Cowps Productions's video: Batucada Sound Machine Poverty Bay Club Gisborne

Batucada Sound Machine is a 13-piece band from Auckland, New Zealand. Featuring a 6-piece percussion line-up, they create a mixture of latin groove. When musicians are curious about the sonic vocabularies of other cultures, yet have enough trust in their own instincts, then you will get the kind of ecstatic explosion of styles found in Batucada Sound Machine. Subscribe for more videos http://www.youtube.com/cowps1 http://www.youtube.com/gisborneherald Formed in the South Pacific, with a line-up that has included Maori, Brazilian, Zimbabwean and New Zealand Pakeha players, this band brings together traditions from different parts of the planet to create something unselfconscious and new; something that defies you to stay still or silent. And it doesn’t matter whether or not you speak any of the three or four different languages you are likely to hear during one of their performances; the joy and energy this group generates simply through sound and rhythm communicates something more forceful than words. Batucada is an Afro-Latin word that loosely means ‘percussion jam’, which is what this band started out as: five drummers meeting monthly in an Auckland backstreet bar for a freestyling polyrhythmic workout, taking Brazilian beats as their starting point. Over time, other musicians began to join in the sessions, bringing with them guitars, horns, voices. With new instruments came new influences and Batucada Sound Machine – B2KDA for short – began to take on the shape it has today: an eclectic, irrepressible party band that plays with rare precision in spite of the good time that is audibly being had by all. Filmed and Edited by Ben Cowper Cowps Productions cowpsproductions@hotmail.com