BIOGRAPHY
Riviera Gaz is a multinational trio built around Gustavo Riviera (leader of Brazilian band Forgotten Boys), multi-instrumentalist Paulo Kishimoto (Pitty, Forgotten Boys), and drummer Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth). What began as Riviera's solo project in Paris in 2013 became a full band by 2016, when Kishimoto and Shelley joined. The group released the Pere Ubu EP in 2016 and its debut album Connection in 2018, a raw, punk-inflected record touring Stooges-style attack with Kinks and Bowie pop instincts. They toured across Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile before releasing their second album, Catacroma, which pushes the songs into stranger, more expansive territory.