Satanique Samba Trio (BR) + Ærkenbrand

Alle afkroge af den traditionelle brasilianske musik er blevet endevendt i Satanique Samba Trios udforskende musikalske rejse. Fra samba til forró, over bossa nova og lambada, har denne brasilianske (spoiler alert!) kvartet (jep, det er rigtigt, de er ikke en rigtig trio) siden 2002 sendt virulens, dissonans og provokationer ned gennem den stolte brasilianske musiktradition.

Deres musik er drevet af et simpelt, men frugtfuldt æstetisk mål: En dekonstruktion af de mest almindelige klichéer indenfor brasiliansk folkemusik. Deres konfronterende attitude på området forklarer måske deres navn: Ordet ”Satan” er hentet fra de hebræiske udtryk ”Ha-Satan”, der betyder ”the accuser, the adversary”.

Sagt med andre ord; hvis du nogensinde har spekuleret over, hvordan traditionelt brasiliansk folkemusik ville lyde, hvis det blev udsat for en forbandelse, så er Satanique Samba Trio den hurtigste og coolest måde at finde ud af det på!

Satanique Samba Trio was formed in 2003 with the sole purpose of posing as an idiosyncratic force on the Brazilian musical landscape. Two years later, the quintet - not actually a trio - released its debut EP MISANTROPICALIA.

In 2007, the band unearthed the critically acclaimed LP SANGROU, which led its way into concerts on Brazilian soil with names as big as Tom Zé and Naná Vasconcelos.

After a three year long recording hiatus, as they toured around Brazil (big country, you know the drill), BAD TRIP SIMULATOR # 2 was released with undeniable success. The "putrefaction trilogy" had just started.

BAD TRIP SIMULATOR # 1 from 2011 (yep, one year after # 2) and BAD TRIP SIMULATOR # 3 (2013) would eventually follow the conceptual path of decay.

By the earlier months of 2014, the band put together a digital compilation called BADTRIPTYCH (Far Out Recordings – UK) intended to lump up the “catchier” songs from the aforementioned trilogy. Still in the wake of a creative spike, the quintet / sextet (remember: not a trio) released a 7- inch (45 RPM) vinyl called MÓ BAD in 2015.

Having tasted the sweetness of vinyl, Satanique Samba Trio released its newest record XENOSSAMBA in 2017 as a double 7-inch vinyl only.

The next record, MAIS BAD, is due for September 2019 on the Belgian label Rebel Up. It's also a vinyl only. It was recorded entirely with 1980's analogue tape machines and with a cell phone.

Satanique Samba Trio has also made its way into a great number of compilations all over the world, such as A NOVA MÚSICA DO BRASIL / NEW MUSIC FROM BRAZIL (The Guardian newspaper – UK), AM SOUNDZ (Aktion Mutante - Austria), BRAZ-ILL (Gonzo Circus / Red Bull Music Academy – Belgium) and, of course, as expected from such an unusual instrumental act, a couple of movies (A Curtição do Avacalho by Petter Baiestorf, Elemento de Fixação by Murilo Seabra, and É Nóis by Alex Vidigal).

Ærkenbrand

Ærkenbrand er en Århus-baseret eksperimentalrock-gruppe, oprindeligt påbegyndt som en duo bestående af Antonius Lovmand og Sebastian Mørch i et afsides hjørne af Djursland. Bandet, der nu er udvidet til en kvartet med hhv. Andreas Thomsen og Zeki Jindyl, har siden 2014 udgivet et eklektisk bagkatalog på tværs af adskillige genrer og udtryk. Denne udvikling har senest taget en drejning ind i et unikt spændingsfelt mellem hypnotisk repetition og teknisk intensitet.