Vale Tudo is an East Village band that mutated from another NYC band, Chocha, which has its origins in early 90's  Boston psychedelic rock outfit Sub Skin Cables.

Fernando Avila and Peter Gingerich were two of the founding members of Sub Skin Cables.  After SSC went kaput and following few years of wandering the hinterland, Fern and Peter  much to their dismay, somehow landed in the same NYC apartment... of course they started playing music around town.  One gig involved performing abstract improvisations for a group of downtown modern dancers. This is where they met  drummer extraordinaire Dalius Naujokautis.  Dalius spoke two words of English, "free noise."... Chocha was born,  He had recently moved to NY from Lithuania, inspired by his friend, underground film guru, Jonas Mekas. The man who introduced the Velvet Underground to perform at the 1965  New York Psychiatric convention.  Guitar player Mark Banayan, an old aquaintance from Boston and now living in Hoboken, fell into bass duties and eventually took over the guitar chores along with Fern. Chocha gigged around and drank way too much, then, when it all fell apart as all weird things must, nobody left NY and everybody remained relatively friendly as there was no reason not to be.

Mark Banayan headed for the cultural mecca of Brooklyn and wound up playing guitar with the rock outfit In Fervor.  Peter became Pedro for a while and knocked about Manhattan with the Spunk Lads. Dalius continued to carry on as the ultimate free jazz drummer exploring his possibilities with various noise and improvisational outfits such as the Himalayas.  Fernando as always continued to write and record a multitude of songs but never let anyone hear them until he met Rene Veron.  Rene was talking to someone in Spanish at the local rehearsal space, When Fern overheard his conversation in that undeniable Chilean accent, he said "Oye huevon!" The rest is a lil piece of super underground rock history, Rene could play the bass... he was the missing link for Vale Tudo.   Fern called up the boys about getting the band back together, Everyone happily complied as there was nothing else to do.

As a multi instrumentalist and engineer, Rene got the band to focus on the many songs and instrumentals aside from their endless smokey jams.  Thus, Valetudo finally finished recording (guerrilla style), what would be their first release. On vinyl to boot. With the assistance of Fern's old Otari MX 50-50 reel to reel 8 track and Rene's knowledge of sound engineering they combine analog and digital technology to create a sound which has Valetudos live spirit but is much more deeply layered.