we are back once again with mandinga @ thames festival, inspired by a well managed night carnival to try out more ambitious repertoire. adrian evans, festival boss, doesn’t really like samba, which is part of the reason that we developed the funk, salsa, jamaican reggae etc to be played by our brazilian drums. we are joined by australian timba supremos son veneno, with whom we were to make our first cd the following year (2nd cd actually, but library music is not something out there for general sale). what was in the show? salsa, funk, samba, reggae – a little variety show on the road. mandinga’s milk float is back in action after the breakdown of sadler’s weels carnival, but we are still dressed as dick whittingtons. there are pics and vid clips here.
rotc with mandinga arts @ thames festival 2006