Cataventoré
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Cataventoré

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | SELF

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil | SELF
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2004 - Participation with 2 tracks on the collection CD "Conexão Telemig Celular de Música: New trends in the music of Minas Gerais".
2009 - Album "Cataventoré". 10 tracks
2010 - Participation with 1 track on the CD dedicated to the contemporary musical scene from Minas Gerais, that accompanied the British Magazine Songlines issue #70, from aug-sep/2010.

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Fife and drum form one of the most spread out instrumental combinations in the Brazilian inlands and are the source for Cataventoré’s musical work. The band began its carrier in the year 2000 in Belo Horizonte (the city best known as the birthplace for the Clube da Esquina Movement). But it was the traditional culture of Northeast Brazil and Minas Gerais State that set the artistic path of the group. The instrumentation includes fifes, cavaquinho (small acoustic guitar), zabumba (bass drum), tambourine, snare drum, side drum, triangle, cymbals, maracas, reco-reco (scraping instrument), ilu (conga), agogo, whistles and more. Several of the instruments are made by the band members themselves. At presenting a variety of elements of Brazilian culture, together with an appreciable compositional work, the band consolidated itself in the local music scene and is becoming progressively known around the country and also abroad.

In 2004, the band made its first studio work, when it was one of the eight winners, among 550 participants in the contest festival “Conexão Telemig Celular de Música: New trends in the music of Minas Gerais”. In the festival’s resulting collective CD, the group recorded one of the tracks along with Uakti’s members Paulo Santos and Décio Ramos.

In 2008, it recorded the first album, “Cataventoré”, an essentially authorial work, that includes eight compositions by the band and two other tracks, by Brazilian Northeastern composers. The CD was well received by the public and successfully launched in the following year in a tour around the Brazilian States of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceará and Pará. One of the album tracks, the samba “No terreiro”, was selected to the CD dedicated to the contemporary musical scene from Minas Gerais, that accompanied the British Magazine Songlines issue #70, from aug-sep/2010.

Cataventoré has performed along with important musicians of Brazilian instrumental music scene such as Sebastião Tapajós, Paulo Santos and Décio Ramos of Uakti, Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru, Mestre Luiz Paixão, Banda de Pífanos de Bendegó, João do Pífano, among others. In its performance, the band presents its own compositions, as well as a Brazilian instrumental repertoire, that covers different genres and rhythms, such as samba, chorinho, congado, maracatu and a selection of baiões and arrasta-pés in the best Brazilian fife-and-drum tradition.