HHY & THE MACUMBAS
The Macumbas are formed by a cast of musicians assembled by HHY (Jonathan Saldanha) to perform a barrage of percussion, sub-bass pressure, horns and echoes. Based in Porto, they are influenced by electricity, ceremonial percussion, ecstatic chaos and suburban landscapes. Using Dub to unravel the sonic spectrum and rhythms from the mental jungle, their audiovisual language is evocative of jazz as imagined and practiced by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, in collusion with a visual fascination for voodoo cosmology, openly reveling in the cultural influence of figures such as Ballard, Sherwood, Burroughs and Carpenter.