Samba de Monalisa (Tetine vs. Sophie Calle) by Tetine & Sophie Calle - Slum Dunk [SDM024]

Samba de Monalisa (Tetine vs. Sophie Calle)

Tetine & Sophie Calle

A 12 track electronic album (55m 36s) — released June 20th 2025 on Slum Dunk

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Tetine Vs Sophie Calle - "Samba de Monalisa", is the second album by Brazilian duo Tetine formed by Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado, recorded and produced in London in 2001. Originally released on Robin Rimbaud (a.k.a Scanner)'s Sulphur Records in 2002 as part of Meld series - a collection of unexpected collaborations between artsts/musicians exploring the union of one artist with another, breaking the mould, dissolving expectations in the hope of opening up a fresh wound in the sound, the album will complete 23 years this year and Slum Dunk Music is proud to re-release it.

Samba de Monalisa is an atmosperic audio-road movie that brings together the distinctive work of Tetine and acclaimed French artist Sophie Calle. The album feautures 12 experimental tracks that blend electronic dark sambas,avant hip-hop, filmic soundscapes, dialogues/sopken interludes, experimental electropop and other bossas. Much of the material draws on samples from Calle's cult film Double Blind, also known as No Sex Last Night - an autobiohraphical account of a raod trip across America filmed by Sophie Calle and American photorapher Greg Shephard - re-imagined and reanimated into sound by Tetine.

Samba de Monalia was extensively performed by Tetine across the UK, Europe, and Brazil — including special occasions such as the album's launch at the Whitechapel Art Gallery during the film night The Politics of Self-Indulgence , curated by the late Ian White, and later at Sophie Calle's solo exhibition Take Care of Yourself (Cuide de você) at SESC Pompéia in São Paulo in 2009.

Dig it, and you'll find a sonic world of quirky, off-kilter beauty.

Below is some of the praise Tetine vs. Sophie Calle received at the time of its original release.

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"Tetine, Brazilian artists Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado have created a dispassionate American travelogue of great tenderness and reserve. As male and female voices offer intimate insights into the directionless, inertial flow of their relationship, a sharply defined soundtrack follows them on a road trip from New York to Vegas…The televangelist rant, cool French tone and Hip Hop lope of the opening suggest an emotionally detached take on Jean Luc Godard's classic debut Au Bout De Souffle but the mute longing of 'Amada Amante' and 'I Met Him in The Bar' go way beyond even that'. Ken Hollings, The Wire. June 2002
"Le travail de Tetine et Sophie Calle est à rapprocher de celui de Genesis P.Orridge dans so projet Splinter Test (Welcome to Las Vegas oú l'on perçoit la voix surnaturelle de Roy Orbison) ou bien encore des constructions méditatives de Stephen Jones (Hotel Madrid). Sur le plan de la narration, le glissement du privé au public, de l'intime à l'ouvre, cher à Sophie Calle, démontre avec brio qu'il existe des alternatives dignes aux cogitations loft-storyennes: le journal intime électronique…. La musique atosphérique et lointaine de Tetine apport un nouvel eclairage, inedit et enchanteur, aux autofictions de Sophie Calle'.4/5 Lionel Delamonte, Chronic'art, France, June 2002
"Electronica album of the month" - Tower Records Picadilly Circus, June 2002

"L'apport musical du duo Tetine donne aux quelques extraits narratifs ou de dialogues une force et une sentimentalié étonnantes. D'une très belle justesse. D'une just finnesse. L'albu prend vraiment une dimension de document sonore où les instantes clés du film son't saisis, montrés puis étendus en des plages musicales que décortiquent la scène et la font apparaître a nu…'. Clarknova Magazine, France, June 2002


'…atmospheric mysterious film dialogue drifting darkly across some strangely scratched electronic riffs. Why you ask? Because the São Paulo based duo Tetine have a thing about the cult French artist called Sophie Calle'. Robert Sandall, Mixing it, BBC Radio 3, April 2002"


"El cine negro se refleja en los ambientes oscuros de 'Welcome To Las Vegas' y el romántico conecta con 'Music For Mechanics' debido sus violines y conversaciones. 'Sandalia Quebrada' vuelve a esa mezcla electrosamba y ambientes sintéticos aderezados por voces, esta vez sin un diálogo explícito. Más preciosista e actual es 'Hotel Madrid', tema que conecta con artificieros de la electronica como Múm'... Estamos pues ante un disco para los amantes de la música electrónica con aporte cinematográfico e experimental (aunque sin ecxesivos riesgo). Lo cual no es poco." Satelite Pop, Madrid, July, 2002

"Um pouco como a própria Sophie Calle, o Tetine quer refletir sobre dois eixos. As conexões possíveis entre a 'alta cultura' e os mass media e entre o público e o privado (..) Samba de Monalisa recupera de certa forma o viés experimentalista e falado de Alexander's Grave, o álbum de estreia de 1996. Nesse, o 'gatilho' não era o cinema mas o teatro e literatura com fragmentos de textos de Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Strindberg Musset e outros". Alex Antunes, Revista Bravo, Brazil, Set, 2002

'Fave tracks are 'No Sex Last Nigh' and 'Amada Amante'. Even though it is really quite complex and multilayered, repeated listening is rather rewarding. It is actually quite an accessible album, given the right exposure it could be a cult crossover, attains cult status and so much publicity that it crosses over into mainstream popularity'. Clive Craske, Jazzical Gaz, April 2002'

…atmospheric mysterious film dialogue drifting darkly across some strangely scratched electronic riffs. Why you ask? Because the São Paulo based duo Tetine have a thing about the cult French artist called Sophie Calle'. Robert Sandall, Mixing it, BBC Radio 3, April 2002"Recommended tune: 'No Sex Last Night' - Tetine vs Sophie Calle. BBC Radio 1, June 2002

Recommended electronica album of the month. Tower Records, May 2002.

'Impresario of indulgence Ian White and Brazilian performance duo Tetine deliver a seriously whacked out evening of mixed media mayhem that covers all the bases and barely stops for breath. Tetine themselves are launching their new dirty beats/ found voices cd made in collaboration with following artist Sophie Calle; there's image work from them, videos by Queen of Endurance Art Marina Abramovic and the marvelous Chicks on Speed; and more much more is promissed. From hybrid to hola!, high culture to 'Here She is Again', why not shake your booty at WAG this Friday?' GE, Time Out London, June 2002

Tetine, Brazilian artists Bruno Verner and Eliete Mejorado have created a dispassionate American travelogue of great tenderness and reserve. As male and female voices offer intimate insights into the directionless, inertial flow of their relationship, a sharply defined soundtrack follows them on a road trip from New York to Vegas…The televangelist rant, cool French tone and Hip Hop lope of the opening suggest an emotionally detached take on Jean Luc Godard’s classic debut Au Bout De Souffle but the mute longing of ‘Amada Amante’ and ‘I Met Him in The Bar’ go way beyond even that’. - Ken Hollings The Wire

Le travail de Tetine et Sophie Calle est à rapprocher de celui de Genesis P.Orridge dans so projet Splinter Test (Welcome to Las Vegas oú l’on perçoit la voix surnaturelle de Roy Orbison) ou bien encore des constructions méditatives de Stephen Jones (Hotel Madrid). Sur le plan de la narration, le glissement du privé au public, de l’intime à l’ouvre, cher à Sophie Calle, démontre avec brio qu’il existe des alternatives dignes aux cogitations loft-storyennes: le journal intime électronique…. La musique atosphérique et lointaine de Tetine apport un nouvel eclairage, inedit et enchanteur, aux autofictions de Sophie Calle'.4/5 - Lionel Delamonte Chronic’art, France

Electronica album of the month - Tower Records

L’apport musical du duo Tetine donne aux quelques extraits narratifs ou de dialogues une force et une sentimentalié étonnantes. D’une très belle justesse. D’une just finnesse. L’albu prend vraiment une dimension de document sonore où les instantes clés du film son’t saisis, montrés puis étendus en des plages musicales que décortiquent la scène et la font apparaître a nu…’. - Robert Sandall, Clarknova Magazine, France

Recommended tune: 'No Sex Last Night' - Tetine vs Sophie Calle. BBC Radio 1, June 2002 - BBC Radio 1

Impresario of indulgence Ian White and Brazilian performance duo Tetine deliver a seriously whacked out evening of mixed media mayhem that covers all the bases and barely stops for breath. Tetine themselves are launching their new dirty beats/ found voices cd made in collaboration with following artist Sophie Calle; there's image work from them, videos by Queen of Endurance Art Marina Abramovic and the marvelous Chicks on Speed; and more much more is promissed. From hybrid to hola!, high culture to 'Here She is Again', why not shake your booty at WAG this Friday? - G E GE, Time Out London, June 2002

Fave tracks are 'No Sex Last Nigh' and 'Amada Amante'. Even though it is really quite complex and multilayered, repeated listening is rather rewarding. It is actually quite an accessible album, given the right exposure it could be a cult crossover, attains cult status and so much publicity that it crosses over into mainstream popularity'. Clive Craske, - Clive Craske Jazzical Gaz, April 2002'

Um pouco como a própria Sophie Calle, o Tetine quer refletir sobre dois eixos. As conexões possíveis entre a 'alta cultura' e os mass media e entre o público e o privado (..) Samba de Monalisa recupera de certa forma o viés experimentalista e falado de Alexander's Grave, o álbum de estreia de 1996. Nesse, o 'gatilho' não era o cinema mas o teatro e literatura com fragmentos de textos de Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Strindberg Musset e outros - Alex Antunes Bravo

El cine negro se refleja en los ambientes oscuros de 'Welcome To Las Vegas' y el romántico conecta con 'Music For Mechanics' debido sus violines y conversaciones. 'Sandalia Quebrada' vuelve a esa mezcla electrosamba y ambientes sintéticos aderezados por voces, esta vez sin un diálogo explícito. Más preciosista e actual es 'Hotel Madrid', tema que conecta con artificieros de la electronica como Múm'... Estamos pues ante un disco para los amantes de la música electrónica con aporte cinematográfico e experimental (aunque sin ecxesivos riesgo). Lo cual no es poco. - Satellite Pop, Madrid

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