Patife Band

Patife Band
Also known as	Paulo Patife Band (1983)
Origin	São Paulo, Brazil
Genres	Post-punk, experimental rock, noise rock, math rock
Years active	1983–1990; 2003; 2005–present
Labels	Lira Paulistana, WEA
Associated acts	Itamar Assumpção, Arrigo Barnabé, Metrô, Okotô
Members	Paulo Barnabé Richard Firmino Paulo Braga Matheus Leston Gustavo Boni Paulo Mello Fábio Gouvêa
Past members	Sidney Giovenazzi Maurício Biazzi James Muller Cidão Trindade Eduardo Batistela André Fonseca

Patife Band ("patife" is a word in Portuguese meaning "stooge" or "knucklehead") is a Brazilian post-punk band formed in São Paulo in 1983 by Paulo Barnabé, initially under the name Paulo Patife Band. They are considered to be one of the major exponents of the "Vanguarda Paulistana" movement. Characterized by its heavily experimental and almost non-descript musical style, that uses dodecaphonism and atonality as main principles of composition and flirts with many different genres such as jazz, punk rock, traditional Brazilian music and popular music, it was favorably compared to American band Pere Ubu, and one critic at some point called their sound "a crossing between King Crimson and Fear".

The band was disestablished in 1990, but reformed briefly in 2003 with a new line-up and releasing a live album. In 2005 it was reformed again with yet another line-up, and since then they make sporadic shows around São Paulo. A further change on the band's line-up was made in 2015.

Heavily influenced by the style of Itamar Assumpção, Patife Band was founded in São Paulo in 1983 as Paulo Patife Band, by Paulo Barnabé (the younger brother of Brazilian actor and musician Arrigo Barnabé), André Fonseca (who would form experimental rock band Okotô in 1987, and serve as synthpop band Metrô's guitarist from 2002 to 2004), Sidney Giovenazzi and James Muller. Muller, however, left the band one year later, and was replaced by Cidão Trindade. In the same year, they simplified their name to only Patife Band.

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