BENTU (Badi Assad & Sérgio Pererê)
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Brazilian duo rooted in the Afro-Brazilian Reinado tradition.
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Badi Assad and Sérgio Pererê had decades of parallel careers behind them when they first met in 2021, after a concert in Belo Horizonte. From that meeting came Bentu, an album whose title 'wind' means in Guinea-Bissau Creole.
A central source of inspiration is the Reinado, an Afro-Brazilian tradition from the state of Minas Gerais in which music is hardly rehearsed, and especially collectively experienced. Rhythm and voice are the starting point, which you also clearly hear on Bentu. The songs on the album originated organically, from conversations, dreams and improvisations in the studio. Both sing on the album: Assad also plays electric-acoustic guitar and Pererê an arsenal of West African and South American instruments, from gourd and bara dunun to tama and charango.
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Badi Assad vocals/electric-acoustic guitar, Sérgio Pererê vocals/gout/bara dunun/tama/charango
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Badi Assad and Sérgio Pererê had decades of parallel careers behind them when they first met in 2021, after a concert in Belo Horizonte. From that meeting came Bentu, an album whose title 'wind' means in Guinea-Bissau Creole.
A central source of inspiration is the Reinado, an Afro-Brazilian tradition from the state of Minas Gerais in which music is hardly rehearsed, and especially collectively experienced. Rhythm and voice are the starting point, which you also clearly hear on Bentu. The songs on the album originated organically, from conversations, dreams and improvisations in the studio. Both sing on the album: Assad also plays electric-acoustic guitar and Pererê an arsenal of West African and South American instruments, from gourd and bara dunun to tama and charango.
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Badi Assad vocals/electric-acoustic guitar, Sérgio Pererê vocals/gout/bara dunun/tama/charango
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