Zé Boiadé draw their language on French music, choro, samba and Northeastern Brazilian rhythms. Tiny bit Dadaist, they play with decomposing and deconstructing sounds and rhythms just as if music was a patchwork, thus making a unique kind of music and tearing down the barriers between erudite music and popular music.
The four skillful musicians can sing and play different instruments such as the seven-string guitar, the ten-string Northeastern viola, the trombone, the melodica, the cavaquinho, the mandolin, and a large range of percussions: pandeiro, congas, udu, triangle, kes kes…
By digging deep into traditions, Zé Boiadé freely tends towards a unique and characteristic creation, alternately danceable or contemplative, skipping the frevo and the caboclinho to suddenly plunge the audience into the heart of a song in French or Portuguese.
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