Portuguese quartet Buraka Som Sistema have whizzed through the last few years of their career, enjoying the fruits of their success with their debut 2008 album Black Diamond. Their infectious mix of raucous and abrasive electro have won the hearts and minds of not only the mainstream press but also the underground world.
The group specializes in an updated form of the traditional African/Spanish genre called Kuduro, a worldly brew best proven on their new single “Restless” released on the Fabric label last year. Their homeland has showered them with five charting singles and an MTV European Music Award in 2008 for best Portuguese act. They are gearing up to release their own take on Fabriclive soon and ready to get down and dirty for their sophomore LP.
Through all this Lisboan mayhem we found some time to sit down and chew the fat with one quarter of Buraka themselves, Kalaf Ângelo.
1. So, what gets you going in the morning?
Beside early checkouts? All sorts of professional obligations such as interviews, flights to catch and etc.
2. What five records would you take to a desert island and why?
Broken Flowers (OST)
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (OST)
In the Mood for Love (OST)
Rockers (OST)
Superfly (OST)
I would just take albums that I associate with images.
3.What inspires you to create?
The curiosity to know and understand why do we consider certain things beautiful and others ugly.
4. What book or piece of literature are you reading at the moment?
Drown by Junot Díaz.
5.Favourite piece of literature and why?
Poems by Paulo Leminski (1944/1989 Brazil). Because of poems like this one:
“Between external duty
And eternal doubt
My commercial
Heart goes
Roundabout”
6.Favorite club or bar?
Right now: Mezzanine, San Francisco. The cosiest venue we ever played at.
7. What one historical figure inspires you or would you like to meet?
I would like to meet Emile Berliner for a tea and show him the iPod.
8. Five movies that you couldn’t live without?
Chungking Express - Wong Kar Wai
Tuvalu - Veit Helmer
Citizen Kane - Orson Wells
La Haine - Mathieu Kassovitz
Howl's Moving Castle - Hayao Miyazaki
9.Favorite director and actor?
Director - Hayao Miyazaki (Japan)
Actress - Fernanda Montenegro (Brazil)
10.Favorite piece of architecture or building?
Casa da Musica by Rem Koolhaas in OPorto-Portugal.
11. Favorite combination of food or recipe?
Nothing fancy. A sea food barbecue - Angola style and for desert some of Conductor's (Andro Carvalho) mother home made ice cream.
12.Favorite musical genre in the last 100 years and what would you mix it with if you could?
There are only two types of music, the one I listen to it and the one I don't listen at all.
13. Favorite Internet site?
http://www.youtube.com
14.Who has had the biggest influence on you in your life?
My friends.
15. What is one record you should never be seen dancing to in a club?
Dragostea Din Tei (Numa Numa Song) by O-Zone.
16. Five music artists currently listening to?
Clipse
Lady Chann
Lvis 1990
The XX
Devendra Banhart
17.Favorite piece of art or artist and why?
Empty Faces collection by Alexandre Farto aka Vhils. Because of the simple reason that I'm a proud owner of one of those pieces.
18. Artist you’d most like to collaborate with?
Banksy
19.One obscure band you think should be more popular?
Nastio Mosquito
20.What is your current ringtone?
My phone is constantly on mute but it vibrates when I receive a call.
21.Do Buraka Som Sistema have a favourite sauce?
Home made Gindungo sauce. Something similar to the image that you can see at the cover of our latest single "Restless". Which basically consists in hot Chillies swimming in a real good Portuguese olive oil mixed up with some other herbs, species and some other secret ingredients.
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