It was during carnival, the annual culmination point of samba, that the group Q'Saliva has paraded its original accessories for the first time. It did not happen in any large samba avenue, on a neighbourhood ball or street performance. The trio of musicians actually locked themselves inside a small farmhouse in the countryside of São Paulo, and only left after accomplishing the very one goal: transforming MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) into the electronic music and vice versa.

Felipe Pegoraro, Ligia Kamada and Pablo Casella, the musketeers from Q'Saliva, all with more than 10 years of experience in both classical and popular music, have found that path. The results of it do not refer back to the fashion of soft Brazillian chansons with computerized drum sets running in the background. On the CD 'dela', recorded independently, featuring only six handwritten compositions, you can listen to ten themes forming an organic synthesis made of Brazillian curves and electronic calculus.

The tunes of tambourins and guitars emerge from the tracks spilling out on the dancefloor. The house and electro-funk-influences come live in the hand claps, triangles, match boxes and even the meows of a female cat. Teodora, the feline, is not the only special participant in the act.

Hugo Hori (flute and sax), Betinho Sodré (cuíca - a brazilian friction-drum), Flavio Ianuzi (keyboards and trumpet), Henrique Migliano (bass-guitar) and Fernandão (berimbau) also add some spice to this dish. Even before its release in Brazil, the sound of Q'Saliva is on its way to Europe, with performances in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.

Q'Saliva is:
Felipe Pegoraro: bases, bass guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, percussion and voice. Ligia Kamada: percussion and voice. Pablo Casella: acustic guitar, cavaquinho (a small string-instrument similar to the hawaiian Ukulele), keyboards, percussion and voice.

by Cassiano Elleck Machado