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OK before I rip into Bonde do Role's concert in Miami last Thursday night, I just want to say how much I really dig their deft fusions of funk carioca, heavy metal, and electro-dance music. But since this is my blog, I'm gonna tell it like it is, or at least like it is in my mind. It might have been that my expectations were unrealistically high. It happens sometimes. Bonde do Role's show in Miami was one of those times and definitely not what I had imagined it would be. En route to Coachella, the baile funkeros hit downtown's Studio A with new members Ana Bernardino and Laura Taylor in tow. The two were hand-picked by DJ Gorky and Pedro D'eyrot via MTV Brasil when MC Marina Vello ditched the band late last year. Yin - Yang personified, Ana was the prison guard holding down the fort, I mean stage, with her ferocious mic in throat screaming and braid-lashing head-whips, while Laura mostly stuck to her role as bubbly bunny cheerleader, prancing around the peripheries of Ana's sometimes scary and frankly annoying volcanic eruptions. When Laura did take the lead it was a welcome respite from boot camp. Kudos to Gorky for doing what he does best, which is pounding out the bass and sampling crunching thrash guitar and 80s electro-pop. Pedro D'eyrot was memorable for oscillating between his snooty Brit accent and Argentine Spanish when interacting with the audience. Not once did he address Miami's rare hipster breed in Portuguese. Testament to the fact that unfiltered baile funk is still only found in Rio's favelas.
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