Kiko & The Blues Refugees - Threadbare (2021)

Kiko & The Blues Refugees is a supergroup made up of experienced and renowned musicians from the national scene: the musician, composer and producer Kiko Pereira, Portuguese-American who the critic José Duarte chose as the best male voice in jazz in Portugal, joins a team of excellence like António Mão de Ferro (guitars), Jorge Filipe Santos (keyboards), Carl Minnemann (bass) and João Cunha (drums).

Kiko & The Blues Refugees make the Blues a starting point for crossing with different styles: the new old school blues. The single “Giver” is the first sample of the album: composed and recorded shortly before the start of the pandemic, this theme proved to be something premonitory and representative of a new global “normality”. The video by Kiko Pereira and Anabela Trindade, has the collaboration of some famous “hands”: since Rui Reininho, Selma Uamusse, Helder Reis, Peter Eldridge, Fernando Martins, among many others.

On February 13, Kiko & The Blues Refugees will release their debut album “Threadbare”: produced by Mário Barreiros and Kiko Pereira, it is a sound film that exposes the currentness of a universal genre and the countless roads through which it can take us . Kiko Pereira's 11 original themes take us at the starting point, in the deep south of the United States, and take us through the different roads where the blues spread, between the Mississippi Delta and Chicago, passing through Detroit and crossing with other genres such as rock-roll, rhythm and blues, soul or jazz.

The album features the participation of some special guests such as Marta Ren, BJ Cole (with previous works with musicians such as Elton John, Sting, Beck, Bjork or Depeche Mode), Mila Dores, João Andresen and Rafaela Alves.