Tickets 150 pesos at Tecolote Bookstore
Coming April, 2012, legendary percussionist Cyro Baptista (Sting, John Zorn, Yo-Yo Ma) and Neo jazz-rock burners A Love Electric will combine for a tour of Mexico that will serve as part philanthropy, part record release, and part creation. For two weeks, A Love Electric (Clouser, Hecht, Cruz, Aanderud, Allen) and Cyro will be traveling through the country, providing workshops to area youth, performing in some of Mexico's most celebrated venues, and recording two pieces of music highlighting their interaction with children of all socioeconomic backgrounds and experience as "musicians". Each performance will feature a set of music from Cyro (40 min), a set of A Love Electric (60 min), and culminate in a collaborative performance (20 min). Workshops will take place throughout the tour at selected schools, culture and charity centers, and feature an engaging, inclusive, and spirited opportunity for all children to discover and develop their own voice through sound. The tour confronts the traditional model of bands out on the road, leaving behind a "perform and sell" approach for an interactive experience for communities as well as the musicians, all working towards the creation of the final product of new music.
Since arriving in the U.S. in 1980 from his native country Brazil, Cyro Baptista has emerged as one of the premier percussionists in the United States and abroad. Coinciding with the rise in the public’s interest of world music, Cyro has managed to record and tour with some of music’s most popular names. His mastery of Brazilian percussion and the many instruments he creates himself, have catapulted him into world renown.
With his own project, the percussion and dance ensemble known as 'Beat the Donkey' Cyro gives free reign to his imagination, mixing his tremendous musical skills, his natural humor and theatrical ways with instruments from Brazil, Middle East, Indonesia, Africa and US.
Cyro's credits read like a "Who’s Who" of modern music. He toured extensively with Yo-Yo Ma's Brazil Project, Trey Anastasio's Band (of Phish), John Zorn's Electric Masada, Herbie Hancock's Grammy award winning "Gershwin’s World" , Sting and Paul Simon's "Rhythm of the Saints". (
www.cyrobaptista.com)
A Love Electric embodies the international spirit of the creative music scene, featuring players from Mexico, the United States, and Argentina, touring throughout Latin America, the USA, and Europe. The band, led by guitarist Todd Clouser, and their unique brand of groove inflected jazz rock have risen from a small club act to being signed by renowned Ropeadope Records and on to Royal Potato Family Records (New York, NY) in just one year. The A Love Electric concert is a must see for any fan of creative music, the 5 musicians, all masters of their craft, creating an energy explorative and driving. The infectious live show has taken A Love Electric to stages from Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA to Jazz Dock in Prague, Czech Republic to Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
A Love Electric will be releasing two new records as part of the tour, the cover's-centered "20th Century Folk Selections, featuring songs by 60's protest singer Malvina Reynolds to the Beastie Boys, and the all-original "Entre". Both albums feature Cyro Baptista as a guest. (
www.aloveelectric.com)
" A blistering neo-jazz rock quintet" - The Prague Post, June 15 2011
"An impressive modern outfit that takes its cues from fuzzed-out acid rock and laid-back vintage funk." - TIME OUT NYC, Dec 2011
"(Cyro is)…The man the stars call when they want that otherworldly flavor in the mix…" - Time Out New York
Cyro Baptista y A Love Electric, girando juntos.
En el próximo mes de abril del 2012, Cyro Baptista legendario percusionista Brasileño (Sting, John Zorn, Yo-Yo Ma) y A Love Electric, banda explosiva de Neo Jazz-Rock, realizarán juntos una gira por México, la cual tendrá tres facetas, una filantrópica, el lanzamiento de un nuevo disco de estudio y un espacio para la creación. A Love Electric (Clouser, Hecht, Cruz, Aanderud, Allen) y Cyro, viajarán por México durante dos semanas, ofreciendo talleres para niños y jóvenes de escasos recursos, tocarán en los principales foros del país y grabarán dos piezas musicales destacando la interacción con los niños y los músicos experimentados.
Cada presentación ofrecerá un set musical de 40 minutos por parte de Cyro Baptista y uno de 60 minutos por parte de A Love Electric, culminando con 20 minutos de Cyro y A Love Electric juntos.
Los talleres ofrecidos durante la gira se impartirán en escuelas, centros de cultura y centros de caridad, de esta manera los participantes tendrán la oportunidad única de descubrir y desarrollar su propia voz a través del sonido. Esta gira romperá con el modelo tradicional de “Tocar y cobrar”, mediante el acercamiento a la comunidad y a los músicos, con el único objetivo de crear música.
Cyro Baptista Desde que Cyro Baptista arribó a los Estados Unidos en 1980 procedente de Brasil, su país natal, emergió como uno de los percusionistas más creativos y constantes a lo largo y ancho del territorio norteamericano. Cyro ha logrado grabar y hacer giras con músicos de gran calidad y renombre. Su maestría en la percusión brasileña y los instrumentos musicales que él mismo crea lo han catapultado a recorrer todo el mundo llevando su música. Con su proyecto de percusión y danza conocido como “Beat the Donkey”, Cyro da rienda suelta a su imaginación, combinando sus habilidades musicales, su natural sentido del humor y su faceta teatral, utilizando instrumentos musicales
de Brasil, Medio Oriente, Indonesia, África y los Estados Unidos. Cyro ha compartido giras mundiales con el proyecto brasileño Yo-Yo Ma´s, Trey Anastasio´s Band (of Phish), Masada de John Zorn, con Herbie Hancock, ganador de un grammy con “Gershwin´s World, además de colaborar con Sting y Paul Simon en “Rhythm of the Saints”. (www.cyrobaptista.com).
“(Cyro es….), el hombre al cual las estrellas llaman cuando quieren un sabor onírico en la mezcla…” -Time Out News
An original play, a young man's adventure in the netherworld, his meeting with Quetzalcoatl, a Mexican demi-god, and his struggle to bring an ancient corn back to his people. With masks & dance. 
