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Batucada Sound Machine

From Brazil, New Zealand

Batucada Sound Machine (BSM) began in 2003 when five drummers met, once a month, in a dimly lit nightclub in Auckland, New Zealand, to experiment fusing Brazilian batucada rhythms with Pacific soul. Before long, a diverse group of talented musicians gravitated towards the infectious music and a band was formed. Since then, BSM has continued to experiment, not just with Brazilian, but also Cuban and Afro-beat rhythms, adding hip-hop, carefully crafted percussion, slick horns and soulful vocals.

Word of mouth soon spread about their blistering live performances and before long BSM were billed at numerous well-respected events including WOMAD (UK and NZ), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and seven of Australia's biggest and most respected music and arts festivals.

After touring consistently to rave reviews, BSM were eager to get into the studio, and after a chance encounter at WOMAD UK with renowned world music producer Neil Sparkes (Transglobal Underground and Temple of Sound), a plan was hatched to bring him out to New Zealand and start recording.

Mixed at the legendary Avatar Studios in New York City, BSM's debut studio album "Rhythm & Rhyme" quickly climbed to the top of the Independent NZ Music charts and earned the band invitations to play at
Porto Musical Brazil, Glastonbury and The Australasian World Music Expo.

(Biography supplied by WOMAD New Zealand 2012)

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