Existe uma banda fazendo um som diferente na área. Seu nome, Mantra Blues Band, é baseado no estilo que ela mesma inventou para chamar de seu. Uma experiência musical que procura desvendar toda riqueza escondida na aparente simplicidade do blues. 

Como nos mantras que lhes serviram de inspiração, a banda se propõe a hipnotizar o público com ciclos de três (às vezes, até mais) acordes. A cada momento, o groove ganha uma pequena surpresa, uma variação que pode levar os ouvintes a novos estados de consciência. Sem transcendentalismos – o volume é alto demais para a meditação. 
 
O set list da Mantra Blues Band é uma mistura de material próprio com versões muito particulares (nunca apenas covers!) de clássicos e lados b vindos do Mississipi, Chicago, Texas, Londres, Liverpool, além das baías da Guanabara e de Todos-os-Santos. 

O som da banda vai do blues acústico ao elétrico, com toques de rock, rockabilly, jazz e o que mais cair na teia. E dá-lhe slide no violão resonator (“dobro” para os íntimos). 

As letras das composições - em português, please – combinam existencialismo e  bom humor regados a bourbon e cachaça.

Formada pra valer em 2015 no Rio de Janeiro, a Mantra Blues Band reúne músicos com vidas paralelas: um roteirista, um casal de psicanalistas e um especialista em óleo e gás. Mas no palco eles fazem o seguinte: 

Alice Marinho – Vocais e diva
Antônio Tibau – Guitarra e caneta
Arthur Fernandes – Baixo e nômade
Ronaldo Marinho – Bateria e divã


Born and raised in Longview, TX, Monte Pittman made the decision at 24 to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career as a professional musician unfortunately having to leave his family, friends, and band Myra Mains behind. Upon arrival in LA, he made ends meet by working at a local music store. Realizing he was better at teaching than selling, he left to start providing guitar lessons.

As fate would have it, his third student would end up being British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, who had just received a guitar from his then girlfriend, Madonna. Soon after, Monte was introduced to the iconic performer, and became her guitar teacher as well. A month later, Monte was invited to join Madonna on stage at the David Letterman Show to promote her album, Music.

Monte has since played guitar on all of her live tours and albums starting with the 2001 Drowned World Tour to sharing writing credits on some of her songs.

Monte has also played guitar for the band Prong. He is credited with co-writing songs on “Scorpio Rising” and ”Power of the Damager” to which he also added backing vocals and bass. He also played guitar on Prong’s live album “100% Live”.

In November 2009, Monte released his debut acoustic solo album, “The Deepest Dark”. Almost a year after its release, a special bonus version of “The Deepest Dark” was released and immediately reached the No. 1 spot on the Best-Selling Acoustic Albums list at CD-Baby.com. It was also No. 9 in the Top 10 Best-Selling CDs for the Fall of 2010.

In 2011, Monte launched a Kickstarter campaign for his second album, “Pain, Love & Destiny”. It raised a staggering $65,500, making him the top rock musician to raise the most money on the crowd-funding platform at that time. Monte met his initial goal of $5,000 in under 24 hours. It was released later that year and within its first week made it to No. 1 Rock Album, No. 1 Pop Album, and made it onto the Top 10 Albums chart on CD Baby. In addition, it cracked iTunes’ Top 200.

Monte performed at the 2012 Super Bowl with Madonna and toured around the world on the MDNA Tour.. He also performed at the 2012 Artists In Music Awards where he was given an award for Best Solo Artist in addition to being nominated in four other categories. Monte has also been honored with a Career Achievement Award from the Hollywood F.A.M.E. Awards. The Los Angeles Music Awards nominated him for Best Male Singer/Songwriter and Best Modern Rock Album for “Pain, Love, & Destiny”. 

In November of last year, “M.P.3: The Power Of Three, Pt. 1″ was released. It’s a stripped down acoustic EP marking the beginning of Monte and Flemming Rasmussen’s working relationship.

In 2013, Pittman with band members Kane Ritchotte on drums and Max Whipple on bass went to Copenhagen to record the upcoming album with producer Flemming Rasmussen. This marks Monte’s return to heavy music.

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Duo paulistano que explora sonoridade pop e experimental. Buscam em suas composições e melodias referências de brasilidade e uma mistura instrumental indie com estética lo-fi. A banda propõe uma musicalidade livre, sem moralismos, nem barreiras criativas. 
Formada pelo cantor/compositor Fil Souza e pelo músico/produtor, Brunno Bari, todas as músicas são compostas, produzidas e arranjadas pela dupla.

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