"Satanique Samba Trio, which seizes the listener with terribly acidic, hallucinogenic intellectual fuck folk, is 'satanic' in that it flies in the face of the pugnacious conservatism of Brasilia's traditional samba scene"
- LAST FM
Satanique Samba Trio is an instrumental avant-garde quintet (yep, not really a trio), founded in
2003 with the sole purpose of posing as an idiosyncratic force on the Brazilian musical landscape.
No Brazilian traditional rhythm remains unscathed on Satanique Samba Trio’s trail of desecration.
From samba to forró, from bossa nova to lambada, this Brasília-based quintet (sometimes sextet)
has been adding virulence, dissonance and provocation to Brazil’s musical heritage.
Their efforts
on deconstructing Brazilian music’s most persistent clichés have resulted in 14 records so
far: Misantropicalia (2004), Sangrou (2007), Bad Trip Simulator #2 (2010), Bad Trip Simulator #1
(2011), Bad Trip Simulator #3 (2013), Badtriptych (a 2014 compilation released by Far Out
Recordings), Mó Bad (2015), the double 7-inch vinyl Xenossamba (2017), the world’s first liquid
album Instant Karma (2019), Mais Bad (2019), Forrível (2020), Mini Bad (2021), Cursed Brazilian
Beats Vol. 2 (2023) and Só Bad (2023). Upcoming: Cursed Brazilian Beats Vol. 1.
Satanique Samba Trio kicked off in 2003. After hundreds of memorable shows all over Brazilian
soil (some of them on the same bills as Tom Ze, Nana Vasconcelos or Hermeto Pascoal), the band
went to Europe for the first time in 2016. From Denmark to Greece Satanique Samba Trio
introduced its disassembled versions of Brazilian traditional rhythms to unexpecting European
ears.
In 2017 and 2019 the Brazilian enfants terribles went back for two more tours (this time with
the support of a substantial fanbase), marking their presence in festivals like Music Meeting
(Netherlands), Leffingeleuren (Belgium) and Moers (Germany). They have played in well-known
venues like Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Recyclart (Brussels) or Alice (Copenhagen). Two of their
concerts have been recorded by major broadcasters VPRO (Netherlands) and WDR (Germany). In
Spring 2025, after a (post-)covid hiatus, they will finally hit Europe again, this time to promote their
upcoming 7-inch vinyl Cursed Brazilian Beats Vol. 1 (Rebel Up! Records).
Satanique Samba Trio has also made its way into a great number of musical compilations, such as
A Nova Música do Brasil/ New Music From Brazil (The Guardian newspaper - UK), AM Soundz
(Aktion Mutante - Austria), Braz-ILL (Gonzo Circus / Red Bull Music Academy - Belgium) and, of
course, as expected from such an unusual instrumental act, a couple of movies (A Curtição do Avacalho by Petter Baiestorf, Fixation Element by Murilo Seabra, É Nóis by Alex Vidigal, etc).
LINEUP:
Group Size: 5 Artists + 1 tour manager
Munha da 7 - bass
Jota Dale - cavaco and electric guitar
Lupa Marques - drums and percussions
DJ Beep Dee - clarinet and keyboards
Chico Oswald - saxophones and flutes
STREAMING
Press quotes
"Sataniqeu Samba Trio offer a message from the void within ourselves. It is a musically evolutionary phoenix rising from hot, scalding ashes and raising you up as a sacrifice to jazz, to folk, to the strains of world music, to prog, to math music… it is a paean to brilliance"
- Last FM
"More avant-pagode madness from Brasilia's
favourite sons. I love this band's irreverent humour and the way that they constantly put
themselves down while producing some truly original takes on traditional Brazilian genres such as
samba and samba jazz. They may describe the music itself as low-fidelity Brazilian music, but
there's a helluva lot more at play here. (...) Everything is between a minute and a minute and a
half, and within these limitations they play samba as though played by an acoustic Magic Band
.
As the album develops the tracks seem to become even more demented and deconstructed and,
as with the Magic Band, you know they can play their instruments really well, but they just choose
to sound like this.
"Creating a maximum groove with minimal means" - Andy Cumming
- Sounds and Colours 6 Dec 2023
"Satanique Samba Trio is quick, calculated and surprisingly fun
”
- Yeah I Know It Sucks 23 Jan 2024)
VIDEOS
Altos Traumas
Official Video
Lambaphomet
badtriptronics #50
peça para pó, pele e osso em 10/8 [rehearsal - 2022]t
Cursed Brasilian Beats
"Satanique Samba Trio, which seizes the listener with terribly acidic, hallucinogenic intellectual fuck folk, is 'satanic' in that it flies in the face of the pugnacious conservatism of Brasilia's traditional samba scene" - LAST FM
Satanique Samba Trio is an instrumental avant-garde quintet (yep, not really a trio), founded in 2003 with the sole purpose of posing as an idiosyncratic force on the Brazilian musical landscape. No Brazilian traditional rhythm remains unscathed on Satanique Samba Trio’s trail of desecration. From samba to forró, from bossa nova to lambada, this Brasília-based quintet (sometimes sextet) has been adding virulence, dissonance and provocation to Brazil’s musical heritage.
Their efforts on deconstructing Brazilian music’s most persistent clichés have resulted in 14 records so far: Misantropicalia (2004), Sangrou (2007), Bad Trip Simulator #2 (2010), Bad Trip Simulator #1 (2011), Bad Trip Simulator #3 (2013), Badtriptych (a 2014 compilation released by Far Out Recordings), Mó Bad (2015), the double 7-inch vinyl Xenossamba (2017), the world’s first liquid album Instant Karma (2019), Mais Bad (2019), Forrível (2020), Mini Bad (2021), Cursed Brazilian Beats Vol. 2 (2023) and Só Bad (2023). Upcoming: Cursed Brazilian Beats Vol. 1.
Satanique Samba Trio kicked off in 2003. After hundreds of memorable shows all over Brazilian soil (some of them on the same bills as Tom Ze, Nana Vasconcelos or Hermeto Pascoal), the band went to Europe for the first time in 2016. From Denmark to Greece Satanique Samba Trio introduced its disassembled versions of Brazilian traditional rhythms to unexpecting European ears.
In 2017 and 2019 the Brazilian enfants terribles went back for two more tours (this time with the support of a substantial fanbase), marking their presence in festivals like Music Meeting (Netherlands), Leffingeleuren (Belgium) and Moers (Germany). They have played in well-known venues like Bimhuis (Amsterdam), Recyclart (Brussels) or Alice (Copenhagen). Two of their concerts have been recorded by major broadcasters VPRO (Netherlands) and WDR (Germany). In Spring 2025, after a (post-)covid hiatus, they will finally hit Europe again, this time to promote their upcoming 7-inch vinyl Cursed Brazilian Beats Vol. 1 (Rebel Up! Records).
Satanique Samba Trio has also made its way into a great number of musical compilations, such as A Nova Música do Brasil/ New Music From Brazil (The Guardian newspaper - UK), AM Soundz (Aktion Mutante - Austria), Braz-ILL (Gonzo Circus / Red Bull Music Academy - Belgium) and, of course, as expected from such an unusual instrumental act, a couple of movies (A Curtição do Avacalho by Petter Baiestorf, Fixation Element by Murilo Seabra, É Nóis by Alex Vidigal, etc).
LINEUP:
Group Size: 5 Artists + 1 tour manager