Loosely translated, Batucada means percussive samba jam. Throw in two guitars, bass, keyboard, a slick horn section and one of the Pacific’s finest MCs, and you have Batucada Sound Machine.
With influences from bands such as Ozomatli, Manu Chao and Fela Kuti, BSM are fast developing a reputation for their diversity, musicality and collective impulsiveness – a BSM set can be a 2 hour long musically enlightening tour through a variety of different tempos, timings, beats, styles and rhymes.
The rapidly rising popularity of BSM has resulted in the band making the bill at numerous well respected events over the past 18 months, alongside global heavyweights Damien Marley, Michael Franti and The Cat Empire.
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