Lisbonne - Portugal

SCÚRU FITCHÁDU

A FURIOUS RITUAL OF LIBERATION FROM SLAVERY, SCÚRU FITCHÁDU [DEEP DARK IN CAPE VERDEAN CREOLE] IS RAGE AND FIGHT.

Scúru Fitchádu represents a direct reference to both the cape verdean music and african matrix, within a punk aesthetic and disruptive electronics where are aligned influences and crossings so disparate from different musical universes.

His revolutionary live performances have taken him to clubs, showcases and festivals in Portugal and around the world. In January 2020, he released the first full-length entitled “Un Kuza Runhu” [A Bad Thing], earning its place on the list of the best portuguese albums released that same year by specialized media, who still considered Scúru as one of the freshest and most vital projets of this era.

“Nez Txada skúru dentu skina na braku fundu” is a conceptual album which was inspired by the revolutionary pro-African independence movements, their interventions, guidelines, and cultural legacies, establishing a conducting line to a poetic interpretation of the current urban spectrum. This 11 track record, whose sound aspires to a more experimental level, has a strong focus on orality, with subversive and protest rhetoric. From griots to riots Afrohardbass poetic violence.

Album “Nez Txada skúru dentu skina na braku fundu” 2023

FEEDBACK

« Scuru Fitchadu’s performance was amazing and he really brought his fire. » – Bushfire festival, Eswatini – Mai 2023 

« The band was fucking brilliant !! Best act at the festival. » – Brad Holmes, Bushfire Festival, South of Africa – May 2023 

« Scuru en live ? C’est quelque chose qui n’existe pas vraiment, ça bouscule, ça perturbe, avec une violente bienveillance. » – Benoit Van Kote, Co-directeur / Programmateur à l’Espace Django, Strasbourg – Mars 2023

« C’était un bonheur d’accueillir l’équipe de Scúru Fitchádu qui nous ont délivré une prestation hors norme. Un objet artistique hors du commun, puissant, engageant et qui nous a tous scotché dans l’équipe et dans le public.

La programmation de cet artiste et les retours que l’on a eu et que l’on continue d’avoir du public me confortent dans ma volonté de continuer de proposer ce type de projets, engagés artistiquement et avec une profondeur poétique qui ne laisse personne indifférent. » – Maxime Rimmelé, programmateur à Le Gueulard Plus, Nilvange – Mars 2023

PRESS

TSUGI, 30 juin 2022, Clémence Meunier

« “It was the slap of the festival. Well, maybe not even a slap: a big fairground slap, a diagonal mandal … We could very well see this live show on the program of a hardcore party, which allows itself a few rare moments of respite, on the accordion for example, before the energy comes back in the breathless bodies of the band, in trance. A trance shared by Praia, while the audience was made up of kids as much as mothers, curious and quickly carried away onlookers as well as fans who knew the lyrics in Kriol. A mandal we said ” » 

PAN AFRICAN MUSIC, 8 septembre 2022, Christian Askin

They have the crowd’s full attention. Rolling through a series of hardcore cuts with some experimental dub detours, the public slowly lets loose enough to jump, dance and howl. […]

Young kids’ eyes are wide with excitement at this rebellious spectacle. The parents and grandmothers smile from further back. Cape Verde’s precious sound, once oppressed now expressed with headbanging freedom, is brought home imbued with industrial noise and new political power. Everyone claps and cheers.