Artist description Haunting, hypnotic, intriguing... - Combining pop, classical and techno influences and carrying a genuine multi-ethnic charisma, the provocative blend of Latin heritage and Electronic Contemporary compositions by Mario Vaz De Mello -- overflowing with endless and inspiring visual suggestions -- breaks new musical ground.

Music Style Alternative, Electronic, Ambient, World Music, New Age, Film Music, Movie Soundtracks, Classical, Crossover.

Musical Influences Techno, Classical, Pop, Alternative, Electronic, Electronica, New Age, Industrial, Ambient, Jungle, Trance, Dance, Disco, Experimental, Crossover, Fusion, Latin Music, Brazilian Music, World Music.

Similar Artists Aphex Twin, Art of Noise, Autechre, Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, B-Tribe, Fluke, Tangerine Dream, Moby, Chick Corea, Ennio Morricone, Orbital, Bjork, Enya, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, Kitaro, Air, U2.

Artist History From Ipanema to the East Village: Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Mario Vaz De Mello traded in his surfboard for a piano while still a teenager and began composing original music for theater, dance and television. Constantly exploring the combination of conventional musical instruments with electronic music devices and computer programming, to date Vaz De Mello has scored more than fifty international stage and screen productions and his music has been continuously performed in the United States, Europe and Latin America. With his debut album, BAMBOO SHADOWS, for New York City-based VMA Records, Mario Vaz De Mello -- who nowadays lives in NYC -- has established himself as one of the most innovative artists to have stepped into the world of electronic / soundtrack music.

Group Members Music composed, arranged and performed by Mario Vaz De Mello.

Instruments Keyboards, synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, computers.

Albums Mario Vaz De Mello / BAMBOO SHADOWS (2001)

Press Reviews "Somewhere in the zone between ambient, world music, and prog new age, De Mello's tasty, low-key production is full of atmospheric moments and haunting unresolved chord progressions. Though he's originally from Brazil, 'Bamboo Shadows' is as far from bossa nova as it is from disco. The sparse, echoing percussion in 'Yellow Bikes' sounds almost symphonic, and the sampled voices over simple string synth chords in 'Naam, Acrylic & Iron Wings' remind me of Laurie Anderson..." - Keyboard Magazine

Location New York, NY - USA

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