Event Info
Matuto
“The joyous, ebullient music of Matuto merges the forro folkloric music of Bra...
8:00pm Doors at: 7:00pm
$24 ($20 members)
Event Description
“The joyous, ebullient music of Matuto merges the forro folkloric music of Brazil with the sounds of all-American bluegrass." - Chicago Tribune
“Weird and Wonderful… Unorthodox and Delightful” - Jazz Times
Matuto’s songs can sway hips just as easily as spark insights. Drawing on Northeastern Brazil’s folkloric rhythms like forró, maracatu, or coco, and on deep Americana — from bluegrass to spirituals to swampy Louisiana jams — Matuto uses unexpected Pan-American sonic sympathies to craft appealing, rootsy, yet philosophical tales of love, self-discovery, nostalgia, and true peace. What wide-ranging Americana and jazz guitarist Clay Ross and accordionist Rob Curto, one of the movers behind New York’s Forró For All (when not touring with folks like Lila Downs and David Krakauer) began as a curious exploration of their shared musical loves, Matuto (a Northeastern Brazilian slang term for “bumpkin”) has blossomed into a platform for expressing broad truths, ideas inspired by Buddhist sutras, personal epiphanies, and the musicians’ down-home upbringings.
Their new “Africa Suite” EP has just been released. The album is unique to their previous work and very much it’s own statement, but deeply connected to the rhythmic spirit of the Matuto sound. African diaspora is a common thread in the North and South American musical influences they’ve embraced since their inception. Working on this project allowed them to focus more deeply on Africa’s influence and to document a 5-week long tour that took them across Mozambique, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, and Senegal in 2013. It features 5 different compositional voices, with one piece from each musical collaborator on the tour.
http://matutomusic.com/
http://www.roguefolk.bc.ca/concerts/ev15030820
Venue
St. James Community Hall
3214 W. 10th Ave.
In-Person Event
Sun. March 8th 2015 + Add to Calendar
St. James Community Hall
