What an amazing mixture: the minimal & powerful electronic beats of Amsterdam
drummer Stefan Kruger, fused with the jazz harmonies of German keyboardist
Stefan Schmid, and topped by the extraordinary voice of Rio de Janeiro's Lilian
Vieira. Suavely melodic and fiercely rhythmic, inspired and happy, inventive and
accessible, Brazilian and electronic, ZUCO 103's debut album positions them
right at the forefront of the new Brazilian movement.
“Splendid!”, remarked Robert Plant, upon seeing Tartit at the Festival in the Desert, Mali. Nothing is more evocative of the fascinating expanses of the Sahara desert than the music of Tartit, a Touareg band consisting of five women and four men residing in the Timbuktu region (Mali). Unlike that other renowned Touareg band, Tinariwen, Tartit play quiet, hypnotic, trance-inducing music: the women sit down, sing, and play cyclic rhythms on their tinde drums, while the men accompany them on string instruments, acoustic and electric.
