican Centre in London to numerous performances for galleries, museums, art spaces and festivals from Paris (Palais de Tokyo), to Chicago (The Wire’s Adventures in Modern Music Festival) and Sonar. Other actions include live performances at Museu Serralves in Porto, Liverpool Biennal, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Frankfurter Kunstverein amongst many others.
Tetine have been instrumental in bringing the Brazilian underground music scene to the attention of the UK for a number of years. They compiled, presented and mixed the first ever album of Baile Funk outside of Brazil (Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca, 2004) as well as an essential primer to early-80s Post-Punk from Sao Paulo (Sexual Life of The Savages, released on Soul Jazz Records in 2007). Both these albums have influenced a new generation of DJs and beat-makers around the world.
Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado have run the Slum Dunk radio show on Resonance Fm 104.4 - pretty much since the station's inception in 2002. On Slum Dunk they keep playing all sorts of great obscure and unexpected music from Brazil and beyond.
"The off-kilter, mutated funk, electro and sound manipulation that comprises this inventve and gravely album is an absolute treat" PLAN B
"The gem on their 8th album is "Let the X Be X," which is so awesome and catchy it sounds familiar. What makes Tetine so good is that their off-beat, messy quality makes them natural, seemingly effortless, and therefore beautiful." Vanessa Labi, THE URB Magazine, 4.5/5 "
"The gleeful merging of 80's synths, baile funk beats and Bruno Verner's non-singing voice allow them to push over an hour mark" UNCUT 4/5
"Tetine calls the resulting aesthetic 'tropical punk' , a title they used to brand a show of radical Brazilian contemporary art ..." XLR8R
"Kinder than their full-on live shows it pulls you in and holds you with its ever changing flow and colour, never boring, always inventive". MUSIC WEEK
"Less ‘we do not give a fuck’, more ‘we do not need to give a fuck’ - a crucial difference in a music market riddled with attitude, desperately seeking substance." Stuart Buchanan, FAT PLANET
"Soul Jazz have snapped them up and the results are hot" DAZED & CONFUSED
"Like peeling back the layers of an onion revealing a pungent core and a sense of a reducing one to very real tears Tetine make music that when fully explored reveals much more then one-liners over kooky beats". PIX
"A startling combination of influences and ideas that I'm still working out. Definitely one to watch." STYLUS MAGAZINE
"Art duo Tetine’s pumped-up punk-meets-funk sound and frenzied on-stage antics make them a creative force to be reckoned with. Having released a prolific eight albums and performed everywhere from Sonar to the Whitechapel Gallery, Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner are beacons of their native Sao Paulo avant-garde electronic underground. FACT
"It’s the signature hollow impact of 808 toms and handclaps that most frequently recurs as a motif amongst the 14 tracks here, particularly amongst the brooding, bass-heavy hip-hop / electro and smoothly traded verses of ‘Eu To Aberta’ and ‘Melo Do Carrao’s slide down into glittering Kraftwerk-meets-Bambaataa streamlined electro pop. Not bad at all." - Chris Downton - CYCLIC DEFROST MAG
"Their latest, L.I.C.K. My Favela is wall-to-wall with sassy party jawns, grrrl-queer liberation polemics, and Miami-bass boom." Jessica Hopper, CHICAGO READER.
"In addition to having a Brazilian sensibilities, Tetine adds striking elements of electronica, house, and new wave to create the strange brew. "A Historia Da Garca(1)" sounds like a soundtrack for a dystopian flick: acid sounds; cool Portuguese raps, and spooky new wave synths. It's one of the freshest sounds I've heard in ages." TURNTABLE LAB
"They were even the ones who introduce YOU to Funk Carioca but we'll talk about it latter." Ana Garcia, PLAN B
Buy L.I.C.K MY FAVELA and other TETINE titles HERE
TETINE'S FULL DISCOGRAPHY:
** LET YOUr X's BE Y's / Soul Jazz Records 2008
** I GO TO THE DOCTOR / 12' Soul Jazz Records 2008
** A História da Garça / 12' Soul Jazz Records 2006
** L.I.C.K MY FAVELA - vinyl / Kute Bash Records 2006
** L.I.C.K MY FAVELA / Slum Dunk 2005
** The Sexual Life of The Savages / Soul Jazz Records 2005
** Bonde do Tetao / Bizarre Music 2004
** Slum Dunk Presents Funk Carioca / Mr Bongo 2004
** Men In Uniform / Bizarre Music 2003
** Tetine Vs Sophie Calle - Samba de Monalisa / Sulphur Records 2002
** Olha Ela de Novo / High School Records 2001
** Musica De Amor / High School Records 1998
** Creme / High School Records 1997
** Alexander's Grave / High School Records 1996
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olá, galera, sou Grilo, amigo de dd e editei o filme sou feia mas to na moda, finalizei meu cd e gostaria de mandar pra vcs. to com portador pra londres, mas vi q vcs estão em SP. vou tentar alguem deixar com vcs. no caso de SP a portadora é Juliana Freitas! vou ver q dia ela estara disponivel e repasso o vosso contato pra ela entregar pra vcs, de repente no show com o MIPV, conheço Laura tambem, aqui em recife ela ficou lá em casa! jazzy tchubas!! meu email é radiofreidamiao@gmail.com entremos em contato!! funk your self and STAY BRUTAL
