The folk sounds of north-east Brazil

“It’s a mystical thing,” Renata Rosa explained to Songlines about her music. “The knowledge and the mystery behind traditions is the base of what I do. There are things that we say and there are things that are a bit hidden.” Despite being born and raised a city-slicker in the Bladerunner-esque city of São Paulo, Renata heeded the calls of Brazil’s north-east quarter, soaking up the sounds of musically rich places like Recife and Salvador. Her own music is therefore not the sound of urban, 21st-century Brazil, of the dizzying city of her birth. Instead, playing a local violin called a rabeca (she’s also a deeply expressive singer), Renata digs deep into the north-east’s folk traditions, a musical archaeologist who’s concerned about what’s being lost under the sands of time. Like she says, it’s about those things that are a bit hidden.

“‘Incantations’ might be the best way to sum up the ineffable voice of Renata Rosa - An intense and light voice, which undulates and flies like an ember in the night.It’s a mysterious music, although familiar, with roots in Northeastern Brazil and in the depths of time. Fiddles and percussions, crystalline draping of ten strings guitar, complex and fluid vocal polyphony rising in spirals like flames of fire. ”

— Stephan Deschamps" - Les Inrock

El guitarrista y compositor venezolano Pedro Barboza estará haciendo su primera presentación en Madrid este Otoño junto a los músicos Hector Oliviera en el contrabajo y Jose San Martín en la batería. El trío tocará las composiciones originales de su recien lanzado disco "La Gran Brisa". 

Pedro cuenta una larga trayectoria músical enfocada en el jazz. La música de Pedro Barboza Trío está fuertemente influenciada por los ritmos afro venezolanos que se unen al lenguaje del jazz.