Release

“Jardim Ipaussurama 4.11” is a public bus that crosses the outskirts and the commercial center of the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo. Transporting workers, students and also members of the band, the bus crosses the paths of the city, representing “the imaginary train that goes the highest and deepest point, in search of the collective consciousness.” From this symbolism, emerges EXPRESSO 4.11, a band that mixes electrical and percussion instruments and seeks to combine root popular music with the contemporary, resulting in a sound they call "Brazilian Popular Weight."  

In process of recording their latest CD, “Caminho do Portal”, the EXPRESSO 4.11 band prepares its new musical presentation, with influences that go from rock, reggae, rap and funk, to the most traditional African-Brazilian rhythms such as maracatu, afoxé, samba, vamunha and djembê African rhythms, thus forming the “The Alchemy of Sounds of the Brazilian Barn.” 

In their repertoire there are songs written by the band, such as “Trabaia Nego,” a psychedelic mixture of lamento and the African rhythm of the djembe instrument about the hopes of the workers who do not loose their root and identity; “Natureza” and “Caimã,” where the poetry of African myths and the songs of love and war join ancestral drums; “Águia,” a reggae that describes the daily life in the outskirts of town; and “Monangambê,” a word that means the conquest of the ideal place inside of us, a composition to honor two masters who strongly influenced rhythmic and ideological the members of the band: Tc (musician and coordinator of the Casa de Cultura Tainã from Campinas – SP) and Lumumba (musician and builder of African instruments).

The members of the band are Davi (voice, guitar, harmonica, percussion and flute), Deco (drums and percussion), Chula (electric guitar), Perna and Diego (percussion) and Mexicano (bass guitar), all united around the music and narrative poetry.