Cali

Difficult to find a suitable label for the output of Pixvae. Afro-latin core? Post-free trash? Radical modern-crad? It can be a good sign when a sound defies words. This Colombo-Lyonnais combo produces a cocktail that is of excoriating nature and intoxicating style. With high-pitched vocals and screaming saxophone, high-powered drums and saturated guitar, Pixvae burns with the energy of polyrhythms, pulsing its traditional essence out of the much-ploughed furrows into the field of mixed-blood reality. More than that, the experience goes right to the heart of our present, here and now. It’s all about creating a new frontier -- neither here nor there but just beyond -- to build a repertoire-territory where music of every kind can collide, question, interpenetrate, all the better to regenerate itself. Get into the trance!