MusicBaianasystem updates traditions in new show: ‘The root has a great power’

The world goes around. And in the case of Baianasystemthese turns close cycles, connect influences and draw new paths. After a dive that looks at the inner and outer forces in The future does not take long (2019), the group continued to navigate the newly released The world goes aroundavailable since January 2025.

“Continuity is very important to us. And this album has a more mature understanding of music production, than we want to tell the public. What we are writing in this cave of the world, talking to when we are no longer here,” says the singerist Russian Passapuss the Rolling Stone Brazil.

The group is still understanding the exact meaning of this process. But while The future does not take long highlights the time ideas, The world goes around Talk about places, people and languages. And the collectivity that marks the Baianasystem It is in evidence.

This interconnection gave rise to the “Lundu Rock Show”which goes through the festival João Rock This Saturday, 14, makes an unprecedented stop in Oceania and returns to the Sensational festival on the 28th. For the show, the group prepares a vibrant presentation, which combines all the characteristic artistic expressions of Baianasystem.

“It is a show with the experiences of Afro-Rock, Bahian music, but, above all, that will have different performances in this new walk. It has very good surprises of the five ends of experiences that Bahian It brings: dance, poetry and rhyme, the rock that represents music in this process, the relationship with audiovisual and symbology with masks, which enter the audience as well. The audience is part of the show. “

With roots in Afro Bahian music and popular street demonstrations, the newly starred show leads to a Baianasystem In its most cathartic expression, which balances rock with lundu, the first permission of African music in Brazil. The show is another example of the mixture that characterized the band from the beginning with the union between the Bahian guitar and the Sound System. Although, “Lundu Rock Show” It is more than a simple combination of rhythms.

It is a way of showing that the root has a great power. Our idea is always to highlight the ancestral value. We believe in this futuristic ancestry. It is a past that the future has not yet reached. The fusion comes to value the root. In times of immediacy, a lot of technology and social networks, we use the merger than people have more access to value what they often do not pay attention or do not have access. “

This is a navigated trip together. The show has Elivan Conceiçãowho assumes characters such as Saci and Grand Capim, bringing to the stage the strength of street dance combined with the contemporary dance of Bahia. THE “Lundu Rock Show” reinforces the importance of artistic and visual aesthetics of Baianasystemconceived by Filipe Cartaxo. In the visual arts and projections of the show, he has the collaboration of Cau gomezcartoonist, and CoreBahian visual artist who has an important work on the streets of Salvador.

Also the shine and strength of the breath suit, the drummer Jean Michellwhich opens possibilities in the rhythmic section, and an even stronger presence of the Bahian guitar with Agatha Clarissainstrumentalist representative of the new generation that has in its personal history a very strong connection with this emblematic instrument for our culture. This musical formation will be present at the shows on Brazilian soil.

For the unprecedented agenda in Oceania, the caravan follows with Russian Passapuss (vocal), Roberto Barreto (Bahian guitar), Sekobass (bass and synth), Claudia Manzo (vocal), Ubiratan Marques (keyboards), João Meirelles (bases and electronics), Junix 11 (guitar), Icarus Sá (percussion), Elivan Conceição (dance) and Filipe Cartaxo (audiovisual arts).

With shows in Australia and New Zealand, this return to the world is also an opportunity for new connections and to show that Brazil drinks from sources that come from all over the world. “Relations with masks, tribal art, all this will mix and we are eager, dying to learn from this kind of expression. We are researching, understanding how it will work. It goes through the material and the immaterial.”

Finally, the “Lundu Rock Show” It also stresses that music and behavior go hand in hand. For the Baianasystemthe relationship is beyond gender and rhythm nomenclatures; It is more about emotion, feeling and about naturalizing differences.

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