Carnivale Entertainment: Savidas

SAVIDAS are performing at the Carnivale Club Sunset Session before the Street Parade kicks off on Friday, and also at entertainment zones all along Macrossan Street between 8.30 pm and midnight.

The music of Savidas is a seamless wave of acoustic rootsy grooves, haunting melodies, and deep vocals that pose the question within the answer. Having been described as Michael Franti meets John Butler, a touch of White Stipes and sprinkled with the ironic truth of Leonard Cohen. Crossing the divide between acoustic roots, funk and hip hop. The SAVIDAS duo – Gumpy Gumpsavidas and Uma Vernau (AKA Umalicious) hail from the deep dark underbelly of The St Kilda music syndicate.

SAVIDAS cut their teeth playing at some the most infamous music venues throughout Melbourne.— It wasn’t long before SAVIDAS were funk’n strum’n and hum’n their unmistakable sound across some of the some of the biggest festivals in Australia. Such as Falls Festival, Rainbow Serpent, Earthcore, The Push Over –(w/Silver Chair), Earthdance just to name a few. Proving that their music can stylistically bridge any gap.

SAVIDAS have just released their EP “Knot Perfect” which is out on MSONIC RECORDS—– info@savidas.com——– PH:+61 433 462 122

http://www.myspace.com/gumpsavidas

History:

To understand the sound of Savidas we must go back almost a decade. Gumpy is touching down at JFK airport New York on a flight that has come from London where he and his band. (The heavy groove Rock/Rap outfit Blind Munkee.) were set to sign a huge record deal. Only to quickly discover that all that glitters is not gold. The band took a vote on how long they could survive all crammed into a bed sit in Finsbury Park catching the night bus to gigs with all their gear and waiting to knock Oasis of the charts…. Gumpy lost the vote 4 to 1. So now Gumpy having lucked out in London, but still determined is walking solo out the airport doors into a New York winter armed with nothing but his Blue Acoustic 78 quid and a demo tape he’d recorded in the few days before he was evicted from his London abode. Gumpy made his way into the East Village and began to hustle for gigs. Being that he was just one little guy with his acoustic guitar, but the only style of music he had ever played live was hip hop and rock he was faced with a dilemma. So in CBGB’s in down town New York the seed that was to become the sound of Savidas was first planted as Gumpy dropped funky irreverent rhymes atop Blue Acoustic guitar riffs and the audience within the Smokey surrounds began to nod their heads the seed was being incubated. Gumpy spent the next few years in New York establishing himself as a prominent music producer while also playing around New York with his solo show which had numerous guests including some of the most renowned musicians in the world. Gumpy returned to Australia to set up his production company “Incontainable Sound” and to produce the finest Australia had to offer. Within his mining for talent within the rich merky waters of the Melbourne music scene One night at a regular renegade jam he and some friends were running in StKilda out of the crowd bounced a girl who could seamlessly drop the funkiest percussion rhythms known to man and then grab the mic and drop endless free style rhymes that would leave jaws dropped and the room hot, who went by the name Umalicous. Her number one catch cry was “I live to make music I got the rhythm and I’ll use it.” The melodic union of Gumpy and Umalicoius was as if it was the way it always was and now – is the sound the world has come to know as SAVIDAS.

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