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Samba Reggae intermediate-workshop
Bad Wildungen, 27th-29th march 2015
We are absolutely thrilled to be able to introduce one of Rio’s best known manufacturers of Samba Percussion instruments to the European audience of this years Coburg Samba Festival. The authentic sound and look of IVSOM instruments has been a successfully growing part of Kalango’s percussion assortment in the past few years. IVSOM is an active part of Rio’s Samba community, playing caixa at the famous Samba school Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel. As Sambista and craftsman IVSOM has the knowledge and feeling it takes to make first class Rio Samba percussion. He will be at the Kalango stand open for any kind of questions or input. It’s his first time in Europe, please give him a warm welcome!
Another workshop tour with Serrinha and Chris for 2013! Kalango will be supporting this Europe wide tour with a 10% discount voucher for every samba band that books one of their workshops.
During the past workshop tours in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Serrinha and Chris gave lessons in many different cities throughout Europe (Paris, Vienna, Bologna, Budapest, Tours, Rotterdamm, Berlin, Porto, Napoli, Glasgow, etc.) and are going to continue this “tradition” in spring/summer of 2013.
The workshop goal and general contents will be attuned to the particular band or participants, but basically Serrinha and Chris will be working on techniques, grooves and timing.
Serrinha will be mainly and intensively teaching the Caixas, while Chris’ focus lies on the Surdos, Repiques, Tamborins and Chocalhos.
We have finally managed to find a workshop for beautiful looking and sounding Atabaques: Tião do Atabaque from Rio de Janeiro manufacters drums in the traditional manner with sturdy hardwood and beautiful best choice goatskin heads.
We are offering the Atabaques in the 3 traditional sizes: Lê ( 90 cm high, 9″ diameter ), Rumpi ( 100 cm high, 10″ diameter ), and Rum ( 120 cm high, 12″ diameter ). Tension hooks enable it to easily tune the drums as high as you prefer. An additional goody is the Rumpi with a tradional rope tuning system as alternative.
Every Atabaque comes with a simple round steel stand.
Enjoy playing and hearing the typical Capoeira rhythmes, the ritual Candomblé or Umbanda Toques, or the the wild grooves of the Samba de Roda with these absolutely authentic drums!
It may not be possible to reinvent the wheel anew … but it really looks like somebody has managed to invent a completely new type of Caixa and Repinique by merely replacing the solid corpus with a sturdy, bodiless construction.
For the 9th time in a row we are preparing to pack our beloved little tent, various displays and tables, and above all a handpicked selection of our large assortment and jet to Coburg. We are really looking forward to all the new and well-known samba g
TIMBRA is the name of a brandnew percussion line that the brazilian manufacturer IZZO will be presenting at the Musikmesse Frankfurt this year. The modern design and top
quality of the entire range of samba percussion instruments ( Surdo, Pandeiro, Timbal, Repenique, Caixa and Cuica) is a real eyecatcher!
The standards for these instruments have been set up together with top musicians, like Rumpilezz and Chiclete com Banana from Salvador/Bahia.
They not only took influence on the developement of the instruments, they also put the prototypes to the acid test. The result of this absolutely professional
liaison are for example 90cm high Timbals in wood and aluminium which are all equiped with 16 tension hooks for high tuning! Of course this grade of perfection
will surely demand an adequate price but on the other hand these instruments seem to be very promising.
Timbal Workshop with Dudu Tucci in Berlin
30.03. - 01.04.2012
The Timba, a neat little hand drum, stands out from the Bateria but also requires special attention if you want to exhaust its whole potential.
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Serrinha is the caixa director of the sambaschool Estácio de Sá, leads his own carnival bloco in Rio de Janeiro and is a well known percussionist in various “rodas de samba”. He is widely known as one of “the best” caixa players in Rio de Janeiro, and he is a very nice person with a modest character. He is used to give workshops for “gringos”, therefore he is perfect for teaching both, beginners and experienced sambistas.
Chris travels to Rio every year during the carnival season and since 2004 he has played the tamborim at Unidos da Tijuca. Further information about Chris can be found here.
In 2009 Serrinha and Chris developed a unique system together to lead workshops by. Attention will be focussed on developing the special techniques of the different instruments.
The workshop aim and content will be considered separately to suit the styles and demands of each band.
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In the past we have offered Artcelsior caixas and repeniques in 2 different product lines: one version with aluminium shell and chromed tension rods and rims, and as alternative all in zinced steel. Two options with very different sound characteristics ( steel shells produce a significant dry sound!) and therefore an important part of our assortement. Since instruments with a steel shell are are much heavier we offer surdos only with an aluminium body and chromed steel hardware.
Chrome plating has become so expensive in the past few years that instruments with chrome plated hardware have more or less disappeared from the brazilian market. In order to be able to offer Artcelsior instruments for reasonable prices in the future, we have decided to follow this trend and from now on can supply not only caixa and repinique with zinced hardware, but also all sizes of surdos.
From 13th of april to may 2012 you can book Workshops and lessons with Mestre Jonas and Bruninho.
More information with Nana Zeh: nana@rio-production.de