GENRE:
Scandalous. Shocking. Sexy. Electro-Punk. Pop-Funk. Outrageous. For Adults Only. Be Warned. It’s all about sex, glamour and dealers.
MORE ABOUT:
Montage, Daniel Peixoto’s own project, was mentioned by Brazilian’s best-seller music magazine Bizz as the band that has been missing for at least 18 years and elected as “the best show in Brazil” in 2005 and 2006 by the prestigious Folha de SP. He shared stages with Justice, Digitalism, Bjork, The Killers, Arctic Monkeys, Supergrass, Stereo Total, Neon Judgement, The Cardigans, Gang of Four and many others. Played in all the big festivals in Brazil and even had Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura) as a guest. It was the first Latin America project to have a virtual concert on Second Life. Montage was even praised by Justin Timberlake on his personal site. One of their infamous songs, “I trust my dealer”, was one of the most played videos ever on MTV Brazil. In October 2009, Daniel Peixoto did open for The Prodigy tour in Brazil.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY:
- “Mastigando Humanos” (2009)
PRESS REVIEWS:
“It’s last Saturday night at the appropriately named Inferno Club in Rua Augusta in Sao Paulo – the sleaziest street in the centre of the city, full of strip joints and street walkers. The support act Montage are the hottest new band to come out of Sao Paulo since CSS (as Cansei De Ser Sexy seem to prosaically call themselves these days)… In fact Montage originate from Fortaleza in the north-east of Brazil, a place full of modern forro bands that have the kitchy appeal of Eurovision (i.e they are quite amusing after several caipirinhas, horrible if you are sober). Montage have something of that tackiness, but are dark and nasty as well. Front man Daniel Peixoto is gorgeous and androgynous, and is the most charismatic showman you’ll see all year. Leco Juca is the percussionist and programmer who crafts their electro-punk soundworld. There are sex ands drugs-packed songs in Brazilian Portuguese and English: an ode to Benflogin, a painkiller Brazilian teenagers abuse to get off their heads; another called ‘I Trust My Dealer’; ‘Floor! Floor! Floor!’ which deals with ‘dancing like a hot whore on the floor’; another uses lyrics from Macumba – the Afro-Brazilian magical religion (interestingly the priestess past whom Peixoto ran his version of this sacred text loved their version); while their song ‘Presidente Americano’, which suggests it might be a good idea to kill the president, may not endear them when it comes to getting their visas for the States. Finally, ‘Money! Success! Fame! Glamour!’ sees Daniel half-naked; and that title – well, you haven’t seen anyone who wants it so much since when – David Bowie? Whether Daniel will be a 21st Century Brazilian Bowie or Bolan, or more like a Sigue Sigue Sputnik or a Jobriath, time will tell. My money is on the latter – but then as my pal Malcolm McLaren always says ‘Any fool can be a benign success, it takes guts to be a magnificent failure.” (Peter Culshaw, The Guardian)
LINKS:
www.myspace.com/danipeixoto
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