Seu Jorge and Almaz wrapped their North American tour this past Saturday at Downtown L.A.’s Club Nokia. Before the show, the band and members of tour’s production crew – and a host of friends and family – gathered backstage as Seu Jorge waxed poetic on the three-week journey. Photos from the show coming tomorrow.
Yesterday Seu Jorge and Almaz performed an intimate private party sponsored by Sagatiba cachaça, Cafune Produções and Now-Again Records at West Hollywood’s Palihouse Hotel. Afterwards, guests mingled with Almaz and the likes of directors Michel Gondry and Jose Padilha as Almaz producer Mario C DJed. Tonight, Seu Jorge and Almaz wrap up their North American Tour at downtown LA’s Club Nokia.
Photos: Seu Jorge and Almaz at Palihouse Hotel, Los Angeles.
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.”)
Seu Jorge and Almaz performed what the Boston Globe has described as “a celebration” at Boston’s Royale this past Saturday. After the show, they took a few minutes to peruse West African psychedelic, funk, afro-beat and highlife records offered for sale by celebrated Nigerian collector Uchenna Ikonne before heading North to the border for their show at the Osheaga Festival in Montreal.
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.
