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CHIPS AND SALSA @ PANAZOREAN FILM FESTIVAL
My duet Chips and Salsa had a blast playing at the opening party for the PANAZOREAN FILM FESTIVAL! This time we met about half way from our two hometowns, in the middle of the Atlantic in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores.
Sound checking (notice the giant cactus on the background that Pedro brought especially for our show!)
just before we hit the stage
Soon I’ll be posting videos from our performance.
We also did 2 little videos on the island:
in Furnas
at the Santa Rita pineapple plantation
by the way, Chips and Salsa are now on facebook:
TOUR DATES!!!
soon in Portugal and France, presenting my album and some new unreleased material:
15/03 - CC Teatro de Vila Real - Vila Real, Portugal
17/03 - Armazém do Chá - Porto, Portugal
30/03 – Museu do Oriente – Lisboa, Portugal (special guest of Randolf Arriola to present the album “T(H)REE vol 2″)
03/04 – Teatrão – Coimbra, Portugal
04/04 - Teatro Viriato - Viseu, Portugal
14/04 – CHIPS AND SALSA at the Panazorean Film Festival @ Galeria Arco 8 – Ponta Delgada, Açores (with Chris Carlone)
11/05 – Bordeaux Rock Festival @ Heretic Club – Bordeaux, France
13/05 – Bordeaux Rock Festival @ TBA - Bordeaux, France
17/05 – One Wo/Man Band Festival – Beja, Portugal
18/05 - One Wo/Man Band Festival – Portalegre, Portugal
26/05 – Aquilo Teatro – Guarda, Portugal
One Wo/Man Festival Band
Rita will be one of the participating artists at this year’s ONE WO/MAN FESTIVAL BAND which takes place in Portalegre and Beja (Portugal) on the 18th and 19th of May. Also confirmed are ZOE BOEKBINDER (US) and TERRY LEE HALE (US). More info soon.
wander
Here’s a slice of the movie “Wander” in which Rita took part last year while she was staying in San Francisco, directed by Claude Cardenas. It’s a no budget silent sci-fi film and he’s adding his own special effects besides editing and sound and everything else with his super powers. Claude hopes it will be done by the end of this year. Rita will also add some original music. We will be looking for places to screen it. Go Claude!!! Also check his tumblr http://allthegirlsieverloved.tumblr.com/
In the director’s own words: “I wrote a couple new scenes for this and hopefully it will be done by the end of the year. It’s probably the weirdest thing I’ll ever make and I’m hoping I die right after I finish it.”
next
Pop Up! is a new lounge space located at Avenida da Liberdade 159 in Lisbon. During one month it will host a number of concerts, art shows and other live events. RB will perform on Feb 1. More info on http://www.popup.com.pt/
Some pictures of the show (taken by Aleksandar Mijailovic). Rita had a special guest from Brazil on 2 songs, Frankão, who rocked on the pandeiro!
“Cherries That Went To The Police” listed as a top album of 2011 in Brazil and around
That’s right! CHERRIES THAT WENT TO THE POLICE was listed as “one of the 20 best albums of 2011 that you didn’t hear” by Brazilian journalist Zeca Camargo (host of the popular Globo’s TV show “Fantástico”):
““Cherries that went to the police”, Rita Braga – uma cantora portuguesa… quase com certeza, uma vez que Rita Braga canta na sua (nossa) língua nativa, mas também em inglês, russo, grego… Topei com este álbum sem querer numa recente viagem a Portugal. Não conhecia Rita e achei curioso um disco de uma cantora de lá tão poliglota. “Cherries” é uma surpresa deliciosa a cada faixa: músicas com um “ar de antigamente”, mas com uma vitalidade que não poderia ser mais do “agora”. Sem medo de encarar um repertório nada convencional, Rita foi para mim uma das melhores revelações de 2011.”
In Portugal the album was highly acclaimed in a number of magazines and newspapers and it also made it to the top 20 of Portuguese music magazine Blitz:
http://blitz.aeiou.pt/blitz-melhores-albuns-nacionais-de-2011-20-ao-11-lugar-fotogaleria=f77855
Rita’s music also had a sweet mention from Amanda Jo Williams, L.A.’s singer and songwriter who Rita loves, on her top list of 2011:
5. Rita Braga- Any song. This portuguese folk singer, ukulele playing cutie, is great. She had a tour planned for the U.S. recently but unfortunately she was sent back. Boo. I’d love to see her do another bedroom show at Jef’s.
And apart from a “best of 2011″, Aleksandar Zograf, Serbian cartoonist and music journalist who designed the cover wrote a note about the album (see “September updates“):
“CD titled Cherries That Went to the Police, by Rita Braga, from Lisbon, has a cover design by Aleksandar Zograf. Rita Braga tours internationally, and is one of the most interesting independent music performers around. Find more info http://superbraguita.com/ , and there’s a press release in Portuguese : http://santosdacasa.blogspot.com/2011/08/rita-braga-lanca-disco.html A story of Zograf/Braga collaboration was told in an interview for Portuguese Cotonete TV - http://musica.clix.pt/noticias/cotonete/rita-braga-na-cotonete-tv.html“
Thank you Brazil, US, Portugal and Serbia!
soon in Lisbon
MUSICBOX in Lisbon is celebrating their 5th anniversary with a series of live concerts and dj sets. Rita Braga was invited for the closing evening on December 10, also featuring SEAN RILEY.
my skype show, from lisbon to new york
Last Saturday, I had planned to play a house show at my friends Tristan and Lesley’s in NYC. Since I’ve been deported from the US, they turned it into a little Artist Immigration Awareness event, in which I took place via Skype to share my story and got to play a couple of tunes.
Here is an article about this story: http://www.feastofmusic.com/feast_of_music/2011/11/the-accidental-skype-show.html
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival (now cancellled)
As part of the satellite events of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, Chips and Salsa are excited to provide live musical accompaniment to two rare animated films, The Idea (dir. Berthold Bartosch, 1932) on Saturday, Dec 3 and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (dir. Lotte Reiniger, 1926) on Sunday, Dec 4 at Spectacle Theatre / 124 South 3rd St., Brooklyn.
The Idea (dir. Berthold Bartosch, 1932)
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (dir. Lotte Reiniger, 1926)
8:30: The Idea (dir. Berthold Bartosch, 1932) and The Adventures of Prince Achmed (dir. Lotte Reiniger, 1926) with live music by Chips and Salsa
“This very special program will include a screening of Berthold Barthosch’s short animated film The Idea, based upon the eponymous woodcut novel by Belgian printmaker Frans Masereel. Bartosch’s film features a mixture of techniques, including stop motion animation and various optical effects. Bartosch learned many of these methods as an assistant to pioneering animator Lotte Reiniger, best known for creating the first still-extant animated feature film The Adventures of Prince Achmed. Based on Araban Nights fairy tales, Prince Achmed features Reiniger’s distinctive, elaborately jointed cut paper silhouette animation, enhanced with mesmerizing abstract effects and sumptuous dyed film stock in a variety of saturated hues. The international multi-instrumentalist duo Chips and Salsa will provide live musical accompaniment to these stunning and rare animated films.”
