Bat Makumba
DJ Jeremiah
& the Afrobeat Nation
Sambamora Dance Co.
& Blocura
(Brazilian Dance
& Percussion)
DJ Sep (Dub Mission)

Bat Makumba invite you to join them at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Thursday, November 13th for a CD release celebration with special guests DJ Jeremiah and Afrobeat Nation , Sambamora and Blocura (Brazilian dance/percussion) and DJ SEP (Dub mission).

Bat Makumba is at it again with a brand new CD and a renegade carnaval show to spice up the world music scene with a high-octane potion of rock, funk and a good dose of samba. Bat Makumba's new album Boteco builds on their eponymous debut CD, which won a 2004 California Music Award for Outstanding Latin Alternative Album and was named one of the best records of 2003 by the East Bay Express . Boteco expands on the band's eclectic songwriting and brings into focus the vision of a musical world culture for the 21st century.

‘Boteco' is an artful mixture of neo-futuristic traditional Brazilian rhythms with the right quantity of the best North American spices. It is funk and rock boiling and baking with samba, maracatu, frevo and baiao.

The brainchild of Brazilian natives Alex Koberle and Emiliano Benevides and Americano bassist Carl Remde, Bat Makumba is the crossroads between the traditional music of their equatorial homeland and the punk, rock and funk influences of the US and UK. Since forming in 2000 Bat Makumba has garnered critical acclaim and a dedicated fan base throughout the West Coast, has won a 2006 SF Weekly Music Award for Best World Band, and has been hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of Five Latin Bands to Watch.

A ‘boteco' is a small bar or pub in Brazil where you can find dealers and philosophers, pimps and doctors talking about life, writing poems or theatre plays, sharing ideas about soccer and politics or simply celebrating or lamenting their lives. They are usually the last bars you find open (if they ever close), so it's where a bohemian can finish the night or start the day.