Slovakian bowed guitars, Afro-Brazilian surf-rock & More Set For SXSW 2010

SXSW is just around the corner, and as an increasingly worldly event, we've got a few artists appearing in showcases this year! Check out Longital, SambaDa, and Real Vocal String Quartet below and let me know if you'd be interested in doing any coverage for their performances at this year's SXSW.

Longital
03/18/2010, Thu
Austin, TX
South by Southwest Festival @ Momo's
618 West 6th St.
Tix: $10,
Marco Werman's showcase "All Music is World Music".
Showcase is open to the public.
Tix: Free with a SXSW badge or wristband!

03/20/2010, Sat
Austin, TX
South by Southwest Festival @ Mi Casa
Tix: $10,
Showcase is open to the public.
Tix: Free with a SXSW badge or wristband!

They flip coins, heed dreams of tuba-wielding Herbie Hancocks, put bows to vintage guitars, grab onto sounds both everyday and distinctly exotic. They sound like Camille and Spoon smoking around a Slavic midsummer bonfire, like Animal Collective with a European pedigree. They flit between the old and the new, always traveling light (stuffing clothes into guitar cases, in their unique brand of D.I.Y. style) and always returning to a bluff above the Danube River that inspired their name and a musical breakthrough.

SambaDa
03/20/2010, Sat
Austin, TX
South By Southwest Festival @ Copa Club
217 Congress Avenue

There's a beach where one sunny afternoon you may witness an offering to an Afro-Brazilian Orixa spirit of the ocean, the next day watch master capoeristas practicing Brazil's martial art dance form, and still another day join a gathering of thousands of surfers-cum-dancers rocking out to hybrid musical sounds informed by bloco afro (Afro-Brazilian percussion music), samba-reggae, surf-rock, and California funk. No, these are not the shores of Bahia, Brazil. This is Santa Cruz, California, home of the surf-and-skate, capoeira-kicking, scene-busting phenomenon known as SambaDa.

Real Vocal String Quartet
03/20/2010, Sat
Austin, TX
South by Southwest Festival @ Club One 15
115 San Jacinto St. (Corner of E. 1st St.)

They bang on their violins, stomp their feet, and allow African trance music to influence their take on old timey standards. It's not their sanity that's missing; what RVSQ has lost is the ability to abide the constraints of either the old school classical world, where musicians must frequently forsake their creativity for the overall sound of the orchestra, or the often unapproachable reaches of the contemporary classical world.

Some details are yet to be confirmed, but don't worry, we'll keep you posted!

http://www.sxsw.com/