Patch Notes: Tantão e Os Fita
Tantão e Os Fita are an electronic trio from Rio de Janeiro, comprised of visual artist, vocalist and composer Carlos Antônio Mattos aka Tantão, and producers Abel Duarte and Cainã Bomilcar. The trios music, a collision of fractured, noisy beats and halfspoken, halfscreamed vocals, are imbued with a raw punk energy, an influence carried over from Tantãos role in legendary 80s postpunk band, Black Future. In this episode of Patch Notes, Fact filmed the trio performing at a warehouse space that forms part of a traditional samba school in the Brazilian city called Pimpolhos da Grande Rio. The props scattered around Duarte and Bomilcars table of samplers and turntables are a poignant reminder that in a normal year, this weekend would see the Rio Carnival lighting up the citys streets. Tantão e Os Fitas latest album, Piorou, is available now on Rios QTV Label: As part of last years Novas Frequencias festival, the trio created an online sampler that a
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