Rui Silva was born in Angola in ’53 and has been making and playing music for the last 50 years alongside the likes of Cameroonian musicians Francis Bebey and Ewanjé and with fellow Angolan musician Bonga who he recorded the seminal album ‘Angola ’72’. The music has a Brazilian feel and this is something that Mário attributes to “African rhythms taken by the slaves [which] gave rise to other musical cultures”. He pulls from a diverse range of sounds, from traditional Angolan and West African rhythms to European jazz.