Mirrored Lips © Renato Cruz Santos |
Decibélicas © Rafael Farias |
DECIBÉLICAS
- This new Braga’s group gave a promising concert on palco Taina.
Following what I mentioned earlier about Mirrored Lips, the Decibélicas are
also practically in the same musical championship as the Russians. Punk of
chaotic-jazzistic noise and an anarchic and rather intense performance. The
only difference being that their themes are more of a glaring and distressing
clipping about realities television commercials, vaginas and the capitalist
consumer society and its related problems, through a delightful adolescent perspective
The group gave clear indications that there was still a good margin of progress
to be made, but already had something that seemed honest and intense. The the
band’s punk riot grrl is honest for being primitive and still poorly executed,
but it has everything good that sooner or later, be it the collective's desire,
will come to shine brightly. To conclude, I'll say that I prefer ten thousand
times more debuging bands like Decibélica than hundreds of other very musically
accurate punk-rock bands, but which sound is almost always the same and
uninteresting. Lovers & Lollypops chose well when it come to young promises
for palco Taína.
Sereias © Rafael Farias |
Circle © Marcelo Baptista |
CIRCLE
– These Finns, a cult band in their country, who performed on palco Miçhões,
offered the audience a very pleasant and solid concert. Pleasant in the sense that
they are undoubtedly excellent musicians, playing much of their repertoire,
which is heavy - set in hard /heavy metal latitudes, with a tendency towards
progressive/psychedelic and equivalent solos, but also with incursions into
folk music and krautrock - can play loud and with superiority without hurting the
audience’s eardrums. In this regard they are exemplary and therefore very good
as a fusion band. The Circle, are also much to their singer and keyboard player,
Mika Rättö, an empathetic band that, within its typology one can easily like.
Because the ban has a little bit of everything from powerful riffs to sensitive
themes, somewhat troubadour like, with a very good balance between voice,
instruments and silence. During the show, and at the end of one of the themes played,
Mika Rättö offered the public one of the most surreal and fun moments of the
night, speaking slowly and calmly in Finnish (obviously to tell something), but
enough for the national audience to if the man thought he was going playing in
his native country. Something like "speak Finnish, or die". They’re friendly
guys, very capable of giving decent and quality concerts, with a little bit of
everything to be enjoyed. Smart devils.
Warmduscher © Marcelo Baptista |
WARMDUSCHER
– Within my musical taste, they gave one of the best concerts I've seen so far in
Milhões. British, or at least referenced as such, they are a very recent band,
started in 2015 that already has two recordings, the las tone, called Whale
City, released late June, served as a motto for an expedition to Milhões’
natives. It is a very solid band solid live and fun enough, almost only because
their singer (Clams Baker Jr.), a lovely figurine, like the Legendary Stardust
Cowboy, but with less class, owner of good voice, street preacher type, a mix of
a pot bellyed sequined cowboy with the face of weirdo moron. As a band mate he
has a brilliant guitarist in the economical form he uses the strictly necessary
on an electric guitar ... called Adam J. Harmer and ... bollocks, the man dresses
well, very well. Elegantly, like a sloppy prince in an impeccable suit, as all
rock guitarists should wear and do not. In his way, he is the last of the
Mohicans, therefore precious. The bass player and the drummer are seemingly
simple boys. Warmduscher are a rock band, then of many other rocks (read sub-genres).
They perform songs that resemble Iggy Pop's Lust for Life period (the themes
lost on the B side, almost by the end, with female backing vocals), as they throw
themselves into other registers, some more danceable and rhythmic Motown like,
and others that are a pure demonic and nervous rock'n'roll exercise ... that
always turn out well. The singer was exuberant and pleased with the concert's
progress by the audience on palco Lovers, that showed clear signs of great
pleasure ... and always thanked between songs. The concert wasn’t fully fulfiling
because it could have been longer, but maybe that was the right recipe to have
been very good. Not much, right and on point. Come back shortly to Portugal.
Squarepusher © Rafael Farias |
SQUAREPUSHER
– Briton Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher) played on palco Milhões with all the
scenic equipment that is the brand image of his live performances. His music is
a happy combination of a lights game and images that evolve to the rhythm of
the intensities and speeds of his themes. The artist's music is essentially a very
well crafted and clever drum & bass, There is a feature in it that lies in
the enormous complexity of rhythmic variations, which are usually at mind-boggling
and intricate speeds, but which allow us to interpret his music in a jazzy way.
Another detail of his style is to be able to let it be seen (by virtue of the
repetition of its stylistic model) an almost analogue reading of something that
is digital in nature. In that regard, I will say that he has the gift of
humanizing a completely digital language. The audience effusively displayed appreciation
for the show at the end and Squarepusher thanked it with several bows. It was a
great concert.
Words: Guilherme
Lucas (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Marcelo
Baptista, Rafael Farias, Renato Cruz Santos.
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