The Rhythm and Booze Project features Felipe Schrieberg and Paul Archibald, a duo fusing live music and whisky through gigs, tasting events, and multimedia experiences.

The project was born during a 2012 pilgrimage to the whisky capital of Islay, when Felipe and Paul played in bars and hotels in exchange for a meal, a bed, and healthy drams of whisky.

Regular collaborations since then, including tours in the UK, United States, and South America, led to the creation of The Rhythm and Booze Project, which combines Felipe’s and Paul’s extensive background as professional touring musicians, event producers, and passionate fans of whisky in all forms.

As a musical outfit, the band incorporates roots, folk, and blues music in a uniquely gritty mix of its own, blending hypnotic grooves with raucous energy and irresistible showmanship.

For their whisky tasting events, Felipe and Paul merge performance, live music, and multi-sensory experiences. Past projects encompass blues and whisky tasting events for Islay’s Caol Ila distillery, a tasting event series in Edinburgh that saw live music from local musicians actually alter the taste of whisky itself, and creating the world’s first bass drum made out of an entire Scotch whisky cask, a barrel from Lagavulin distillery.

With five professional degrees between them, Felipe and Paul have an academic background to match. Felipe wrote his Master’s degree thesis on sustainable distillation on Islay (conducting field interviews after Islay’s Feis Ile whisky festival), while Paul has just completed his PhD in the history of jazz drumming and the drum kit in New Orleans.

Felipe is also a leading whisky writer about all aspects of whisky. He is a senior contributor for Forbes.com amongst other publications and is on the judging panel for the 2020 World Whisky Awards.