Gruff Rhys's Separado! & Tony da Gatorra, BFI Southbank

A crazy mélange of plip-plop beats, coconut-shell rhythms and cheese-grater guitar

by Kieron TylerSunday, 01 August 2010

Cosmic patagonian intensity

Patagonia’s Welshness was a nagging issue for Gruff Rhys, mainman of Welsh psycho-nauts Super Furry Animals. His distant cousin, the folk singer René Griffiths, was born in the desert-filled southern reaches of Argentina, but visited Wales and appeared there on TV in the mid seventies. Remembering those appearances, Rhys decided to visit Patagonia to search for Griffiths amongst the region’s little-known Welsh-speaking community. Given a Rhys-hosted outing at the BFI yesterday, the resulting film Separado! was billed as being followed by a live set with Brazilian Furry Freak Brother-lookalike Tony da Gatorra.

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