Brazilian drumming legend
Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti
has been experimenting and innovating for the last half a century. As one
third of cult Rio jazz-funk trio
Azymuth,
Mamão was at the root of the group’s ‘samba doido’ (crazy samba) philosophy,
which warped the traditional samba compass with jazz influences and space age
electronics. Even with his lesser known jovem guarda group The Youngsters,
Mamão was experimenting with tapes and delays to create unique,
ahead-of-its-time sounds, way back in the sixties. More recently Mamão
recorded an album with hip-hop royalty Madlib under the shared moniker
‘Jackson Conti’.