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For fans of Opeth, modern Swans, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Saltland, Tina Guo

“It’s uncommon to hear a classical instrument like the cello in heavy music that isn’t Melodic or Symphonic Metal. My intent is to explore creative ways of using my instrument in heavier contexts. Twenty-six years ago, Roots Bloody Roots pleaded for the preservation of Brazilian cultural diversity. Today, Kapitur’s distinctive revisit of the song revolves around the historical alienation of common people regarded as different, the Bloody Roots of us outsiders. It grips on the struggle of finding oneself estranged from one’s original and adoptive cultures, to the ongoing murder and colonization suffered by many people in a land that was theirs for centuries; from immigrant, racial, religious intolerance to the global, modern alien anxiety suffered by African descendants and their relationship to an inaccessible homeland. Bloody Roots is about you, or someone you know and care for.” – Bruna Wanderley

Single Title: Bloody Roots (Sepultura Cover)
Release Date: March 11, 2022
Label: Self-Release
Distribution: Distrokid

Facebook.com/kapiturband – Instagram.com/kapiturband – Kapitur.bandcamp.com

Spotify pre-save: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kapitur/bloody-roots

BAND STORY ANGLES / FUN FACTS:

1. Someone I know sent a private unpublished link of the music video to Sepultura and they really loved the work! Derrick Green himself contacted me to say it’s very creative, that it sounds incredible and that he looks forward to meeting me in person! So Kapitur is personally invited to meet them at their Montreal show on March 17th. One can only guess how stoked we are.

2. Shooting the music video for Bloody Roots was one of the most demanding and fun experiences we had so far. It was a very cold Fall day, we set up a tent on the sandpits and unexpectedly spent 13 hours outdoors on the first day. As soon as we got there, one of the cars got stuck in the mud, and only after greatly shoving, did a guy on a tractor appear to tow the car in a few seconds. The photographer was buried naked in the sand at 5°C – he did say he liked it. For the entire time, I was cold from shooting in a thin dress and being barefoot on the sand. At night, we had to beware of the coyote sounds coming our way – it was so reassuring to have combustible material available, just in case. Finally, all the team left the site at 3 a.m., with our gear frosted by the dew and fake blood stains on our clothes and shoes. That whole night felt really special though. Will do it again next year, once we get rid of all the sand stuck in our stuff.

3. There’s a faint possibility of having one of the upcoming songs performed by a classical choir in a few months. Fingers crossed!

Artist and multi-instrumentalist Bruna Wanderley Gonçalves draws from a young life in Brazil, living in an environment of violence, fear, and contrasting beauty. Growing up in a conservative Evangelical milieu has led her to tease her family’s most beloved boundaries and, since her solo arrival to infamously libertine Montreal in 2015, she has actively performed and recorded as a cellist in a wide array of contexts. Under her most recent metal-influenced group Kapitur – the name derived from the intriguing female character Capitu in a realist novel by Machado de Assis – she composes, sings, performs guttural vocals while also playing the cello. Making music and collaborating with artists within the local scene has consequently sparked her curiosity to explore new combinations of musical influences and sounds. Her music can be heavy, ethereal, warm, sorrowful, and atmospheric like a slow apocalypse. It’s filled with soundscapes, hammering repetitions, layering, and she creates contrasting moods with bleak cacophony followed by heavenly melodies. For her, music is a way to explore the underlying chaotic state of our past experiences as well as a fight against norms and finitude, in the search for what is eternal.

Single Band Line Up:
Bruna Wanderley – Vocals, cello, additional textures
Sam Neuman – Drums
Bruno Coe – Bass
Zach Dean – Guitars

Live Band Line Up:
Bruna Wanderley – Vocals, cello
Sam Neumann – Drums
Andres Arango – Guitars
Bass TBA
Extras TBA

Discography:
2022 – Bloody Roots (single cover Sepultura)
2020 – Decay (demo)

Single Title: Bloody Roots (Sepultura Cover)
Release Date: March 11, 2022
Label: Self-Release
Distribution: Distrokid

Single:
Bloody Roots (3:17)

Single Recording Credits:
• All songs performed by: Bruna Wanderley, Samn Neuman, Zach Dean, Bruno Coe
• All songs written by: Sepultura
• Produced by: Bruna Wanderley
• Mixed by: Jonathan Leduc
• Mastered by: Jonathan Leduc
• Album Artwork by: Ivan Arturo Photography / Bruna Wanderley
• Member of SOCAN
• Canadian Content (MAPL)

Single Band Line Up:
Bruna Wanderley – Vocals, cello, additional textures
Sam Neuman – Drums
Bruno Coe – Bass
Zach Dean – Guitars

NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – March 11, 2022

KAPITUR Pays Cultural Homage w/ Cello Cover Video of Sepultura’s “Roots Bloody Roots”

One of the most recognizable songs by Brazil’s Sepultura is 1996’s Roots Bloody Roots. A cultural statement on the social trife between the different groups present in the country spoke to classically-trained native Bruna Wanderley who picked up her cello to create a new rendition of the classic song. She speaks to the meaning behind the track:

“Twenty-six years ago, Roots Bloody Roots pleaded for the preservation of Brazilian cultural diversity. Today, Kapitur’s distinctive revisit of the song revolves around the historical alienation of common people regarded as different, the bloody roots of us outsiders. It grips on the struggle of finding oneself estranged from one’s original and adoptive cultures, to the ongoing murder and colonization suffered by many in a land that was theirs for centuries; from immigrant, racial, religious intolerance to the global, modern alien anxiety suffered by African descendants and their relationship to an inaccessible homeland. Roots Bloody Roots is about you, or someone you know and care for.”

In both the single and the video, Wanderley takes center stage, her heavy gutturals complimenting the angry and thick notes from the cello. Kapitur’s version of the song maintains all the power and aggression that the original does, with the classical instrument being played with as much intensity as the rest of the instruments played by Sam Neumann (drums), Bruno Coe (bass) and Zach Dean (guitars).

Wanderley is the primary songwriter for the band and she has been influenced by progressive rock and death metal and more recently experimental and drone music. Heavy and ethereal, the music of Kapitur is recommended for fans of Opeth, modern Swans, and Godspeed! You Black Emperor.

Watch and listen to Kapitur‘s cello cover video of Sepultura‘s “Roots Bloody Roots” at https://youtu.be/tR7ySvFo7o8

Spotify pre-save: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/kapitur/bloody-roots

Kapitur.bandcamp.com

For more info:
Facebook.com/kapiturband
Instagram.com/kapiturband

BIO:

Artist and multi-instrumentalist Bruna Wanderley draws from a young life in Brazil, living in an environment of violence, fear, and contrasting beauty. Growing up in a conservative Evangelical milieu has led her to tease her family’s most beloved boundaries and, since her solo arrival to infamously libertine Montreal in 2015, she has actively performed and recorded as a cellist in a wide array of contexts. Under her most recent metal-influenced group Kapitur she composes, sings, performs guttural vocals, and plays the cello. Sam Neumann’s unyielding drumming presents a strong contrast with her unbound vocal and cello lines. The music is filled with soundscapes, hammering repetitions, with bleak cacophony followed by heavenly melodies. It can be heavy, ethereal, warm, sorrowful, and atmospheric like a slow apocalypse. Besides the Roots Bloody Roots cover, Kapitur will release an EP with four original songs in the upcoming months.

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