Monday, April 11, 2011

SEPULTURA DISCUSS Concert for brazilwood/ pernambuco wood




Brazilian thrash legends SEPULTURA discuss Concert for brazilwood/ pernambuco wood. Sepultura and Orquestra Experimental de Repertório with Maestro Jamil Maluf. InterFace Filmes at Virada Cultural 2011. Since the mid 1700's brazilwood (also known as pernambuco wood) has been vital in the manufacture of fine violins bows and other stringed instruments. Threatened with extinction, the lack of brazilwood will cause devastating effect in music.
FROM BLABBERMOUTH.NET:
Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA will be joined by the Orquestra Experimental de Repertório (conducted by Jamil Maluf) during their appearance this Saturday, April 16 at the Virada Cultural festival in São Paulo, Brazil. Special arrangements were made and songs that were never played before by SEPULTURA will be performed at this concert. The band will appear at 11 p.m. on a stage located right in front of 110-year-old Luz train station in downtown São Paulo.

Virada Cultural is the biggest festival in São Paulo, and it is organized by the Secretariat of Culture of the São Paulo City Council. Over the course of a 24-hour period, locals and tourists divide their time among hundreds of attractions; approximately 330,000 people were expected last year.

A video interview with SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser and Orquestra Experimental de Repertório conductor Jamil Maluf about the upcoming concert can be viewed below (in Portuguese, with English subtitles).
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-