Rising is the latest album from B2KDA. Released on Oct 9 2015

10 - Rising

09 - I'm A Physicist

08 - Watching The City Fall

07 - Tear My House Down

06 - Payback

05 - Same Old Thing

04 - The Greatest Step

03 - Can't Give You

02 - Be That Man

01 - We Do It

When musicians are curious about the sonic vocabularies of other cultures, yet have enough trust in their own instincts, then you will get the kind of ecstatic explosion of styles found in Batucada Sound Machine.

Formed in the South Pacific, with a line-up that has included Maori, Brazilian, Zimbabwean and New Zealand Pakeha players, this band brings together traditions from different parts of the planet to create something unselfconscious and new; something that defies you to stay still or silent. 

And it doesn’t matter whether or not you speak any of the three or four different languages you are likely to hear during one of their performances; the joy and energy this group generates simply through sound and rhythm communicates something more forceful than words.

Batucada is an Afro-Latin word that loosely means ‘percussion jam’, which is what this band started out as: five drummers meeting monthly in an Auckland backstreet bar for a freestyling polyrhythmic workout, taking Brazilian beats as their starting point. Over time, other musicians began to join in the sessions, bringing with them guitars, horns, voices. With new instruments came new influences and Batucada Sound Machine – BSM for short - began to take on the shape it has today: an eclectic, irrepressible party band that plays with rare precision in spite of the good time that is audibly being had by all.

That is the sound you will hear in the dozen tracks on this album. It’s a brew of Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban and African beats, fused with funk, reggae, hip-hop, Polynesian soul and who-knows-what-else; as kinetic and unconfined as any dance music you’ll find anywhere in the world.

Nick Bollinger




04 My Heart He Say

05 Cumbia de Cambio

9-piece Beast originally from Aotearoa (New Zealand)  and traveling the World

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