SOUND

Minimalist gothic dub from Brazil with an anarcho-feminist message – that’s one way to describe the music of the quartet Rakta from São Paulo. Vocalist Paula Rebellato intones insistent mantras to hard-hitting, repetitive rhythms, while her companions infi ltrate the ear with deceptively smooth echoes of bass, only to suddenly rupture the eardrum with nasty chirps of feedback. On their list of favourite bands are Can, Crass, and Sleep – but Rakta’s hypnotic rawness is like nothing you have heard before and very much in the here and now.