Cupijo, Mestre
Siria - Mestre Cupijo E Seu Ritmo
Brass heavy music from the Amazon. Tracks selected from Mestre Cupijos 6 studio albums. Cameta, a historical little Amazonian town on the shores of the river Tocantins, is the birthplace of the scorching music known as "Siria"; a cross pollination between the music of the inhabitants of the Quilombos, (a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by escaped slaves of African origins) and the Indigenous People of the Amazon Rainforest. It is a breathing, pulsing, emphatic beat, and the modernised version of this local music, created by Mestre Cupijo, has been igniting street parties and traditional festivals across the state of Para (Nothern Brazil) for decades. And at last in 2014, the combustible sound of Siria will be celebrated internationally as the feverish, tropical sound of the summer!