CURRENT MISSION

Playing music. Taking Guitarrada everywhere.

ABOUT ME

While the city of Belém arises a dozen of authorial bands, when Brazil’s attention is finally being directed to North, and the “Guitarrada” style has been consolidated more and more strong in the brazilian phonographic business, a band created by Music students of State of Pará University made his entrance in the independent scene showing an open-minded personality and a diversity of rhythms which came right on time.
Mixing rock, merengue, surf music, brega and, of course, Pará’s Guitarrada, the group formed by Adriano Sousa (drums), Fabrício Jomar (bass), Diego Muralha (electric guitar), Luiz Félix (voice, electric guitar & percussion), Rodolfo Santana (keyboards) and Kleber PSB (percussion) showed up in the most convenient moment that a band with these influences could appear. In the same time the astonishment with the Masters of Guitarrada came up and Brazil met Aldo Sena, Curica and Vieira - who has been amplifying their equipment in direct line and with no effects -, the group just wanted its public to keep their ears closer to the sound and to keep them dancing.
Inspired by all these influences, the music students created a research project in the university called Guitarrada – a música instrumental com sotaque parense (Guitarrada – an instrumental music with Pará`s accent), based in the music of the three Masters of Guitarrada. After it, they tried to add into their songs the influences of Dick Dale, The Clash, Pink Floyd, Buena Vista Social Club, etc. Then you ask: “Is it rock?”. Not exactly. But, what’s the problem? Can’t you listen because of this?
The band’s début was in the Rec Beat Festival, in Recife, for a public of 5000 people. An unusual beginning for some guys with no pretension of creating a band. Nowadays, La Pupuña is hype in Belém, playing almost every day in many pubs in the city. It’s been like this since Belém discovered this intelligent and experimental fusion which put the pupuñeros surrounded by women dancing in a sensual atmosphere that would make Rick Martin dies in jealousy.

PHILOSOPHY

We want to play our music and consolidate our group.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We travel a lot and sometimes we chose places and events which can't or don't pay for accomodation. Although this condition there are situations in which we have to invest in and, in this case, we hope you can receive us or only one, two of us.
We are 6 in the band.
And if you come to Belem, we live in the very downtown and we are conected to cultural events and places.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We are beginning now. We hope use it in our next travel. We have 2 shows in Austin, TX, USA, this March.

Interests

Music;
Business.

• festivals
• dancing
• clubbing
• pub crawls
• traveling
• investing
• music
• guitar
• drums
• instrumental music
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

Many...

GUITARRADA, Latin, Progressive Rock, Brazilian Rythms...

World Music!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We've seen punk and metal fans dancing together with our music.

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitarrada, rythms... our folk and contemporary music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, France, Germany

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil