Biography
Chinese Poets Cookie is an instrumental trio from Rio de Janeiro formed by Marcos Campello – electric and acoustic guitars / Felipe Zenicola - electric and acoustic basses / Renato Godoy - Drums.
During the concerts, sometimes they improvise, sometimes they play strictly composed arrangements, always moving from one to the other in unbelievable ways.
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For those anxious for comparisons, CCP combines many compound and hyped styles, such as Noise-Rock, Nu-Funk, Free-Prov, No-Wave, Out-Choro, Free-Jazz, Latin-Punk, Proto-Samba...
Some claim that their music is extremely intense and visceral, sometimes elegant, while others classify it as nonsense, or naive aggressiveness. A few can even find it funny.
They play their own material, or Tony Williams, Tom Waits, Eric Dolphy, Marc Ribot, John Zorn...
Their first EP was released in november 2010.
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