The Brasil Cultural Center in conjunction with Mamadele Productions, Ginga P. Productions, and American Airlines presents - Encontros Percussivos - the US premiere of Mikael Mutti and his band Percussivo Mundo Novo at the World Cafe Live on Friday, July 29th at 8:00PM. Read what the New York Times said Friday, July 22 about Mutti and his group. They will close out the Central Park SummerStage Festival with an appearance at New York's Sounds of Brazil. Their first US performance will be in Philly. The Percussion Encounter will open with the rhythms of another top percussionist from Bahia, Dende and Band. The music is going to be white hot and explosive! Check out the videos.
Tickets $10.
NYTIMES 7/22/11 - The festival’s final show, on July 30 at S.O.B.’s, has Percussivo Mundo Novo, an ensemble based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia that will be performing in New York for the first time, aims to show that even a joystick, a Wii remote and an iPad, which Mikael Mutti, the founder of the five-piece group, inserts into the body of a mock guitar, can be made into musical instruments.
Mr. Mutti, who has played with Carlinhos Brown, the German heavy metal band Scorpions and Carlos Santana, speaking by telephone from Salvador, Brazil said, “We want to show that the electronics can be used without losing the essence of timeless rhythms, that something which looks like a silly game can be transformed into a real instrument with an interesting sonority.”
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