Born in cotton plantation, live in crossroad junction...From planet Catom, arrived to Earth in 1999. Songs made in junction farm's old house, in old trash gears. After a lot of badass shows in deep deep South America, the guys and hundred latex groupies run to take their grammy awards!
To seek varied observations of quotidian, fuse them together, and bring the future of expression and artistic intepretation to the present moment is a feature of avant-gard art.
This what Madcat Leo makes in his creations: art and reality around him are read back and reconstructed according to composer's perception and performances.
Madcat Leo's experimental music mixes fragments of different musical styles, which can take us from blues to rock, going through Afro-Brazilian beats, to avant-garde's musique concrète, in a transgressive reading of the modern world. It goes far beyond human's vision of the world, but holds in itself the fitting - so many times imprecise - of the man in the world, or among his similars, in his environment of out of it. In the end, sounds - rearranjed and revisited by the musician's sight -, make complete pictures of a reality, even if crazy and chaotic, that's drawn for much far from the artist.
Influences Dr. John, Hound Dog Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Jan Gabarek, Jimmy Page, Johnny Copeland, Dimebag Darrell, Johnny Winter, Mongo Santamaria, Nana Vasconcellos, Eric Dolphy, Flora Purim, Allman Brothers, Doors, I-Roy, Lee Scratch Perry, Luc Ferrari, John Coltrane, Daminhão Experiença, Rashied Ali, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Art Pepper, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Ivo Perelman, Captain Beefhart, Prong, Jimmi Smith, Don Cherry, Charlie Parker, Paul Butterfield, Carcass, John Zorn, Booker T, Napalm Death, CSN, Elvin Jones, Sun Ra, Marc Cary, Anthony Braxton, Brian Blade, Taj Mahal, Fiona Appple, Yusef Lateef, Terje Rypdal, Gerry Mulligan, James Blood Ulmer, Sarcófago...others