Scúru Fitchádu represents a direct reference to Cape Verde’s national Funaná music and to the “African matrix”, with a punk, electronic and disruptive aesthetic where influences and crossovers from different musical universes align.
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.
His Album, “Nez Txada skúru dentu skina na braku fundu” 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. Its 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.
The new album ‘Griots i Riots’, released on 19 May, offers a corrosive and poetic music set in the present. A physical sound, anti-pop and antagonistic. The album was preceded by a triptych of singles, ‘Du ta morrê’ [We diemos] released in January, ‘Idukasan i saud’ [Education and health] in April, and ‘Símia Kodjê’ [Sowing the harvest] with the participation of Conan Osiris, released in May.
GRIOTS I RIOTS – Link to listen
« Scuru Fitchadu’s performance was amazing and he really brought his fire. »
« The band was fucking brilliant !! Best act at the festival. »
« Scuru en live ? C’est quelque chose qui n’existe pas vraiment, ça bouscule, ça perturbe, avec une violente bienveillance. »
« 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. »
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.
SHOWCASES // Tallin Music Week 24 / AME Cap Vert 22 / WOMEX Porto 21 / MENT 20 / EUROSONIC 19 / MIL 19
Scúru Fitchádu - Voice, concertina, sampler, synths and "ferro"
Gunzu - Synths and fx
Henrique Silva - Guitar, cavaquinho and percussions
