• Felinto - Festa Punk / Festa Block
  • Felinto - Festa Punk / Festa Block

Felinto - Festa Punk / Festa Block

Bokeh Versions

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Sao Paulo's Felinto comes back for another spin on Bokeh Versions, hot on the heels of that BKV 10yr funeral tour, this 7" brings full life-giving skwee punk vibes, hitting somewhere between rowdy digital dancehall rhythm, dub punk drum charge, hardcore-ragga and brazilian lyrical fire - João Kombi, Cint Murphy, Renato Macalé, Shiva Céu, Flanela and Felinto on vocals...

This one makes full sense on BKV, fitting somewhere between the early dubwise BKV sound and the more harder-edged industrial-goth-punk skank of recent years (think BKV Cadavre, Miles on the decks etc).
We're big fans of Felinto too, not just from having heard his music via the last two tapes on BKV, but now also from having seen him play live in Bristol in London, and making a human connection as friends. We can confirm Felinto is a real one!

This 7" captures an up to date punk spirit, and this fact is cemented not just by way of the music and artwork (includes lyric sheet btw!) - but also in the fact that the record sales will directly support important activism in the troubled favelas of Rio, Brazil.
This is the power of music, and its connecting, community strengthening capabilities - not to be underestimated, always to be cherished and amplified.

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"All profits from this release will be sent to activists from Penha in Rio de Janeiro - where 2,500 cops recently raided the favelas, killing 120 people. 

**Festa Punk / Festa Block ** is a call to rage, to ritual, to celebration — as forms of resistance against the grim, creeping global fascism. It’s a shout to bend time, to create moments that shake off erased identities and flip the script on a world that treats violence like gospel.

This sound it’s about connection. It’s street-smart, it’s collective, it’s wild and beautifully messy — a multiverse anthem. It rides for Black folks across the globe, for Indigenous peoples, for the diasporic nomads reshaping urban life with a radical love for the living — for the people, the rocks, the rivers, the sun, the fish, the plants.

We toast to the streets and their spirits, to our comrades in the struggle — the ones who fight for us and the ones we ride for. We honor those standing strong against the cops, the state, and the soul-crushing monoculture of sameness.

We rep the quilombos, the villages, the countryside, the roça … we lift up the ancestors and the power of becoming. This movement salutes every punk soul out there — even the ones who don’t know they’re punk yet.

And we hail Os Replicantes, for offering such amazing schooling through time:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96_WMS4ayw