BAQUE LUAR
Roof-raising percussion and vocal collective
BIO
Baque Luar is a London-based collective of female and non-binary vocalists and percussionists from diverse backgrounds, united by their love of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian roots music. Their music focuses on honouring feminine power and creativity, acknowledging struggles against oppression and praising nature at this critical ecological moment.
Drawing inspiration from the rich soundscapes and traditions of maracatu, coco, bumba meu boi, tambores de Minas, and ciranda as well as sacred rhythms of Brazilian Candomblé, Baque Luar combines original multivocal compositions and arrangements with powerful percussive grooves. .Meaning ’moonlit beat’, Baque Luar is also an ongoing exploration of feminine rhythmic creativity, engaging critically with gender imbalances in drumming traditions worldwide as well as the music industry at large. With a unique mixture of intricate arrangements, vocal harmonies, dance, movement and a spectacular array of DRUMS, Baque Luar will rock you.
SUMMER 2024
UPCOMING GIGS: https://linktr.ee/baqueluar
Saturday 20th April: La Linea Festival, Fox and Firkin (London)
Saturday 25th May: Norwich Festival (Norwich)
Saturday 8th June: The Dutch Church (London)
Saturday 22nd June: Coed Solstice Festival (Coed Hills, Wales)
Friday 5th July: Deal Festival (Kent)
Saturday 6th July: Love Supreme Festival (Glynde)
Friday 16th August: Medicine Festival (Reading)
BAQUE LUAR'S DEBUT ALBUM BRILHA
OUT NOW!
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Baque Luar's debut album Brilha is a work of praise for this earth and for the human and beyond-human connections which nourish us. It features a collaboration with Maracatu Leão Coroado (the oldest maracatu nation in the world), amongst an array of powerful original tracks. It explores the group’s own collective identity, diverse roots and influences. Drawing on rhythms from maracatu, coco, ciranda, congado, caboclinho, Candombe Mineiro, manguebeat, as well as sacred rhythms of Brazilian Candomblé, the record is a story of remembering our place in larger ecosystems of rhythm, spirit, ancestry and nature, and imagining ways forward together.
* The album was made with support from
Arts Council England.*
PAST EVENTS
DANDELION FESTIVAL, GLASGOW
17-18th June 2022