Thursday, 21/12. This date should remain in the memory of people who visited Coppola Music – another edition of the itinerant music project 2 in 1 took place there. The project consists of always taking two names from national independent music to perform in various concert halls across the country. city. In 2005, the project, organized by Rita Damasceno and Rodrigo Araújo, took place at Avenida Clube, but this year it changed location. This time those chosen to take the Coppola stage were Tetine and Comma. There were also nightclubs, including Ida Feldman and Marcio Banfi. It was around midnight when the band Comma started their performance and it was really cool. Comma is a duo formed by a lesbian couple. Érica plays the guitar while her girlfriend is responsible for the drums. Together they play nice songs with the atmosphere of an American film soundtrack that shows life in a very peaceful city. Most of the sapphic duo's lyrics are in English, but the girls have no recorded material yet. The most anticipated moment, of course, was Tetine's time to take the stage. When the duo formed by Eliete Mejorado and Bruno Verner took the stage there was a certain frenzy among those present. There was an expectation in the air as it had been a while since the duo had performed here. Responsible for spreading and taking Rio funk outside the country, Tetine killed it. The best moments of the night were certainly when they played their incredible remixes of classics such as Fama de Putona, by Tati Quebra Barraco, and Lick My Favela. What surprises most about Tetine is the duo's energy on stage. Eliete and Bruno shake, dance and roll to the floor. Eliete had a ponytail tied to his shorts and Bruno had a little hat in the “funk bro” style. His lyrics mix tchutchuca and “eu sou tirão” – as Bruno sang. “I Go to the Doctor” and “Pelada do Flamengo” remixed and sung based on “London Calling” by The Clash. Check out the interview with Bruno Verner, from Tetine, below: Do you like performing here? Of course, definitely. If we could, we would do a lot more shows here. Tetine's next CD will be released in Japan, Europe and the USA. Why don't they release a CD here in Brazil? Our next album will be released by an English record label, so it won't come out here. In Brazil we have a CD released, which is Bonde do Tetão, from 2004. Why carioca funk? In 2001, when Eliete and I were already living in London and no one liked Rio funk, we discovered funk and fell in love. At that time we also became friends with DJ Marlboro who sent us his entire collection with countless funk songs. Then we started presenting the radio program about Rio funk. We made a collection of 18 remixes that was released in Europe. It was the first compilation of its kind released outside Brazil. When we discovered funk we said “holy shit, this is the sound of the future, funk is the dance music of the 21st century”. And our intention was to show this, that Brazilian music was not just bossa nova, mpb, that in Brazilian music there was a very unique attitude. We were impressed with the performance of the funk girls. From there, Bonde do Tetão resulted, when we decided to do our remixes, our lyrics and create this “electrofunk” with our own style. How does the public out there react to the songs? It reacts well, people tend to like it. But it also depends a lot on the place. Sometimes when we perform, people just stare at us, but sometimes the crowd gets infected, gets on stage, jumps, dances, shakes, and has a lot of fun. There are people who go up on stage, or when we go down, who try to take off our clothes. In Germany there was a crazy guy who came up on stage, grabbed me and I was actually scared. In your opinion, what is Tetine's best CD? This is a difficult question. It depends, I like them all. Each one represents a phase, has a story, but if I had to choose one I think it would be “Música de Amor” from 1999, which is another side of Tetine, very different from what you saw here. There's a piano, a violin, it's beautiful and very special to me.
