23th & 28th October Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda

30 Sep, 2013

23/10 LIVE MUSIC 8pm Movimientos, Mais Um Discos & Gandaia Arts presents Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda @ Bedroom Bar - 68 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY) i:      FREE

Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda are a powerful 10 piece brass band orchestra playing a seriously swinging mix of latin grooves, afrobeats and the rhythms of Pernambuco,  It’s driven by the combination of some of the finest musicians from that region with expert percussionists, brass players and instrumentalists with experience in some of the legendary Frevos orchestras and top class bands like Bonsucesso Samba Clube, Academia da Berlinda, DJ Dolores e Orchestra Santa Massa. 
 
  The New York Times says “It’s a contemporary rock band collided with a traditional  brass band, with drum rhythms leavening the mixture. It’s joyous and unpretentious  and it gets over like crazy.  With frevo — frenetic brass-band music — as well as  maracatu, the stately Afro-Brazilian beat and Jamaican Ska.” 
 
Following a recent Latin Grammy nomination, and recommendations from the New  York Times, they have been chosen to showcase at Europe’s influential global music  exposition WOMEX. 
 
One of their tracks featured on the Mais Um Discos compilation ‘Oi! A Nova Musica  Brasilera’ in 2010 and Mais Um Discos label boss Lewis Robinson aka Mais Um Gringo  joins Movimientos’ Cal Jader on the decks for some of the freshest sounds from Brazil  before and after the band. 
 
Live:  Orquestra Contemporânea de Olinda ,  DJs:  Mais Um Gringo (Mais Um Discos) + Cal Jader (Movimientos)
 
Check their website and download their album for tweet!  http://www.orquestraolinda.com.br/

28/10  WORSHOP 7pm – 10pm Brazilian drumming masterclass with Gilu Amaral @ Husky Studios (29a Amelia St, SE17 3PY) i: www.gandaia.org £15 adv /£20 full price
 
Born and raised in Olinda, Gilu has gained a wide range of musical experience, acquired through work and collaboration with artists such as Naná Vasconcelos, Renata Rosa, Mundo Livre S/A, Bonsucesso Samba Clube amongst many.The percussionist has been surrounded by music since its early age, immersed in different rhythmical structures from sacred ritual of “candomble”, different schools and local musical groups. This allowed the artist to have a domain of many rhythms such as maracatu, samba, forro, ‘coco’, ciranda and cavalo marinho.
Founder of  Orquestra Contemporanea de Olinda, the artist and his group were  selected to perform at WOMEX and are also doing a FREE gig in London on wednesday  23rd which is a great gift to londoners!  In this session the rhythsm from Pernambuco are unfolded in 3 hours of drumming  and learning!