"...Does post-rock have a role in Brazil’s music scene? São Paulo has always been the source of the more out-rock created in Brazil, especially during the eighties when the influences that poured into the country kicked Brazil’s nascent rock scene into high gear—the wide ranging and virtually impossible to define genre of MPB had always previously dominated. São Paulo was the center of an experimental new wave scene, while Rio de Janeiro produced mostly derivative pop-rock hybrids.
Unlike Rio, which is the classic Brazilian stereotype of sun, sea, and dazzling tropical beauty, São Paulo can be cold, grey and downright miserable at times, and the city is absolutely crawling with hipsters, creating thriving experimental music networks with musicians collaborating and working on several simultaneous and varied projects. Members of Hurtmold can be found in the backing band of avant-Samba hip-hoppers Instituto and drummer Takara contributed to the excellent O Ciclo Da Decadençia by Cidadão Instigado which has to be heard to be believed, coming across as a kind of cracked post-punk King Crimson hybrid.
As well as working with The Eternals, last year Hurtmold collaborated with Rob Mazurek of Chicago Undergound and Isotope 217 further strengthening the Chicago/São Paulo interface and leaves me wondering what else will come out of this somewhat unlikely but fruitful communion." ( Andy Cumming , "Stylus Magazine" , 2005 )
Unlike Rio, which is the classic Brazilian stereotype of sun, sea, and dazzling tropical beauty, São Paulo can be cold, grey and downright miserable at times, and the city is absolutely crawling with hipsters, creating thriving experimental music networks with musicians collaborating and working on several simultaneous and varied projects. Members of Hurtmold can be found in the backing band of avant-Samba hip-hoppers Instituto and drummer Takara contributed to the excellent O Ciclo Da Decadençia by Cidadão Instigado which has to be heard to be believed, coming across as a kind of cracked post-punk King Crimson hybrid.
As well as working with The Eternals, last year Hurtmold collaborated with Rob Mazurek of Chicago Undergound and Isotope 217 further strengthening the Chicago/São Paulo interface and leaves me wondering what else will come out of this somewhat unlikely but fruitful communion." ( Andy Cumming , "Stylus Magazine" , 2005 )
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