Slum Suit

Bagpipes and violin contrasting with guitar and electric bass. Concerts in ballrooms and theaters contrasting with performances in subway stations and city parks. New York, a city of contrasts where six musicians from Spain, Brazil, Turkey and Japan are grouped under the name, “Slum Suit”. The elegance of what is popular; identity and “interculturality”. Celtic music, jazz, and rumba with the "gaita" (bagpipes from Asturies, northern Spain) as a meeting point.

Slum Suit was conceived in 2016 when the young Asturian piper, Carlos Casado, brought together different musicians - who had never even seen bagpipes before - with one unique goal: to create a popular, modern and traditional sound born from the instruments of people from around the world, demonstrating that all cultures can coalesce as one.

They achieved it. After captivating audiences with their originality and sophistication in diverse performances, such as the New Jersey Harrison Fest and the Richard Tucker Music Foundation (Lincoln Square), and being recognized by the New York Philharmonic's The New World Initiative, Slum Suit now presents its first EP.

'Slum Suit' is a homonymous album comprised of five songs that have no lyrics but are full of history: the odyssey of six immigrants in the city that perpetually reinvents itself. With the protagonist role of the bagpipes and Celtic folk, each theme of this musical work is a sound journey that transports to jazz rhythms, guitar rumberas, the baião of Brazil, the musical lines of the Middle East and beyond.
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An audacious debut that takes grass roots music to territories never before explored, transcends every cultural boundary and manages to eloquently interweave these sounds of contrast. It is the pride of cherished traditions and the beauty of diversity gallantly dressed with the Slum Suit.