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TRU RUTS/SPEAKEASY RECORDS presents THE COMMON PAST debut album from QUILOMBOLAS

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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TRU RUTS/SPEAKEASY RECORDS presents 'THE COMMON PAST'

DEBUT ALBUM from Global Fusion Group QUILOMBOLAS

March
3rd marks the official release of, The Common Past,
the long awaited debut album of global fusion group,
Quilomobolas, and the 10th album release from
innovative underground record label, Tru Ruts/Speakeasy Records. Called
‘the auditory equivalent of a really tasty fusion
restaurant’, the multilingual band melds Afro-Brazilian,
Rock, World Beat, Afro-Funk and Hip Hop sounds. Appreciated for the new
sound they've brought to the Minneapolis scene, critics have called
them “...as intriguing a trio as you're apt to come by for
quite a while. These guys are serious to the bone with cold-blooded
chops. Their groove has a Band of Gypsys feel - sharp, elemental funk
with wizened, coat-pulling lyrics.” (Dwight Hobbes).

                                Members of the group share a diasporic
background that includes Brazilian, African American and Israeli
ancestry. Shelia Regan, of the Twin Cities Daily Planet, writes,
“True to the spirit of their name, the Minneapolis band
Quilombolas have a sense of defiance, and also a sense of freedom. The
band's style is passionate, satirical, and very entertaining. Blending
Brazilian rhythms, hip-hop, Israeli melodies, and funk, Quilombolas
create a unique sound with smart lyrics and a danceable
beat.” Lead singer, Eric Silva Berimba comments,
“Quilombolas' music is about blending, mixture, and harmony.
It is music that doesn't conveniently fit into one particular genre,
but fuses many styles. A musical feijoada or jambalaya.”


The album co-produced by Paul Harding, of Near and Far Records,
features performances by Maria Isa (Sota Rico) and
Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria (Palabristas). Reminiscent
of albums of the 60s and 70s, mixing musicality with a message, with a
new twist for a new time, the album doesn't pull any punches in its
lyrics. Berimba comments, “Lyrics for 'Quero a Paz' were
written in a cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2003 shortly before
attacks on Iraq began. An eerie premonition of things to come...There's
still plenty of work to do regarding liberty and equality for all but
making politically conscious multilingual music is the vision behind
the work.” Tru Ruts label exec, e.g. bailey, adds
“With it's melding of varied traditions and cultures, the
essence of Quilombolas and it's music is the striving for a more humane
world.”


                                Celebrating the global legacy of unity
and diversity, Quilombolas is ready to make its mark with this first
offering. It's sure to draw fans of established acts such as Ozomatli,
Michael Franti, Manu Chao, Kassin+2, Chico Science,
Nação Zumbi and others. Rob Van Alstyne writes,
“…the global pop mash up masters in local outfit
Quilombolas blend funky horns, traditional Latin American rhythms and
hip hop into a worldly mixture of sounds that's hard to neatly
categorize but easy to enjoy and certain to appeal to fans of similarly
ambitious groups like Ozomatli.” The album is available at
Electric Fetus, Cheapos, Fifth Element, CD Baby and directly from Tru
Ruts at http://www.myspace.com/truruts">myspace.com/truruts.


                                Rock inspired-Global music ensemble,
Quilombolas, has been steadily building an audience over the last
several years, and has been featured at the Twin Cities' Afrifest, the
Earthfusion Festival, on Fox 9 Morning News, in addition to
collaborating with noted Twin Cities artists including Maria Isa,
Truthmaze, e.g. bailey, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, and others. They
recently featured at the Mid American Music Festival, the Ripple Effect
festival and Vive Minnesota! El Festival, in addition to opening for PM
Dawn.


                                For more information, see http://www.myspace.com/truruts">myspace.com/truruts, http://www.myspace.com/quilombolas">myspace.com/quilombolas. Interviews, booking inquiries or promotional copies can be directed to Tru Ruts at info@truruts.com or 612-288-9491.

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Respect to Matt for the opportunity.
Gracias.

The auditory equivalent of a really tasty fusion restaurant, the global pop mash up masters in local outfit Quilombolas blend
funky horns, traditional Latin American rhythms and hip hop into a
worldly mixture of sounds that’s hard to neatly categorize but easy to
enjoy and certain to appeal to fans of similarly ambitious groups like
Ozomatli. Their CD release show at the 7th St. Entry tonight for The Common Past is a can’t miss for homegrown world music heads. (9 p.m., $6, 18+)

-Rob van Alstyne

http://twincities.metromix.com/music/article/twin-cities-roll-call/905681/content

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The past year has been a great year of growth and development for the label, and we want to thank all of you for your support of our endeavors––artists, fans and press alike. These endeavors would not be possible without your continued support. It is helping us become one of the fastest growing and respected labels in the Midwest. 2009 is a year of change, and Tru Ruts will continue to grow and change with it. We have a number of new releases coming up in the winter and spring, from QUILOMBOLAS, E.G. BAILEY and SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE. A tour is currently in the works. Remixes of LIGHTNING + THUNDER. The GUANTE + BIG CATS! collaboration. Plus more international collaborations with artists in the UK, Germany, Romania and beyond. Also look for new videos and concert dvds. And much much more. It promises to be an exciting year with the Ruts Crew. It has already kicked off to a great start with several nominations for best of the year wrap ups, and multi-category nominations for the TWIN CITIES HIP HOP AWARDS. Also our newsletters and press releases will now be facilitated primarily through FanBridge, so we can better manage our mailing lists. If you wish to be removed, simply go to the 'Unsubscribe' link below, and you will be removed immediately. We apologize in advance for any duplicates. Below are some highlights from the past year. Currently on deck: the QUILOMBOLAS CD RELEASE PARTY (Jan. 30th at 7th Street Entry), GUANTE at El Cafe Open Mic (Jan. 31st at El Cafe Burrito in St. Paul), SEE MORE at the FREAKIN FRIDAY FINAL BLOWOUT (Feb. 20th at the Blue Nile) and plus the EL GUANTE CMJ SPOTLIGHT ("...El Guante could very well follow Atmosphere and P.O.S. in the long-line of outstanding rappers to break out from the Midwest." - CMJ) and more. TRU RUTS You are connected with Tru Ruts Endeavors, an artistic enterprise based in the Twin Cities, whose work expands regionally, nationally and internationally. A multi-disciplinary organization, it works in spoken word, hip hop, theatre, film, radio, and others. It comprises of Speakeasy Records, tru life films, Freestyle Theatre, Mbari Gallery, Twelve Horizons Press + others. It works with multi-disciplinary artists e.g. bailey, Shá Cage, Truthmaze, El Guante, See More Perspective, Quilombolas, along with numerous artists in the US + abroad. If you would like to work with, or book, any of the artists, or for interviews, please contact us at info@truruts.com or booking.truruts@gmail.com. Thank you for your support. - Tru Ruts Endeavors TRU RUTS ENDEAVORS | BRINGING INNOVATIVE ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS TO FRUITION

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RELEASES

• America (Single) - e.g. bailey

• Quero A Paz (Single) - Quilombolas

• Conscious is Not Enough - El Guante

• El Guante's Haunted Studio Apartment - El Guante

• Concrete Rose b/w Tres Preguntas (Single) - Buss One • Kamillion • Maria Isa

(from Lighting + Thunder Volume One)

• Return to El Guante's Haunted Studio Apartment: Remixed

and Reimagined by See More Perspective - El Guante + See More Perspective

• Highstylekyle + Tru Ruts present Lightning + Thunder (Volume One) - Various Artists

(Minnesota's first reggaeton compilation featuring over 20 Twin Cities artists)





FESTIVALS

• El Guante + See More Perspective featured at Homegrown Hip Hop Festival

• Truthmaze, Shá Cage, El Guante, See More Perspective + Quilombolas featured at Ripple Effect Festival

• Quilombolas featured at Mid American Music Festival

• El Guante featured at Forward Fest

• Shá Cage + El Guante featured at Voices Merging Conference

• Truthmaze, El Guante + See More Perspective featured at Substance's Justice Jam

• Quilombolas featured at Vive Minnesota! Festival

• Truthmaze + See More Perspective featured at Sixth Annual Spoutstock Festival

• Truthmaze, Shá Cage, e.g. bailey, El Guante + See More Perspective featured at Green Jobs Rally

• e.g. bailey featured at Afrifest

• El Guante featured at Lyrical Action Camp

• El Guante + See More Perspective featured at People's Networking Convention

• Shá Cage, e.g. bailey + El Guante featured at Veterans For Change Conference

• Shá Cage featured at 2008 National Conference for Media Reform

• e.g. bailey + Shá Cage featured at MNSWA's In Da Tradition Spoken Word Institute at University of MN





SHOWS + PROJECTS

• Trocaderos + Tru Ruts present KRS ONE (Sold Out) • PM DAWN • ALKAHOLIKS

• Tru Ruts presents URBAN REVIVAL Series at FREAKIN FRIDAYS w/ Rose Up Productions

• Tru Ruts presents QUILOMBO WEDNESDAYS at the Blue Nile

• Sha Cage opens for Cornel West

• El Guante, See More Perspective + Quilombolas open for Peace Jam's Desmond Tutu event

• Shá Cage featured at Hip Hop for Homeless

• e.g. bailey featured at Iowa State University

• Tru Ruts presents EL GUANTE'S HAUNTED VAN TOUR

• El Guante + See More Perspective featured at University of Wisconsin - Steven's Point

• e.g. bailey + Shá Cage facilitate spoken word + theatre workshop

for Marc Bamuthi's 'the break/s' residency at the Walker Art Center





AWARDS + ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• El Guante nominated for Independent Music Awards

- Hip Hop Album of the Year + Hip Hop Song of the Year

• Spoken word commercial featuring e.g. bailey + Shá Cage

inducted into the Art + Technique of the American Commercial

• El Guante wins Minneapolis Slam Champion

• Shá Cage nominated as feature Poet of the Week at Twin Poetry (UK) site

• El Guante selected as one of City Pages' Artist of the Year

• Quilombolas opens for Kassin+2

• El Guante's Conscious is not Enough selected as #7 for Vita.mn's Best Local CD of 2008

• Truthmaze, El Guante, Sha Cage + Quilombolas

featured on Zero Element Compilation (presented by Peace Jam) in honor of Desmond Tutu

• El Guante interviewed for Vibe Magazine's Vibe.com

• e.g. bailey + Shá Cage selected for Givens Foundation's

First Annual Black Writers Retreat with Amiri Baraka

• El Guante competes in National Poetry Slam as part of St. Paul's Slam Team,

which finished 13th in the nation

• Truthmaze wins Cover Song contest at Sixth Annual Spoutstock Festival

• Shá Cage featured in Midnight Chronicles feature film

• e.g. bailey + Shá Cage featured in Art is Patriotic radio documentary by Marya Morstad

• Truthmaze nominated for Twin Cities Hip Hop Awards - Best Knowledge Spitta (2008)

• Buss One + Child of the Black Madonna nominated for Twin Cities Hip Hop Awards - Best Band (2008)













TRU RUTS presents QUILOMBOLAS' THE COMMON PAST

CD RELEASE PARTY

January 30th - 7th Street Entry (First Avenue) - 9:00pm - 18+ - $6

701 First Avenue North, Minneapolis MN



A cross cultural (Afro-Brazilian, Afro-American, Sota-Rican) musical
celebration honoring Dr. King's Dream, Barack Obama's vision and the
Breadth of the Diaspora. Featuring Maria Isa, Skaliticians, Batucada do Norte, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, El Guante, SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE and DJ Paul Harding.

www.first-avenue.com • myspace.com/truruts

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Brazil's Kassin + 2 could more properly be called the Plus 2 Trio, which consists of Alexandre Kassin, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, singer, and one of the hottest producers in Brazil; drummer/vocalist Domenico Lancellotti; and Moreno Veloso, guitarist, singer, and son of Brazilian music icon Caetano Veloso. The band's name shifts according to who takes the lead on its latest project, which currently is Futurismo (Luaka Bop), the third installment of a rambunctious trilogy that essentially carries the principles of tropicalismo, the revolutionary fusion of Brazilian roots and international influences co-founded by the elder Veloso, far into the 21st century. That means a strong core of bossa nova, samba, and more esoteric Brazilian elements mashed together in wide-ranging permutations with pop and dance beats from multiple continents, rock from garage as well as art studio, echoes of the Caribbean as well as noire westerns, all nudged, prodded, and shocked with sampling, loops, and other electronica flourishes. By turns lyrical and experimental, the trio can induce rock 'n' roll mayhem as well as dance-floor workouts. The local quartet Quilombolas also draws inspiration from diverse sources, including samba, funk, rock, and hip hop, with a particular nod to the late Chico Science's Pernambucan mangue beat.

http://www.culturebully.com/eric-silva-brenneman-of-quilombolas-on-music-and-arts-education

How did you get into making music, and how did arts education (or lack thereof) affect you and your music?

My parents would most likely respond that I've been performing in one way or the other since I was a very young child. As a toddler I would always ask for certain records while I was bouncing around on a little horse. The music was my babysitter. I was also fortunate to grow up in a very musical family on both sides. From my paternal grandmother who has been teaching piano for seventy some odd years (and continues to do so…), to my aunt who got me started around age four, to my uncles in South America who combine multiple bottles of liquor and multiple instruments and then jam all night at the barbecue (and continue to do so…).

As I mentioned, I started on piano with my Aunt Barb, but after a few years, I discovered the cello and from there, I couldn't put it down. As time passed, I learned the trumpet, which later turned into the euphonium (baritone). I kind of pushed myself to run around the orchestra and try to learn the basics of everything. This payed off as I was elected drum major of my high school marching band my last two years. In my early teens, music in Nebraska took on a very different meaning when I discovered Nebraska's greatest cultural export right as they were leaving to make it big in California: 311. In addition, for a teen, The Edge was just a little cooler than NPR Classical Radio. Between 311 and similar bands, to the dismay of my private cello teacher, it pushed me and other very talented teens to start rocking. Drums and guitars were all over, nobody played bass guitar. I figured with my cello background I'd go for it, and I found my place (though I love playing drums and guitar too!).

I had dabbled in composition and songwriting as a kid, but I really started to put it together as a teen. I started writing music for cello and for the rock bands I was playing in. Mind you, most of it wasn't that good, but it was a good foundation. I do remember this cello solo my aunt and I wrote as tribute to the sudden death of a beloved teacher of mine. In fact, she taught my aunt and dad too, so it was pretty special to put that together for her memory. From there, I just kept building the house.

Arts education was absolutely fundamental in my development as a professional musician. There is no way I would be where I'm at today without the musical knowledge I gained from the amazing and very patient teachers I was blessed with from elementary to high school. I am a product of both public school music education and private lessons that focused on the Suzuki method. While private lessons were intense and enabled me at one point to travel around the Mid-West competing and have some great accomplishments, the public school music teachers were the ones that taught me how to play the instruments, would stay after school to answer my questions, and most importantly, taught me how to play in ensembles and work with many different people on many different instruments. In a sea of very competitive, driven, and many times socially-awkward music kids, I was pretty easy going. Maybe too easy going; I think it sometimes annoyed my private cello teacher, Dr. Johnson (RIP). He certainly taught me a lot, but being cool among other musicians was not something I learned from him. That came from learning to balance the ego and learning to be a team player through Mr. Jank's orchestra, Mr. Crowl, Mr. Roebke, and Mr. Duensing's bands, and Mr. DeWalls' choir. It's kind of funny, when you think about what kills bands, it's not usually a question of talent. From garage bands to double platinum sell-out-the-Metrodome-bands, it's usually the ego battles. I've been pretty sensitive to this and have wondered where it came from. I must admit, in hindsight, it makes sense now.

To tie it all together, I would say that public music education is more important than any other "required" subject that politicians and administrators claim matter or need for their test scores. It's so much deeper than learning how to play an instrument and performing for your grandparents every couple of months. You learn socialization skills, you learn how to "harmonize" (pun intended!), and that is something you can carry and apply to anything else as life moves on, long after that trumpet gets filled with cobwebs. Where the hell is my trumpet anyway? Nebraska? I've got to get back at that bad boy!

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