Gruff, Gum 'N The Gatorra
Apr, 6 2010
When Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys visited South America recently, he met Tony Da Gatorra, a cult Brazilian musician famed for playing protest songs on his self-invented instrument. The two musicians played a gig together, and had such fun that they decided to create an album. The result is The Terror of Cosmic Loneliness, which was recorded during a marathon coffee-and-gum-fueled 12 hour session.
Commentators have described the music -- which features the part-drum machine, part-guitar sound of The Gatorra – as “unorthodox” but Gatorra assures us enigmatically that the release “was made with lots of feelings and true love to bring consciousness and show a little bit of truth that needs to be said without hypocrisy.” “We are,” he says, “creatures of God, so there's no death. Spirit is light, all evil won't prevail.”
Fans of either artist who are keen to find out quite what that might sound like will be encouraged to know that the album will be released in July.
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