Seu Jorge and Almaz are on their way across the country to Vancouver – and then they head south for their West Coast run in the United States. They’re stopping in San Francisco at the Regency Ballroom: buy tickets at the link below and read the article in the SF Weekly (who describe the album as having an “aura of a quiet victory.”)
New York showed plenty of love for Seu Jorge and Almaz. Yesterday, the stalwart website Brooklyn Vegan ran their photos and show review; New York’s biggest newspaper ran an album review. An excerpt from The New York Times:
“It’s pretty blissful music, stubborn in its antiprofessionalism, soulful in its garage-iness. It makes strong and simple rearrangements of formerly lush songs. It’s not trying too hard, and then suddenly it is: in “Cristina,” Seu Jorge hollers the refrain as loud as his voice will go, channeling his source, the singer Tim Maia; in Jorge Ben’s “Errare Humanum Est,” the whole performance, with thick crusts of surf guitar and shuffling drums, takes on a mysterious strength, a trancelike shimmer. ”
Link: Photos of Seu Jorge and Almaz at Brooklyn Vegan.
Check out a bird’s eye view of Seu Jorge and Almaz performing “Rock With You” at the Washington, DC stop on their North American tour. Their East Coast run includes a New York (Friday – Terminal 5) and Boston (Saturday – Royale) show before they cross the border into Canada.
The album will be released – with bonus tracks – in Europe on September 14th; a two-week European tour is scheduled for late October. The album is also available on Rappcats.
The Seu Jorge and Almaz tour starts today in Miami – and just yesterday, the good folks at Burlesque finished their hand silk-screened tour posters. They were whisked off to Fed Ex and they’ll be available at the show tonight. The process that goes into making these lovely things is so labor intensive that we had to post some snaps of the process here.
The posters were designed by Mike Davis and were screen-printed by Burlesque. They are a 19 x 25″, 4-color print on French Blacktop paper.
