Arto Lindsay & Band

Musician, producer and multimedia artist Arto Lindsay is a ‘traveller between worlds’ in a biographical as well as an artistic sense. Born in the US but grown up in Brazil, Lindsay first put his name on the map as guitarist of the New York based DNA, a short-lived trio formed in the environment of Manhattan’s avant-garde rock scene around Laurie Anderson, Blondie and the Talking Heads. Today, the band is regarded as the legitimate inventor of noise rock and has served as a model for countless epigones. Later on, Lindsay played with the Lounge Lizards and the Golden Palominos, co-opped with John Zorn or David Byrne, acted and produced. In all his projects, the artistic approach to the Brazilian music of his adolescence came to play an increasingly important role. What started off as bawled lyrics in Brazilian with DNA, in time developed into trailblazing experiments with bossa novas and sambas as well as the attempt to reconcile Brazilian popular music with avant-garde techniques and meticulous experimenting on sounds. Salt, Lindsay’s latest album, was highly acclaimed by critics and presented in Germany during an extensive tour in 2004. The album is dedicated to the Brazilian Carnival: pleasant harmony lines in a rather folkloristic vein are joined by computer-generated patched-up sounds and clanging beats.