Cibelle

Cibelle (born Cibelle Cavalli Bastos in São Paulo, Brazil, 1978) is a visual artist and musician based in London, Berlin and São Paulo. She graduated in 2015 from the Royal College of Art in London. Cibelle has released four music albums and has performed and presented work in venues such as Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, ICA London, Carnegie Hall New York, Serpentine Marathon, 28th and 31st São Paulo Biennial among others.

Cibelle
Cibelle lives in London, United Kingdom
Background information
Birth name	Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
Born	(1978-01-02) 2 January 1978 Sao Paulo, Brazil
Genres	non-conforming experimental
Occupation(s)	Musician performance artist Visual artist Record producer
Instruments	Vocals Guitar Piano Electronics Sampler Percussion Multi-instrumentalist

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos has a conceptual, expanded field and interdisciplinary practice that includes thought production, performance, sound art, video, painting, sculpture and installation. Currently operating daily through social media stories under @aevtarperform, researching intrapolitics and devising nanopolitics through deprogramming self/ID of societal malware at a personal and collective level, their work addresses the deconstruction and formation of identities and what stands in between the self and presence as our multi-selves interact with each other and our surroundings. #deprogramming

Biography

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos was born in São Paulo, Brazil, 2 January 1978. She attended the Marcelo Tupinambá Conservatory in São Paulo from the age of 6, where they studied guitar, piano, percussion and theatre. She had a short career modelling in her teens, but left it to dedicate herself to acting and art. She worked in musicals, short films, and Brazilian TV, until music took a stronger lead in her life, followed by their focus in art practice and research.

After meeting the Serbian-born producer Suba, they appeared as the main vocalist on his album, São Paulo Confessions, on Ziriguiboom (Crammed Discs' Brazilian imprint) in 1999. A mixture of traditional and electronic sounds São Paulo Confessions is regarded as an important precursor and a landmark album for Brazilian Electronic Music. Suba died shortly after the album's release.

Cibelle next appeared on Celso Fonseca's album, Natural (2003). Her first solo album, Cibelle, was also released in 2003. Signed to Belgian record label Crammed Discs[1] at the age of 22, she started spending more time in Europe, specifically Paris. By the completion of her first album, she moved to London's Brick Lane, and has since been living in East London.[2]

Music and Methodology

Cibelle creates concept albums.[3]

Her band is made up of around 10 musicians or more who each get together as trios. depending on the country of performance. Her latest performances ranged from having two drum kits on stage, to having none at all.

Cibelle works by building tracks live on stage, with special guests and audience members contributing to her "bric-a-brac DIY" sound through vocals, playfulness and instrumental experimentation. Since moving to Dalston, she has been working more with visual arts and performance, taking part in the abravanista movement with Rick Castro – also a part of Assume Vivid Astro Focus – and collaborating as a part of collective and artzine FUR, run by photographer Cássia Cabatini and artist/printmaker Fábio Gurjão.[4]

Collaborations

Cibelle has collaborated with a range of music and visual artists all over the world for recordings, film, performance, and installation, including: Devendra Banhart, The Real Tuesday Weld, Seu Jorge, Cocorosie, Rio en Medio, Gilberto Gil, Júnio Barreto, Vanessa da Mata, Orquestra Imperial, Vetiver, Lightspeed Champion, Josh Weller, David Shrigley, Tom Zé, Johnny Flynn, Quist, Tunng, members of Nação Zumbi and The Legendary Tigerman.

Discography

Albums

• Cibelle (2003)
• The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves (2006) (cover art by Cibelle)
• Las Vênus Resort Palace Hotel (2010)
• Unbinding (2013)

EPs

• About a Girl EP (2005)
• Noite de Carnaval/Matthew Herbert Remixes (2005)
• Green Grass EP (2007)
• White Hair EP (2008)

Collaborations

• Suba (1999), São Paulo Confessions (vocals on 3 tracks), Crammed Discs.
• Suba (2002), Tributo (vocals on 4 tracks), Crammed Discs.
• O Cheiro do Ralo, OST, 2006.
• Electric Gypsyland 2, Crammed Discs, 2006: 1 track by Kocani Orkestar remixed by Cibelle.
• Nove, Apollo (2005), Res Inexplicata Volans, Crammed Discs: vocals on 3 tracks
• Worried Noodles (TomLab Records, 2008): 1 original track
• Femina by The Legendary Tiger Man (2009): vocals on 2 tracks

References

1. Crammed, BE.
2. "Cibelle", Brazil (interview), Sounds & Colours.
3. You tube (video), UK: Google.
4. Furzine, UK.

External links

• Cibelle, Blackbird, My space.
• Cibelle, Crammed Discs, archived from the original on 4 August 2012, retrieved 4 August 2012.