Thundercat, the heavy bassist who discovered a ‘soft’ side and comes to Sónar Lisboa. “Portugal? Remind me that I had a giant steak there”
Stephen Lee Bruner is an unfamiliar name to most people, but Thundercat will perhaps be recognized in the north: the American bassist is getting ready to return to our country to perform at the premiere edition of the Sónar Lisboa festival, with a concert scheduled for at 10 pm next Friday, the 8th, at Sónar By Night – Pavilhão Carlos Lopes. The musician who in 2018 brought the acclaimed album “Drunk” to the NOS Primavera Sound festival is now preparing to present his successor, “It Is What It Is”, released in April 2020, precisely when the world closed doors. and live music was held. But the stage is the natural habitats of Los Angeles that are in a series of years of animation of the years that choose the stage name. Thundercat returned to the stage in June 2021 and, since then, has not stopped adding concerts in venues and festivals on both sides of the Atlantic, including events such as the Pitchfork festival or Wilco.‘s Sky Blue Sky, curated by Wilco and in which the bassist played alongside the likes of Stephen Malkmus, Jeff Tweedy or Nubya Garcia.
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