MONDAY 31ST DECEMBER 2007
NEW YEAR'S EVE CARNIVAL FEAT. PARAISO SCHOOL OF SAMBA
Cafe Lazeez, 21 Dean St, Soho, London
The ultimate carnival switch to 2008 feat. Paraiso School of Samba
£17 in-advance/ 9-4am
We are extremely excited about 2008, it is the year we will celebrate 10 years of our successful Brazilian club night - BATMACUMBA, making us one of the longest running Brazilian clubs anywhere in the world. To mark the occasion we will be launching a double CD/DVD of music and short films from Brazil plus we will be embarking on a club tour of Europe.
So what better way to kick the year off than with a storming New Year’s Eve party with great live music, wicked deejay selection and the usual carnival vibe. Live music comes from London’s most authentic samba school, Paraiso School of Samba, vice-Champions at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. A dozen drummers and dancers will be counting down to midnight in true samba style.
Carnival chaos continues on the decks with Batmacumba resident DJ Cliffy who is joined by Spiritual South, responsible for remixing the likes of Bebel Gilberto, Azymuth & UFO. Completing the line-up are new Brazilian drum & bass duo Human Factor (made up of DJ Tisso & Atila) whose debut single featuring Tita Lima has been a firm favourite with the likes of DJ Patife and Fabio rocking dancefloors all over the world. Expect to hear Brazilian sounds covering samba to carimbo, funk carioca to drum & bass and lots more in-between.
Batmacumba New Year Carnival 2007 - Monday 31st December
Cafe Lazeez, 21 Dean St, Soho, London, W1 (nearest tube: Tottenham Court Rd) 9- 4am / Price: £17 in-advance
available from: www.ica.org.uk / tel: 020 7930 37647 or www.ticketweb.co.uk / tel: 08700 600 100 and in person from Cafe Lazeez tel 020 7434 9393
Info hotline: 08730 161 159 /
[email protected]BATMACUMBA IN BRAZIL
During the first half of 2007 Batmacumba resident DJ Cliffy spent five months travelling around Brazil searching new music from deep inside the country, ending up halway down the Amazon river on ecological reserve.
During his time in Brazil he visited a quilombo (an old slave town) to witness their celebrations for the anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery, checked out tambor de criola in the heart of Sao Luiz and hunted down some fantastic old carimbo records in the central market of belem.
The journey started in Salvador on the 2nd February, Dia de Iemanja, when thousands of people take to the streets and beaches of the suburb of Rio Vermelho to celebrate the feast of the Goddess of the Sea. From early morning devotees flood in from the surrounding towns to pay homage to Iemanja. Hypnotic rhythms are frantically drummed out along the beach as each group pays a very personal tribute. Thousands of flowers and other gifts are collected and late in the afternoon the local fisherman take to the sea to delivery the offerings to Iemanja.
From there the journey took DJ Cliffy up the coast to Sao Luis and to the spiritual home of tambor de Criola, an afro-Brazilian dance with it's roots firmly in Brazil's slave past. Women brightly coloured skirts dance for the three drummers who maintain their driving rhythms by continously heating the drums skins in a precarious bomfire. Every Friday around dusk various tambor de criola groups meet in the central market to perform in a tradition that goes back generations.
In Belem from the journey down the Amazon started taking in the small city of Santarem en route toManaus. After the relative calm of Sao Luis with it's old colonial streets, Belem is like an explosion of Amazonian-fused culture. The hectic market streets are over-subscribed with street-vendors desperate to make a sale. Every other street corner offers some sort of street food whilst a down pour of rain is never far away.
THE STORY OF BATMACUMBA
When DJ Cliffy started Batmacumba 9 years ago at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) little did he know that it would become a benchmark for Brazilian culture in London. Back then the Brazilian scene was a niche now it has taken London by storm.
Batmacumba, together with the ICA, forged an alternative vision for Brazilian culture in the UK which still remains at the forefront of the UK scene. DJ Cliffy has taken Brazilian to the four corners of the planet - anywhere people are willing to dig the carnival atmosphere - from Sydney Opera House to Montreux Jazz Festival and more recently Dubai.
'Ultimately the ICA is not so much a place as a principle. A belief in the new. An Enduring faith in the creativity of tomorrow'
Ekow Eshun, Artistic Director ICA.
The Brazilian revolution in London started at Batmacumba, the longest running Brazilian club-night in England. The original mix of new & exciting music from Brazil has made it one of the most respected nights around. Batmacumba music guests have included Patricia Marx, Max de Castro, Ed Motta, Fernanda Porto, DJ Patife, Gilles Peterson, Spiritual South, Marcos Valle, Azymuth and many more.
Batmacumba is more than just a club-night, it is a multi-media event bringing together films, photography, graffiti, dance, capoeira and much more. Batmacumba has helped many young Brazilian artists break-through in the UK and continues to offer a space for exciting Brazilian culture.
'At any given Batmacumba night, you can expect everything from vintage carnaval bateria crescendos to fresh-off-the-cdr sounds of modern Rio.'
Wax Poetics magazine (USA).
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