GANGgajang

Torcida Do... B  R  A  S  I  L

Tudo bom? Tudo bem! 

GANGgajang have completed 3 national tours of Brazil and have made some very good friends along the way.

We've played to 20,000 people on the beach at Barra de Tajuca in Rio de Janeiro, survived the "Gruta Azul" (Blue Cave) in Porto Allegre, and in 1995 we even had the honour of meeting the Mamonas Assassinas on, of all places, the Seu Boneco TV show!

GANGgajang is a ...

Torcida Do Brasil!

Hello to all of our friends in...

... You Rock !

We feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to perform in Brazil.

We've come to know the people and the culture a little better with each visit and appreciate that Australia and Brazil share more than just the southern cross on their flag and a colonial past.

I know we have brought a bit of Australian culture  to Brazil because we met a guy in Curitiba and  the only English he could speak was all of the lyrics to the GANGgajang song "Ambulance Men"!

BRASILIAN PARTY IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA!

All of our Brasilian friends in Australia came to the "One World Sports Bar", Darling Harbour, Sydney Australia.

It was very very cool... even our friend Marcio Pxe (see photo below) was there, straight off a plane from Rio!

It was almost like being in Brasil..(but not quite, because nothing is like being in Brasil)... it was a great night!

community... growing daily!

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Hear "Carioca Girl"

One of the new songs from our latest album "Oceans and Deserts" is called "Carioca Girl". Cal and Robbie began writing it in Copacabana in Rio on first tour of Brasil in 1995, and it is finally available.

Go to the GANGgajang jukebox and hear the song!

 Drop in to GANGworld and say hi to Lisa!

Cal and Marcio in Guaruja.He designed the CD cover for Chronologica!

  Our most recent tour of Brazil was with three other great Australian bands.

Yothu Yindi, Spy V Spy and The Chevelles...and what a tour it was!

Special thanks to expat Aussie, Ian Marshall for making it all happen, getting us home alive, and finally locating a set of timbales!

And also to Marcio for amongst other things, donating his hat!

Thanks Ricardo!

Without a man by the name of Ricardo Chantilly, I doubt that GANGgajang would ever have been introduced to the Brazilian people.

He became aware of our music while he was in Australia judging international surfing competitions.

When he got back to Rio he began playing our music on his surf radio show, and it connected.

He also organised our first couple of tours.

Thanks Ricardo!

And a special thank you to Marcello, Sergio and Tony.

To coincide with our most recent tour, we released a double album set called,

"Chronologica".

Well travelled flag!

This is a painting Geoff did on the '96 Tour of Brasil...from his unhinged perspective! (He was attempting a perfect replica!)

He began painting it in Critiba...did most of the work in Florianopolis.. finished it in Sao Paulo...sold it in Sydney to a Brazilian lawyer and she took it back to Rio!