T E T I N E - From A Forest Near You (release date Feb 8th, 2010) Tetine are Brazilian artists/musicians Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado from São Paulo. 'From A Forest Near You' is Tetine’s follow up to 'Let Your X’s Be Y’s' and the 12’’ single I Go To The Doctor both released on Soul Jazz Records in early 2008. The album marks Tetine’s third release on Slum Dunk Music – their own label & radio show on Resonance Fm - but it is in fact their 10th artist album since they formed in São Paulo, Brazil in 1995. From A Forest Near You is a luminous DIY collection of tropical mutant punk funk/ new wave & experimental electro pop fused with minimal dark sambas and leftfield percussive drum machine-pop. Recorded at home, the album features 14 tracks that are heavy on electronic and organic elements with funky basslines, percussion, synths and guitars – forming a set of personal electronic/post punk pieces with a very distinctive melodic and harmonic sense. With From A Forest Near You, Tetine speaks of identity, utopia, space, uncertainty, sex, family, loss, relationships – themes that are recurrent in their work as performance artists & incorporate these ideas into songs about ordinary fragments of everyday life. At times evocative of the early 80's electronic dance-punk scene but also heavily influenced by Brazilian artists such as Os Mutantes, Novos Baianos & Rogerio Sganzerla - via an unconditional love for the music of Kraftwerk, Brian Eno and Can - From A Forest Near