Artist description Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, could be defined by three words: beauty, creativity and violence. That's what Marco Schneider & Cia da Lapa's music means. A wild mix of the wide variety of hot brazilian and south american rhythms and melodies with the best tradition of soul music, rhythm'n'blues, blues and rock'n'roll, including little pinches of jazz. The Marco Schneider & Cia da Lapa's band has reached something of the status of the samba-rock-blues in popular music - a vital force beyond time and fashion. "É o Diabo na Rua no Meio do Rodamoinho" ("That's the Devil in the Street, at the Middle of the Swirl"), their first album, reassembles, in the manner of mature masters of every art, familiar elements into exciting new forms. It is a fresh, fearless collection that balances ideas and sonics, street hummability and academic achievement, rock'n'roll guts and samba grace. Through poetical lyrics, Marco Schneider sings the streets, the town, the country, the world, the people: sings men and women's love and grief, in a voice that's achingly alive, charged and shaded. Here we have the world's greatest rock & roll rhythm section putting out at maximum power, melted with samba; guitars at full roar; riffs that stick in the viscera, songs that seize the hips and even the heart; a singer who sounds serious and viscerous. "É o Diabo na Rua no Meio do Rodamoinho" is rock & roll without apologies. Marco Schneider grew up scrutinizing each new arrival from the Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan or Lou Reed, and also Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Modern Jazz Quartet with the intensity of archaeologists handling a freshly unearthed hieroglyphic. Straining to translate riffs, references and lyrics across cultures and languages, the band ended up reconstructing the meanings of pop classics according to their own experiences, a process that produced some of the finest modern and peculiar sounds in Rio de Janeiro. Marco Schneider & Cia da Lapa is the most impressive pattern of the urban contemporary sounds; it is the most consistently and energetically inventive. Based on drums, percussion, a man and a woman's voice, two eletric guitars, a bass, a trombone, a sax and a trumpet, this is new music to listen to now; don't wait thirty years. The complex situation of the Third World and especially Rio de Janeiro references is the main subject of "É o Diabo na Rua no Meio do Rodamoinho" and has been at the center of much of individual works of the Cia da Lapa's components for the last 10 years. Effortlessly multi-cultural - we're in the thick of Brazil's Afro-American-Anglo-Saxon soup - "É o Diabo na Rua no Meio do Rodamoinho" becomes a metaphor for mixed cultures and a particular kind of reality. It refers to an actual movement of artists and intellectuals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - the MPC (carioca popular music) - who attempted to construct with powerful sounds a music culture that is contemporary, modern, Brazilian and "carioca". Marco Schneider's band have digested the Stones and Chico Buarque, our canon and theirs, and spit out a samba-rock, with lyrics in portuguese and english, that nobody has done in pop music in the new global culture. And nothing sounds like it! The band still plays new versions in south american way of Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, The Doors, Steppenwolf, The Beatles, Chico Buarque, Jorge Benjor and Geraldo Vandré. Indeed, there are few explicit musical references in this album of brilliantly nuanced polyphonic pop songs, sambas, rock'n roll and R&B style sound collages. Meanings and melodies turn corners when least expected, words twist into puns, and actions are simultaneously what they seem and what they are not. The audience is listening... "To be universal, first you should talk about your own village" (Tolstói)

Music Style Pop - Rock

Musical Influences Chico Buarque, Jorge Benjor, Zé Ramalho, Nelson Cavaquinho, Cartola, Ismael Silva, Noel Rosa, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, Led Zeppelin

Similar Artists Pedro Luis e a Parede, Farofa Carioca, Boato, Caixa Preta, Chico Science

Artist History My name is Marco Schneider, 30. I have a band, Cia da Lapa, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that mixes the wide variety of hot brazilian and south american rhythms with the best tradition of soul music, R&B, blues and rock'n'roll. Good lyrics (I'm also a writer) in portuguese and english. Drums, percussion, bass, two eletric guitars, sax, trombone, trumpet and two singers, myself and an old black fat wonderfull lady that I met singing in a street bar (not on the stage). Last year we recorded a demo cd with six songs, but we are not beginners. Some of the musicians of the band used to play with brazilian maistream artists. The others didn't have the same luck yet, but anyway they play professionaly at least for more then ten years. In our shows, we play our own songs and new versions for rock'n'roll and brazilian popular music standards.

Group Members Marco Schneider - Band Leader, Marcus Prado - Guitar, Fabio Silveira - Guitar, Raffaello Meirelles - Bass Guitar, Marco Aurélio Mibach - Drums, Nelson Pestana - Percussion, D'Ávina Santi - Vocals, Kânoa Satravaka - Trombone, Gilson de Oliveira - Trumpet, Rodrigo Munhóz - Sax

Instruments Guitars (2), Bass Guitar, Drums, Percussion, Trombone, Trumpet, Sax

Albums É o Diabo na Rua no Meio do Rodamoinho "That's the Devil in the Street, at the Middle of the Swirl"

Location Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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