Soirée Suds kicks off with Stick In The Wheel! Their neo-folk-trad might inspire a Ken Loach soundtrack… but that’s still a very narrow label for Ian Carter and Nicola Kearey’s music! Reappropriating a vernacular heritage of ancient songs from their native London that resonate with our current concerns, this duo brings the voices of the marginalized into the present. The humor is dark. The words provocative. The voice wavers between harangue and gentle song. The guitar, sometimes squeaky, sometimes Spanish, goes off into wild riffs or melodious verses. The electro touch is rather experimental. With ferocious joy, they end up creating radical folk with a punk approach… that won’t stop you from twirling slightly or dancing a jig!
And that’s not all! The evening continues with Seu Jorje. A prolific creator, this child of the favelas has today become the most emblematic international figure of the new Brazilian Popular Music, with a powerfully modern samba-pop energy, enveloped in bossa nova, jazz and soul, warm grooves and incandescent carioca funk rhythms! Accompanied by his faithful group O Conjuntão Pesadão, and true to his art of syncretism, he returns with a root album rich in all the diversity of his country’s black music, from Rio to Salvador de Bahia. Discovered in the cult film La Cité de Dieu (Fernando Meirelles), rediscovered in La Vie aquatique (Wes Anderson) as a laid-back sailor covering Bowie in Portuguese-Brazilian… he puts his incredible stage presence at the service of a catchy, good-humored voice, inviting us to celebrate the only power there is: that of music on bodies and minds!
