What is your current state of mind?
Uma metralhadora em estado de graça. A toura da tourada: prontes para essa arena que se expande no mundo. Perfeites na totalidade de nosses erros y eros. Somos errorystas. Quem tem boca, VAIA ROMA. We’re really excited to be back on tour – with such a good team and also playing in such an interesting range of Music Festivals in Europe. We would like to thank MAMBA NEGRA, Urban Jungle, Futura Artists, Limitrophe and all the artists, friends, lovers and fighters from Brazylian independent scene. This victory is all ours, we’re gonna eat the gringos alive.
How would you describe your music style to someone who hasn’t heard it before?
Teto Preto is a convulsive expression of electronic brazylian music. It is music to incarnate and devour, music that happens when we come together to fight for pussyble futures. Music, performance, audiovisual, art, poetry, fashion, graphic design. A live crossing of bodies, canção , dubstep, acid, garage, house, eletro, rock, pop, industrial, and strong elements of samba, jazz, brega, funk as languages from Ameryka.
Founded in November of 2014 by CARNEOSSSO (Laura Diaz,singer, composer, performer – also co-founder of MAMBA NEGRA and the label MAMBArec with Cashu) the band is integrated by William Bica (percussionist and trombone) from the 1st formation of the band, and the new members Mariana Herzer and Matheus Câmara, musicians and music producers that came in during pandemic to build this new explosive era of the 2nd album, FALA. Many new compositions of FALA are finally being presented on stage before recordings. All the production got delayed by many difficulties that the raise of fascism disaster imposed directly and indirectly to the independent queer scene. We are strong, but our community is still vulnerable. Each show has a script by CARNEOSSO created with the band. The creative direction of this new cicle is being developed in partnership between Carneosso and the also independent label Jalaconda – MARINA AVELLO and Juan Duarte. While we don’t have the album release, we’ve produced super queer merchandising with the artist FKawallys to raise found to record the album. Support our independent scene! It is full of energy and emotions from a gang that never walks alone. Also Mariana Herzer has just released her first solo album CHEIA on MAMBArec independent label of MAMBA NEGRA collective. Go listen, buy, support and watch!
Do you consider your body as your strongest weapon to express your beliefs? If yes, why?
Tu Cuerpo Es Una Armada. Our bodies are weapons and what we create as a subjective and material network of women and LGBTQIA+ latin american artists is technology. We are disputing dreams, potencies, urges of our new contradictious bodies that transcend the neoliberal colonized gramatik. We’re errorysts. We are the majority. And I still believe we, as a mass young and queer worldwide movement, can come out of this catastrophic era of pandemic and right wing politics even stronger and harder to kill.
From the underground music scene of São Paulo to a global music environment. How was the transition?
Undeground and Queer art movements had always set fresh historykal paradigmas to the culture and enterteinment business. MAMBA NEGRA, Batekoo and many other independent parties, labels and artists have reached new dimensions resisting to pandemic, that I like to call ‘UnderGRANDE’. In this last 10 years, we’ve created a new perspective for young women and LGBTQIA+ artists to be recognized for their work. TETO PRETO is a band and multi artistic project born in MAMBA NEGRA. Our music is reaching many parts of the world since 2018-19. And for us, to be back on tour in such a great selection of European music festivals feels like just the beginning of our lives. There are many other places and continents we hope to visit really soon for the first time, it is a huge privilege to have the opportunity to play for so many different people. We were born ready. Are u ready for TETO PRETO world domination plans, colonizers?
Since the beginning of time, music and dancing, are forms of expression, communication and storytelling. What is the message you want to share with public through your work?
I’m speaking from a very privileged point of view being a brazylian women who is recognized as ‘white’ in Latin America. TETO PRETO has always being a place to transform the violence to which we are exposed on daily basis in some kind of warrior joy. And, many times, the fight for freedom, for our lifes is violent. The dancefloor is the place where we manifest the energy that keeps us alive and proud. Somehow it reminds me the energy of the black origins of House music in North America and, obviously, the Baile Funk energy in Brazyl.