Tag: Leonardo Bindilatti

OUT.RA's Local Creation Grant 2023 – Winner announced

Tiago Franco

Leonardo Bindilatti is the recipient of OUT.RA’s Local Creation Grant for 2023.

 

Co-founder of Cafetra Records, drummer of the incredible Putas Bêbadas, half of the sweeties Iguanas, solo master beatmaker as Rabu Mazda, DJ (Music), sound technician and all-around agitator, Leo’s arrival to Barreiro a good three years ago was a valuable addition to the local panorama.

 

2023’s Local Creation Grant will serve to further explore the drums (his “preferred” instrument) and to develop and present a record with a specific focus on “the idea of beatmaking and live mixing, the use of the mixing board to make dub, a sonority that’s blended and purposefully saturated, within the composition of electronic music, dance, punk and noise, with simple and minimal melodies and short voice notes.”

 

photo: Sara Zita Correia

Alan Courtis & Os Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos

Seven years (!) after the first revolutionary arrival from the Argentinian musician, sound explorer and educator Alan Courtis to Barreiro – working creatively with more than a dozen members of Associação NÓS – formerly known as “We2” but now definitively as “Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos”, and three years after their last performance (this wonderful show, held at the very beginning of the pandemic, is available to watch in full here), it’s with the utmost pleasure that this project returns, living proof of the transforming power of music and its capacity to promote capability, autonomy and free expression.

Assisted by the musicians Bernardo Álvares and Leonardo Bindilatti, Alan Courtis and the “Heróis” get back together for a week of creative creation that culminates in a new live performance, at Biblioteca Municipal do Barreiro,, where little can be said about what to expect musically - more than genre or style, it’s the personality of each element and the collective identity that originates during the workshop that will certainly be heard; it’s safe to expect sonic poetry, psychedelia, free folk, adapted football anthems - but it’s best to leave tags and genres aside when the music will be, above all else, intensely free and unequivocally personal.

Bruxas / Cobras + Iguanas

Acabado de lançar pelo selo Revolve, o EP “Vermelho” é o primeiro lançamento de Bruxas / Cobras, banda revelada pela primeira vez ao mundo pela compilação “Novos Talentos FNAC” de 2016.

Trata-se, nada mais nada menos, do duo de Ricardo Martins (baterista dos saudosos Lobster e de tantos e tantos outros projectos marcantes da última década na música feita no país) e de Pedro Lourenço (baixista que nos habituámos a ver associado ao trompetista Sei Miguel, por exemplo, e amplamente reconhecido como ilustrador), aqui unidos em torno de uma linguagem muito própria, na qual o silêncio entre ritmos e notas desempenha papel essencial e participa de uma complexidade inesperada, numa adulterada forma de rock progressivo com sem fanfarra, artifício ou excesso de notas por minuto.

Também um duo, e também muito perto de lançar novo trabalho, os Iguanas, de Leonardo Bindilatti and Lourenço Crespo – dois músicos intimamente ligados à editora Cafetra – perseguem a sua demanda pela canção abstracta e dançável, feita em partes iguais de delírios R&B, estratégias dub e vibrações lounge. Estreiam-se nesta noite em palcos barreirenses.