Mário Rui Silva

“There was a need with­in me to con­tribute in doing new things,” Mário describes. ​“In the sense of solid­i­fy­ing the music of Ango­la that was the result of the meet­ing of two cul­tures, and want­i­ng to val­ue the Angolan part when­ev­er pos­si­ble.”

A selec­tion from Mário’s three 1980s albums, Sung’Ali (1982), Tunapen­da Afri­ka (1985) and Koizas dum Out­ru Tem­pu (1988) have been com­piled as a 2xLP release by Time Cap­sule and released in June 2021. It pro­vides a snap­shot of one man’s jour­ney to the core of his nation’s music, charged with the search for a cul­ture uproot­ed by colo­nial­ism. Praised by bth glob­al DJs and taste mak­ers alike, the first press of the dou­ble LP was quick­ly sold out after a cou­ple of weeks.
Mário ded­i­cat­ed his life to Angolan pop­u­lar music. His fifty-year career has seen him live between Ango­la and Europe, rub shoul­ders with Cameroon­ian musi­cians Fran­cis Bebey and Ewan­jé, record the sem­i­nal album Ango­la ​’72 with fel­low Angolan musi­cian Bon­ga, and draw influ­ence from Brazil­ian gui­tarist Baden Pow­ell.

He will be accom­pa­nied by his long-time col­lab­o­ra­tors from Ango­la Mário Gar­na­cho (who played the key­boards on the 1^st sin­gle of the com­pi­la­tion ​“Kazum-zum-zum” and Nel­son Oliveira on bass. He’ll also wel­come one his stu­dents and a mas­ter Angolan per­cus­sion­ist based in Lon­don Tel­lo Mor­ga­do (2000 Black / Joce­lyn Brown) and anoth­er Lon­don based drum­mer Elias Kako­mano­lis (Car­men Souza) from Mozam­bique.

Full Line­up:
Mário Rui Sil­va (Gt/​Vo)
Mário Gar­na­cho (Key)
Nel­son Oliveira (Bass)
Elias Kako­mano­lis (Drums)
Tel­lo Mor­ga­do (Perc)

Lis­ten to the com­pi­la­tion ​“Sto­ries From Anoth­er Time 1982 – 1988“https://​time​cap​sule​.lnk​.to/​M​a​r​i​o​R​u​i​Silva