KIKO DINUCCI
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“Recorded on analog tape with an ear to the production techniques of Brazilian records from the ’60s and ’70s… Rastilho explores folk music textures with a chunky, percussive playing style and a taut energy that recalls Kiko’s experience in the city’s punk scene… vivid playing, with rhythmic, resonant thrums”. PITCHFORK
On Rastilho Kiko Dinucci absorbs the lineage of Brazilian guitarists such as Dorival Caymmi, João Gilberto, Baden Powell, Jorge Ben and Gilberto Gil - yet filtered through his uniquely ‘punk’ musical vision.
His style is raw - technically, he seems to attack the guitar strings, lyrically he explores Afro-Brazilian culture, slavery, Brazilian revolutionaries, candomblé and evangelical Christianity.
Dinucci is one the most innovative artists in contemporary Brazilian music – as well as a member of Metá Metá, who combine elements of Brazilian music, candomblé, punk rock and free jazz, he has worked with Tom Zé, Criolo and Elza Soares.
Kiko: “I’ve wanted to make an album dedicated to the guitar for a long time. As a child, I treated it as a toy. In my teens, with my guitar patched with pieces of sellotape, I tried to reproduce heavy rock riffs whilst finding inspiration in the Afro works of Baden Powell and guitars of Dorival Caymmi, João Bosco, Jorge Ben and Gilberto Gil. In the 90s my experience in the São Paulo hardcore scene was mirrored by time spent in candomblé activities - both shaped the way I play guitar today”
translated by David McLoughlin (Brasil Calling)
Avec son jeu de guitare acoustique rythmiquement féroce, l'artiste de São Paulo laisse un temps son trio afro-punk Metá Metá pour une aventure solo influencée par la religion afro-brésilienne Candomblé et le chaos d'un pays en crise.
Figure majeure de la scène musicale avant-gardiste de São Paulo, Kiko Dinucci est l'un des artistes les plus innovants de la musique brésilienne contemporaine. Il est connu en Europe pour son travail avec le quartet post-samba Passo Torto et pour être l'un des trois membres du groupe d’afro-punk-jazz brésilien Metá Metá. Le musicien qui a travaillé avec Tom Zé, Criolo et Elza Soares réalise un vieux rêve, enregistrer un album dédié à la guitare, un rêve d'afro-samba inspiré autant par les roda de sambas, les clubs "folkloriques" de la classe ouvrière, les héros de sa jeunesse Baden Powell, João Bosco, Jorge Ben et Gilberto Gil, la religion afro-brésilienne Candomblé et les enregistrements brésiliens des années 1960 de Sergio Ricardo, Geraldo Vandré et Edu Lobo.
C'est à travers le filtre de sa vision musicale libre et "punk" que Kiko Dinucci nous offre une collection de samba brute et apocalyptique. / FIP