Sat, March 18th: Festa MAKULA @ Espaço Multifoco, Lapa

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To leave a bit of routine Saturday night and dance the best of African music, Afrobeat, our suggestion is  the festival   which rolls into Multifoco, Lapa: The FESTA(party) MAKULA .

The MAKULA is basically a party which plays the best of Afrobeat, the musical genre that takes in jazz, specifically African elements and soulfunky created by Nigerian Fela Kuti. It also present some other African rhythms as highlife, voodoo funk, soul, african, african-rock, soukous and kuduro.

Attending the CDJs makula artists like matata, antibalas , Manu Dibango, frank, tony allen, orchestra baobab, Seun Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, Daktaris etc (besides the founder of that band africa 70, obviously) showing the power of sounds and rhythms repertoire of the black continent in very little times - if ever - run by the majority of DJs from Rio, and even by other states (or countries).

To create the climate of the African Night, movies are displayed on screen.  Music is the theme as Weapon (documentary on Fela Kuti) and ethnographic films of Jean Rouch.

For this anniversary edition, the festival  will present a relic of African music that has its origin right here in Rio de Janeiro: the group Vissungo in the heart of Rio de Janeiro (Lapa) at Multifoco

Always with the brothers Spirito Santo in front of the Vissungo between 1974 and 1996, had a career that was marked by a long season in Europe (Italy and Austria) - more precisely, from 1989 until its end. The group came up with the proposal to merge the diasporic rhythmic heritage of Diamantina, Minas Gerais, and its surroundings - that has its origin in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea, mainly - with modern music which was being produced in Africa, and that both had prestige in Europe. At the time, the group's proposal was not absorbed by the music industry or even properly understood by the critics and the musical community in Brazil, more focused on defense, without nuances, the preservation of cultural forms, pure and simple assimilation of international pop.

The venue Multifoco  scheme operates in a 2 in 1! Besides being a publisher that specializes in publishing new authors, the house works for events of all rhythms.
The two floors of the house parties and house releases. The decor is on account of the numerous objects developed by the studio Objeto Quase and enchants transforming simple match boxes and  

ping-pong in beautiful lights.

 Photo: divulgation

                                   Saturday, March 18th - Espaço Multifoco, Lapa - 11 pm

How Much: R$20 or 15 (friend list: festamakula@gmail.com)

Where: Espaço Multifoco - Av Mende Sá , 1261 - Lapa
Music: African, Afrobeat
Dress Code: Casual  

Obs: You can get a teaser of the musical genre at www.myspace.com/festamakula