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TUCAN TUCAN is a group of musicians
hailing mainly from Mozambique and residing in Cape Town,
South Africa. Led by drummer Frank Paco, their music is
a fusion of African and South American styles. catching
them live will only lead you get on the dance floor and
shake what . catching them live will only lead you to the
dance floor and shake what your mama gave you.
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Tucan Tucan
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The group was born early in 2001 when they debuted
at the Kirstenbosch Sunset Concerts and since then they have played
all the major festivals in South Africa such as The Jazzathon in
Cape Town, Arts Alive in Jo'Burg , Spier Summer Series in Cape Town
as well as overseas at the Villa Centimontana Jazz festival in Italy.
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Frank Paco
Drummer and Leader |
TUCAN TUCAN is Frank Paco(drums/perc/vocals),
Helder Gonzaga(bass), Texito Langa(perc), Muriel Marco(keyboards/vocals),Angelo
Syster(guitar) and Xixel Langa(lead vocals) and usually they
are joined by sax man Buddy Wells. Check out detailed bios
of the members at www.tucan-tucan.com
as well as giving their music a listen or purchasing any of
their CD's.
Little River Studios had the pleasure of being involved in
both of the groups CD's, their debut "xiluba" and
the lastest "make a differnce". Ghalik Jacobs, recording
engineer and producer from Little River Studios took time
out from life to record the demo for "xiluba" in
2001 and 2003 co-produced the album with frank paco amd Muriel
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Then in 2006 Ghalik recorded "make
a differnce". Both CD's were recorded at Beach Road Studios,
SABC, Cape Town using Protools HD and an assortment of vintage
mics mainly Neumanns. The album was tracked rythm section
first, then vocals and overdubs. According to Ghalik, "Make
a difference" took about thirteen days to record and
as many days to mix and master.
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Ghalik Jacobs
recording "make a difference"
Beach Road Sudios Oct 2006
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"A day was usually 12 hours and the last
few days we hardly slept", says Ghalik, "There was no
time to chill....the music has an enormous amount of instrumentation
and sounds that there was no time to mess, studio time is costly,
especially with indie groups such as TUCAN TUCAN. When you listen
to the CD's you will know what I mean."
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Xixel Langa - vocals |
Texito Langa - perc |
Helder Gonzaga - bass |
Muriel Marco - keyboards |
Angelo Syster - guitar |
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TUCAN TUCAN