6-piece band breaking genre and cultural boundaries from Seattle, WA. This group of miscreants is busy fusing Brazilian and Western sounds like mad scientists to make a modern take on tropicália (a psychedelic, politically progressive musical movement out of ‘60s Brazil). Come, join us in the world of The Cosmic Neighborhood, where music is always playing and there exist things beyond your wildest dreams…
The Cosmic Neighborhood slowly took shape across the West Coast of America over ten years. It started in 2015, stewing slowly in the brain of singer/guitarist Mateus Silva as he grew disillusioned with pulling solely from Western genres and looked more to the sounds of his childhood growing up in Brazil. In a band at the time with drummer Josh Grandbouche (they met in high school in Orange County and have been in bands off and on again for the better part of the last 15 years), sketches of songs started to form in a small practice space in Bellingham, WA. A chance jam session with Teo’s roommate, Adam Perkowski, planted the seed that would blossom into him joining the project full time in 2019 as a bassist.
The band got off to a rough start when they decided to drop their first tracks in March 2020, with the launch immediately derailed by the pandemic. Yet, living together in a disease-safe bubble, the songs that would become their debut album Fora do Azul (“out of the blue” in Brazilian Portuguese) took shape. It was self-recorded in an apartment bedroom by Adam, finally releasing in February 2021. Then, the band was derailed again by family health issues and grad school that saw the band spread out across the West Coast.
A few years, a few moves, and a few members later - Sam Kunesh on keys, Nate Anderson on guitar, and Happy Silva dueting with her brother on vocals remotely from SoCal - the band entered phase two. The double single Lua·Sol came out in 2023, the first product of this newly refreshed group, and writing sessions since have resulted in dozens of songs.
The band is currently living together in a house in Seattle, making album #2 at a studio we built in-house as we navigate the next wave of band-ending threats - a landlord ending our lease and trying to not get completely sick of each other.
