LINEUP: Ava Rocha (BR), Negro Leo (BR), Li Jianhong, Bayan Dalai

Price: 80/100 RMB (tickets: https://www.showstart.com/event/77742)

TROPICAL CHINA, Subtropical Asia in Partnership with The Brazilian Embassy in Beijing and Dafu Records, launch the firsts sino-brazilian album of the history. The annual project will bring Brazilian musicians to record in China with Chinese youth talents, the albums will be produced and distributed by indie labels in both countries. The First edition happens in March featuring 33EMYBW & GOOOOOSE from the Chinese side and AVA ROCHA & NEGRO LEO from the Brazilian side. The conclusion of the works will be showcase in March 30th at Modernsky Lab in Shanghai, but before that we will host a special warmup showcase in Beijing at fRUITYSPACE on March 15th, where Ava Rocha and Negro Leo will join two of Beijing’s finest – guitar noise renegade Li Jianhong and grassland musician Bayan Dalai.

AVA ROCHA

Ava Rocha is a Brazilian singer, songwriter and filmmaker. Daughter of two powerhouse filmmakers in Brazil, cinema has been in the Rio-born singer’s blood since she was a child. A leading figure in Brazil’s post-Tropicalia movement, along with her husband, Negro Leo, whom she often creates music with, she’s been turning the meaning of Brazilian pop on its head. Expanding on the foundation of the movement – an aim at universalizing and modernizing the language of Brazilian pop music, incorporating elements from world youth music such as Afro and Amazonian grooves as well as rock, psychedelia and electric guitar - Ava Rocha goes above and beyond. Embedding elements of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin American music with high doses of experimentalism, all colliding and fusing together with rock n' roll, funk, soul and Bossa-Nova vibes, the result is something challenging, something to embrace and something wholly original. A true creator in avant-garde art that never excludes the listener but instead introduces them to a completely new ocean of possibilities.

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NEGRO LEO

"Negro Leo is part of a new experimental-music scene in Rio de Janeiro, associated over the last five years with the label Quintavant and the club Audio Rebel. Animated, charismatic, kind of wizardly with his rhythmic shouting of dream-state symbolic lyrics and his rough musicianship, Negro Leo dares you to demystify his method. They contain funk and free jazz and noise; they’ve got something to do with the 1960s Tropicalismo movement in Brazil, something to do with Arto Lindsay and New York’s brief late-’70s No Wave movement." The New York Times

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LI JIANGHONG 李剑鸿

Guitar demi-god Li Jianhong, whose drone-heavy, shredful, gut-wailing brand of guitar improv is always a wonder to behold, who’ll turn his guitar into a perpetual motion machine of sound, swaying his entire body to the layers of noise, making you scream out in delight as he gives a curling vengeful noise sacrifice to the guitar deities above.

BAYAN DALAI 巴彦达莱

Bayan Dalai is the frontman for Horse Radio and formerly for December3am, two bands who made quite a splash when they were active with their reliably high-energy performances. With a knack for adding in elements of krautrock, psychedelic music, and experimental tones into his Inner Mongolian gruff and desire to explore the outer edges of his ancestors music.