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David Silva

About Me

Started playing guitar when I was 15. My teachers were Magra and Duca of the Cape Verdian group Bulimundo. I did my very first concert with Magra in 1988 at the the first Musicians Union meeting in Cape Verde. Others that performed that night was Cecaria Evora and Bulimundo. It was that same night that Katchas, the founder of Bulimundo, died in a car accident. A pioneer of cape verdian music was lost. A few years later a friend gave me one of Katchas electric guitars to play. It had been stored under a bed since 1980 and was in a pretty bad shape. I restored it and have been playing it since then. A great Fender Stratocaster.
I've recorded two albums with Tyskarna från Lund, Metarmorphobia and Die Quelle. Not as part of the band but writing, producing, playing and singing on almost half of the tracks. Two of the songs that I worked with (Global Fussball OK and Achtung X-mas) made it to top 20 in Sweden. My greatest succes to this date! We also collaborated with the swedish national cook team on "Kniven Gaffeln Skeden" för their olympic games in 2004. My best production work i think.
I'm proud to be a part of Bosses Vänner and the album Läget?. An album with REAL music for kids (and their parents). And besides myself the album includes performances by Papa Dee, Titiyo, Desmond Foster, Idde Schultz, Edith Backlund, Pär Wiksten (the Wannadies) and Mic Michaeli (Europe). An album that was nominated for a swedish Grammy this year (2008). And it was a dream come true to work with Desmond Foster, a great musician.
Lately I've working on tracks with swedish rapper and multiinstrumentalist Martin Bentancourt. A very talented and funny guy. A pleasure to be around.
And I'm very happy about being a part of the Robert Johnson & The Punchdrunks crew! I've produced some tracks on the upcoming release "100% Pot Success!" and I'll be joining the band on stage playing keyboard and percussion.
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Member Since: 12/11/2006
Band Members: David Silva
Nedjmo Marx: my producer/writer alias for Tyskarna från Lund and Robert Johnson & The Punchdrunks
Influences: Prince, Kraftwerk, Kool Keith, Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield, Burt Baccarach, Parliament Funkadelic, Wendy and Lisa, James Brown, Caetano Veloso and David Bowie just to mention a few.
Sounds Like: Sometimes like shit sometimes great...

Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

musical happiness

My god what a rush!Together with Robert johnson and The punchdrunks I opened for swedish giants Bob Hund last saturday. The venue was Cirkus in Stockholm, a really great venue with capacity for 1700 p...
Posted by on Wed, 06 May 2009 06:45:00 GMT

New song with Martin Bentancourt!!

Now you can listen to a new great song with Martin Bentancourt here at my little space.I play bass and a lot of electric guitars There's also some backround singing and some Michael Jackson type hihat...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:37:00 GMT

"Nytt Land" over 12000 downloads in march!

This is great news. Pär at meadowmusic.se sent Martin Bentancourt and me an email today saying that our song Nytt Land has been downloaded over 12000 times just this month. That's just... ha ha ha. Cr...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:12:00 GMT

Thank's and praise!

Hey!A day of feeling a little sick and also tired has just got a nice turn. I read what Lindsay Hutton wrote about the (hopefully) upcoming Robert Johnson and The Punchdrunks album and things felt a l...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:31:00 GMT

Jenny Wilson

My God!!Jenny Wilson turned out to be Prince. I must confess that I'm a bit overwhelmed. In a very very positive way. Because not only is she Prince but she is it in a way that he could never be.Well ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:26:00 GMT

Production and guitars

Hey.It's so great to be me right now. The song "Hon vill dansa" (she want's to dance) that I'm involved in by Martin Bentancourt is out there. And on the radio here in sweden already. Great song check...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:29:00 GMT

New Single and some dub

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Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:23:00 GMT

Japan and running

Nice news from the wonderful people over at meadowmusic.se - 1500 downloads and counting in just one week. And counting! :)They are even listening to Nytt Land in Japan.http://www.lastfm.jp/user/redta...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:35:00 GMT

over 700 listened in!

Ok word is getting around.After the mentioning on HAX blogg we estimate that over 700 people listen to Nytt Land (släpp mitt sms) at meadowmusic.se and some we hope also downloaded it. And of cours mo...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:51:00 GMT

Släpp mitt SMS!

Nu börjar bloggvärlden skriva om och länka till Nytt Land. Idag bland annat dessa två FRA bloggare. Henrik Axelssons blogg har ju varit den allra mest omtalade den senaste tiden. Efter det att FRA anm...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:13:00 GMT