Morning, here's a track from the Tetine Vs Sophie Calle's album "Samba de Monalisa", released in 2002, our second record produced in London. It will complete 20 years now in January 2022. I've been listening to it again, rediscovering it ... and relearning how to play some of its songs. This is "Amada Amante" - one of the closing tracks and one my favourite, (trk.11). Looking back, it is quite a nice record, and one of the reasons that we ended up staying in this country - we performed it many times in the UK and around Europe, and later in 2009 at Sophie Calle's exhibition 'Take Care of Yourself' in São Paulo at Sesc Pompéia. It was also once "electronica album of the month" at the deceased and saudosa Tower Records of Picaddily Circus - which, for us, was a big treat, and surprise at the time... you can imagine how it felt (if you know what I mean, and all the dillemas/questions related to shelving CDs in the 'right shelves') when me and Eli entered the shop and saw our CD spread around the electronica section, and also available in one of those listening posts that they used to have. Dream! Below is some of the praise it got at the time. Dig it ...also in all platforms through Slum Dunk Music.
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"L’apport musical du duo Tetine donne aux quelques extraits narratifs ou de dialogues une force et une sentimentalié étonnantes. D’une très belle justesse. D’une just finnesse. L’albu prend vraiment une dimension de document sonore où les instantes clés du film son’t saisis, montrés puis étendus en des plages musicales que décortiquent la scène et la font apparaître a nu…’. Clarknova Magazine, France, June 2002
"El cine negro se refleja en los ambientes oscuros de 'Welcome To Las Vegas' y el romántico conecta con 'Music For Mechanics' debido sus violines y conversaciones. 'Sandalia Quebrada' vuelve a esa mezcla electrosamba y ambientes sintéticos aderezados por voces, esta vez sin un diálogo explícito. Más preciosista e actual es 'Hotel Madrid', tema que conecta con artificieros de la electronica como Múm'... Estamos pues ante un disco para los amantes de la música electrónica con aporte cinematográfico e experimental (aunque sin ecxesivos riesgo). Lo cual no es poco." Satelite Pop, Madrid, July, 2002
"Tetine, Brazilian artists Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado have created a dispassionate American travelogue of great tenderness and reserve. As male and female voices offer intimate insights into the directionless, inertial flow of their relationship, a sharply defined soundtrack follows them on a road trip from New York to Vegas…The televangelist rant, cool French tone and Hip Hop lope of the opening suggest an emotionally detached take on Jean Luc Godard’s classic debut Au Bout De Souffle but the mute longing of ‘Amada Amante’ and ‘I Met Him in The Bar’ go way beyond even that’. Ken Hollings, The Wire. June 2002
"Le travail de Tetine et Sophie Calle est à rapprocher de celui de Genesis P.Orridge dans so projet Splinter Test (Welcome to Las Vegas oú l’on perçoit la voix surnaturelle de Roy Orbison) ou bien encore des constructions méditatives de Stephen Jones (Hotel Madrid). Sur le plan de la narration, le glissement du privé au public, de l’intime à l’ouvre, cher à Sophie Calle, démontre avec brio qu’il existe des alternatives dignes aux cogitations loft-storyennes: le journal intime électronique…. La musique atosphérique et lointaine de Tetine apport un nouvel eclairage, inedit et enchanteur, aux autofictions de Sophie Calle'.4/5 Lionel Delamonte, Chronic’art, France, June 2002
"Um pouco como a própria Sophie Calle, o Tetine quer refletir sobre dois eixos. As conexões possíveis entre a 'alta cultura' e os mass media e entre o público e o privado (..) Samba de Monalisa recupera de certa forma o viés experimentalista e falado de Alexander's Grave, o álbum de estreia de 1996. Nesse, o 'gatilho' não era o cinema mas o teatro e literatura com fragmentos de textos de Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Strindberg Musset e outros". Alex Antunes, Revista Bravo, Brazil, Set, 2002
‘Fave tracks are 'No Sex Last Nigh' and 'Amada Amante'. Even though it is really quite complex and multilayered, repeated listening is rather rewarding. It is actually quite an accessible album, given the right exposure it could be a cult crossover, attains cult status and so much publicity that it crosses over into mainstream popularity’. Clive Craske, Jazzical Gaz, April 2002
‘…atmospheric mysterious film dialogue drifting darkly across some strangely scratched electronic riffs. Why you ask? Because the São Paulo based duo Tetine have a thing about the cult French artist called Sophie Calle'. Robert Sandall, Mixing it, BBC Radio 3, April 2002"
Recommended tune: 'No Sex Last Night' - Tetine vs Sophie Calle. BBC Radio 1, June 2002
Recommended electronica album of the month. Tower Records, May 2002.
'Impresario of indulgence Ian White and Brazilian performance duo Tetine deliver a seriously whacked out evening of mixed media mayhem that covers all the bases and barely stops for breath. Tetine themselves are launching their new dirty beats/ found voices cd made in collaboration with following artist Sophie Calle; there's image work from them, videos by Queen of Endurance Art Marina Abramovic and the marvelous Chicks on Speed; and more much more is promissed. From hybrid to hola!, high culture to 'Here She is Again', why not shake your booty at WAG this Friday?' GE, Time Out London, June 2002
THE ETHER - Prelude No. 1 by Tetine & Yoko Afi - a film-performance conceived for the Pink Umbrellas Art Residency / Aug 2020
TETINE & YOKO AFI
THE ETHER – Prelude No.1
THE ETHER is a reflective sonic-aphasic (dis)rhythmic meditation in the form of a prelude (for cello, dance, waste, air, wind, body and breathing). The piece comprises of 7 distinct yet complementary slow movements that explore the atmospherics and metaphysics of untamed syntaxes of time, space, voice, rhythm and breathing. The prelude speaks of stillness, becomings, luminosities, value, respiration, and body fluids, as it investigates the ghostly presences/absences manifested in the landscape through sound, dance, gesture and silence - whilst responding to the secret ontologies of inanimate objects, architectures, the politics of dreams as well as, the echoes and ethics of the modes of operating things. Conceived as an ode to the poetics of slowness, suspension, divinity, unfitness and wait, The Ether echoes the uncapturable, and echoes Tetine's recurrent and unconditional love for Beckett’s philosophical theatrics of existence, un-communicability and non-performance.
Bruno Verner, August 2020
The Ether – Prelude No. 1 (in 7 movements)
1. Prologue
2. Aphasia, waste and pine
3. The Air is The Same
4. Disritimia (Un) clock
5. My boots don’t fit, my feet hurt
6. San Sebastian Doll
7. They Call Us for An Encore
Original music: Yoko Afi and Tetine
Cello, trumpet, voice: Yoko Afi
Piano, voice, dance: Bruno Verner
Electronics, sampling, editing and fx: Eliete Mejorado
TETINE are ELIETE MEJORADO and BRUNO VERNER.
BRUNO VERNER is a Brazilian, London-based composer, artist and poet. With ELIETE MEJORADO, he formed TETINE - a hybrid tropical-mutant-punk-funk organism born in São Paulo in 1995. Since then both artists have created a multitude of performance, sound and art-related works from the spoken word to electronica, including ritualistic performances, installations, radio, film & video and independent curatorial projects.
http://www.tetine.net/
YOKO AFI is a young cellist and composer based in London. She has recently been awarded the Joan Scrutton’s Awards for Young Musicians in the UK to study at the prestigious Guildhall Junior School of Music and Drama. Yoko has written and performed the original music for The Ether - Prelude No.1.
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE ARTISTIC OCCUPATION
Artistic occupation that will show every Monday, at 5 pm GTM-3, the experience of artists from different areas and different places, which they gather to create from a distance and immerse themselves in an experience of language displaced from each artist's "common place", in addition to thinking the Internet itself as a creative and amplified possibility.
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O ÉTER - Preludio No.1
O ÉTER é uma meditação sônica-afásica reflexiva (des) rítmica na forma de um prelúdio (para violoncelo, dança, resíduos, ar, vento, corpo e respiração). A peça é composta por 7 movimentos lentos, distintos, mas complementares, que exploram a atmosfera e a metafísica de sintaxes indomadas de tempo, espaço, voz, ritmo e respiração. O prelúdio fala de quietude, devires, luminosidades, valor, respiração e fluídos corporais, pois investiga as presenças / ausências fantasmagóricas que se manifestam na paisagem através da som, dança, gesto e silêncio - enquanto responde às ontologias secretas de objetos inanimados, arquiteturas, a política dos sonhos, bem como os ecos e a ética dos modus operandis das coisas.
Concebido como uma ode à poética da lentidão, suspensão, divindade, incapacidade e espera, O Éter ecoa o incapturável e ecoa o amor recorrente e incondicional de Tetine pelo teatro filosófico existencial de Beckett, incomunicabilidade e não performance.
TETINE é ELIETE MEJORADO e BRUNO VERNER.
BRUNO VERNER é um compositor, artista e poeta brasileiro radicado em Londres. Com ELIETE MEJORADO, formou o TETINE - um organismo híbrido tropical-mutante-punk-funk nascido em São Paulo em 1995. Desde então, os dois artistas criaram uma infinidade de trabalhos performáticos, sonoros e artísticos, da palavra falada à eletrônica, incluindo performances ritualísticas, instalações, rádio, filme e vídeo e projetos curatoriais independentes.
YOKO AFI é uma jovem violoncelista e compositora radicada em Londres. Recentemente, ela recebeu o Prêmio Joan Scrutton para Jovens Músicos no Reino Unido para estudar na prestigiosa Guildhall Junior School of Music and Drama. Yoko escreveu e executou a música original para O Éter - Prelúdio No.1.
TETINE (BRUNO VERNER, ELIETE MEJORADO) + ANDERSON BORBA
Key 001 – Radioactivity is in the air for you and me
The anti-sacred mutant tropical punk-funk aesthetics of Tetine (Bruno Verner + Eliete Mejorado) as hairy hydras who do not spell ‘A. R. T.’ - for poetic reasons many will understand one day - and London-based Brazilian (Santista) artist, sculptor Anderson Borba, bring you what (they)-(we) have been calling SHAFT ABRE CAMINHO PALO SANTO, an experiment, a no-show shout, a moment, a shellshock in the form of an ancestral cosmic futuristic weekender, or better, an anti-pompous sculptural-textual-sonic exhibit/elixir taking place at SET DALSTON on 5th of July from 6 pm – 9pm.
SHAFT ABRE CAMINHO PALO SANTO is a re-inhabitation, re-corporification; a transitory reengineering of temporal syntactic and physical-sensorial utopian accumulations, undisciplined feelings and haunting memories, countering straight time and the current territories of neoliberal psychism, animated by the digital & analogic logics of semantico-mathematical ABCs of structures and numbers. The shout is still in process, the moment in constant movement at each hour, minute, second; tasted, sucked and then cannibalized from massive portions of distinct (and vivid) temporalities. The no-show being constantly & unregretfully practiced in the matrix, or else, uninterruptedly originated (there’s no beginnings or ends) as it manifests itself through magick, through sound (and then vision), through film, touch, sex, gozo, odour in mutant machines of lust.
From our first pulsations, 6 months ago, when the hydras collectively anticipated the expectations of such a “not-yet” cut [happening] in space and time, intensely relational with other pasts and worlds. Tarot or I Ching?
É nauseante - no sentido capiau-neoliberal-nouveau-rich da coisa - ver, ler ou ouvir os 'coronéis culturais' de sempre do Brasil de hoje e de ontem, atachando valor semântico ‘emocional-funcional' ao calendário corporativo de eventos tradicionais de arte e musica (nacionais ou internacionais) nos seus 'perfis' em redes sociais. A grande maioria mantém profiles "fechados" quase sempre investidos na cadência do sonho global - atualizando cliches narrativos globais em status marketeiros chulés (em tom fake "a vontade") de ordem auto-promocional para 'amigos' em busca de aprovação e/ou aceitação. Doninhas e playboys brasileiros atuantes no mercado (ar-tis-ti-co na-ci-o-nal / colonial) de aderência neoliberalista só reforçam o poder dos cliches do calendário cognitivo capitalista absolutista mundial. Reforçam sempre e incontestavelmente. ______Alguém indo pra Veneza essa semana? ______Miami de 6 a 12?. ______London de 14-17?
Hello! This coming Tuesday (July 1st) Tetine are playing a set at George & Dragon' s brand new night Moody Brooding Hopeless Boys - a male vocal night featuring songs sung by men who are moody, broody and hopeless
UNHEARD & SPOKEN episode 3 Tetine dedicates an hour to text-based / spoken word pieces on Slum Dunk from post punk to industrial, atonal MPB, canto falado, sound poetry, rap, electronica & more - feat. music, talk, readings and other stories by Damiao Experiença, Anne Waldman, Deux, Tetine, Karine Alexandrino, Anne Clark,Miranda July, No Porn and more. Episode 3 - tonight 10 :30 pm live on Resonance Fm 104.4.
This is the second episode of UNHEARD & SPOKEN - Tetine's new series dedicated to text-based / spoken word pieces. Expect a set of half spoken/half-sung numbers in various guises - from post punk to industrial, atonal MPB, canto falado, sound poetry, rap, electronica & more - feat. music by Black Future, Arrigo Barnabe, No Bra, Ricardo Domeneck & Markus Nikolaus, Johanna Went, Marc Almond, Tetine, Akt amongst others. UNHEARD & SPOKEN is aired live on Resonance Fm 104.4 in London every We 10:30 pm Listen to Ep 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/resonance-fm/unknown-slum-dunk-13th
Tonight - Tetine dedicates an hour to text-based / spoken word pieces on our Slum Dunk radio show. This show marks the beginning of our new episodes named UNHEARD & SPOKEN. Expect a set of half spoken/half-sung numbers in various guises - from post punk to atonal MPB, canto falado, sound poetry, rap, electronica & more. Episode 1 - today 10 :30 pm live on Resonance Fm 104.4.
We're happy to announce Slum Dunk radio show is back for a new season!
Hosted by Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado of Brazilian duo Tetine, the Slum Dunk show is back for a new season on Resonance Fm after a four-year hiatus - starting from Sep 11th on Wednesdays from 10:30 to 1130 pm.
Expect all sorts of unexpected music from the hills and beyond with an emphasis on obscure artists from the south hemisphere - covering from post punk, electronica, experimental, spoken word to baile funk disco, punk funk, noise, abstract, mpb etc etc..
Tetine's Slum Dunk was a pioneering radio show broadcasted on Resonance Fm from 2002- 2008 which brought Funk Carioca and other Brazilian obscurities to Europe's radar - including interviews, live sets.
First programme is dedicated to late Sebastiao Rodrigues Maia - Brazilian polemical soul man/disco funk iconoclast aka Tim Maia.
Tetine will be playing and commenting on his 70's 'rejected' songs from Tim Maia Racional - vol 1 & 2 inspired by the book Universe in Disenchantment & religious cult Racional Culture.
Tetine's Slum Dunk radio show Every Wed - 10:30 to 11:30 pm Resonance Fm 104.4 Listen online: www.resonance.com
RECORD OF THE DAY PRESENTS TETINE - TUE 25TH MAY 2010 - 8PM
'The Tetine album has been one of our sleeper faves of the year so far, a real grower that fuses punk funk basslines, oddball freaky vocal lines and a love of pure disco goodness. We play it constantly in the shop and people always ask what it's all about - it's got that infectious groove that sounds particularly good on a big system! Come check these Brazilian funksters out in late May!' http://www.puregroove.co.uk/in-store.aspx
Tetine will be playing songs from the albums 'From A Forest Near You' (Slum Dunk Music) released earlier this year & 'Let Your X's Be Y's' (Soul Jazz Records)
