SambaDa

Sambada's New Album "Gente!" and Release Party Dates

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
January 14, 2010

Brazilian Transplants in Unexpected Places: SambaD Reveres and Reinvents Samba and Surf-Rock

There's a beach where one sunny afternoon you may witness an offering to an Afro-Brazilian Orixa spirit of the ocean, the next day watch master capoeristas practicing Brazil's martial art dance form, and still another day join a gathering of thousands of surfers-cum-dancers rocking out to hybrid musical sounds informed by bloco afro (Afro-Brazilian percussion music), samba-reggae, surf-rock, and California funk. No, these are not the shores of ...
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