Metá Metá

Improvised Music Company(IMC)isan Arts Council funded resource for Irish jazz musicians, and a specialist music promoter for jazz and ethnic music events in Ireland. IMC produce 4 festivals annually as well as both intimate and large scale concerts of Irish and international jazz, experimental and world music artists in Ireland.

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“An extraordinary style – the music echoes everything from punk rock to freeform jazz and samba”  - The Guardian
 "Metá Metá are a raucous trio intent on shattering images of Brazilian music”  - The Wire
 
Over a squalling chaos of improvised guitar and squealing sax, a primal female voice cries out to out to Exu, the gatekeeper of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé. This is the sound of Metá Metá - vocalist Juçara Marçal, saxophonist Thiago França and guitarist Kiko Dinucci – a trio of Sao Paulo’s most sought after musicians, bursting from their home city with a dirty brew of psychedelic samba, distorted jazz and Afro-punk. For the Dublin show, this trio will become a quintet, joined by Marcelo Carbrel on bass and Sergio Machado on drums.
On their sophomore album MetaL MetaL they mix these spiritual and rhythmic foundations with influences ranging from Afrobeat to Afrosambas, punk rock to be-bop, creating chaotic, life-affirming music that explodes with the rage of The Stooges and Sonic Youth, the spirituality of John Coltrane and Sun Ra and the avant-garde instrumentation of contemporary experimental jazz outfits such as Melt Yourself Down and Polar Bear.
Formed in 2007 the trio transcends musical genres, transforming traditional religious songs into a mix of psychedelic samba, jazz improvisation and Afro-punk. The folklore influence is inspired by Candomblé, one of the many Afro -Brazilian religions where each Orixa/Orissa (deity) has her own singing and rhythms. Thiago’s sax-playing adds serious experimental traction, one moment somersaulting countermelodies over Kiko’s guitar, the next diving low to provide the brassy bass to Juçara’s commanding vocals.
After a last minute cancellation when IMC booked Méta Méta in December 2014, don't miss this debut Irish performance (finally!) of this exhilarating band, described by legendary Nigerian Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen as “the inventors of the new music scene in Brazil”.

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