"Our music is a mix like the Brazilian culture. The idea is to use various different sources producing a worldly sound with a local accent, and vice-versa."
Arthur Pessoa, Cabruera

Cabruera means literally, a bunch of goats. In northeast Brazil it's sometimes used as a not entirely polite descriptive word for people of mixed race. It's also the name of one of the most exciting bands in Brazil today and they bear the name proudly and defiantly to signify their affinity with the cultural roots of their rural backgrounds.

Formed in 1998 by Arthur Pessoa, who gave up his anthropology studies and started playing his guitar with a pen instead. That is to say, he picked up a cheap ballpoint pen and began to rub the strings of his acoustic guitar with it, creating a sound that is a mix of a cello and a berimbau. Inspired by the late great Chico Science's Mangue Beat movement, he gathered around himself a prodigiously talented posse of players and set out to delve back into the roots and rediscover the joys of the northeast's myriad musical forms - Maracutu, Martelos, Cocos, Cirandas to name but a few and to relive the energy of the Forro parties of their formative years.

Who let the goats out? Forro goes forward

Press Quotes

Booking

Line up

• Arthur Pessoa (vocals, accordion, guitars, percussion)
• Fabiano Soares (vocals, bass, guitar)
• Fredi Guimaraes (guitars, percussion)
• Tom Rocha (vocals, percussion)
• Zé Guilherme (vocals, percussion)

Links

• Cabruera 's Website
• Cabruera on MySpace