World-pop (by a power trio.) Lucas Santtana is a Brazilian sound wizard. Guitarist and singer, but also a clever multi-instrumentalist and cunning master in modern devices. He likes to use, amongst other things, a 'monome', a 'hand-made open-source sampler' (see below, for more about those those nice dials and loops.)

Santtana has already worked with Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Arto Lindsey, Tom Zé, Chico Science...

But is also onto his fifth CD now too: 'O Deus que devasta mas também cura.' Doing so, seemingly, at the same time as the remix album 'Remix Nostalgia' and (yup) a remix of 'Sem Nostalgia' (his breakthrough CD from 2011). There's already been outright praise for it from Les Inrocks and The Times. The Radio 1 website has offered extensive Lucas Santtana pre-playing too.

Pleasant terms like 'altpop, afrobeat, reggaeton, electrorock...' are then dropped. But also : 'technicolour masterpiece, soaring symphonic ballads, horn-led ska, heavyweight grooves, fizzing melodies and dazzling arrangements.'

Lucas and his trio like to compare their layered approach with the methods of Radiohead or Metronomy: 'Almost everything has already been done, in terms of melody, rhythm and harmony. Nobody's going to reinvent the wheel. What we can do is spin the sound in a new way.'

Give it a spin!

Support-act will be none less than Catherine Feeny. An attractive American lady who has already been welcomed in the AB a number of times. But this time with her fourth CD, extra exciting as it is explicitly linked to the Occupy-movement. Miss Feeny was intensely involved at the end of last year (see too: the clip.) She might possibly be facing a court appearance for that too. The events have clearly also marked her lyrics and music: 'This galvanizing experience inspired Feeny's fourth solo album. A bold and haunting statement about a nation on a precipice, "America" deftly juxtaposes the fragile beauty of hope with the menace of arrogance and corruption.'