Terebentina & Sereias two free improv, avant garde, experimental new Porto bands, played their sonic blast of smithereens, highlited in Sereias by poet/singer António Pedro Ribeiro intense poetry past Satuday at Rés-da-rua.
(photos & words Raquel Pinheiro)
ocp – operador de cabine polivalente – One man (João Ricardo), a table and some small machines, drove us on a continuous sound trip of diverse landscapes atCafé Candelabro, Porto.
Ambient, beats, a dash on noise and industrial, repetitive sound loops. Desert, bottom of the sea, the fast speed of a train in a tunnel, radio noises, pleasant grooves and outer space were some of the stations of this singular soundscape.
(photo: Hugo Brito; words: Raquel Pinheiro)
Pedro Neves Trio – Pedro Neves (piano), Miguel Ângelo (doublebass) and Miguel Sampaio (drums) -, took us on an ups and downs journey, following the story of the imaginary character created for 05:21, its most recent album. 05.21 is Summer’s dawn time. The character has reached it, still awake, after a day of bubbling thoughts and feelings. The music matches the character’s journey. Bumpy and frantic at times, Busy Mind or 05:21, quiet and serene here and there, as in the beautiful Yesterday. It all ends when the character finally falls asleep, after a tumultuous turning around before the eye lids close, the record’s final act, Time to Go. Live, as heard at Associação Porta Jazz, Porto, 05:21 gains other tones and different speeds, becoming much more raw and intense.
(photo & words: Raquel Pinheiro)
Ninety minutes of “sad” songs with a “happy melody” and “happy-sad songs” was what Terry Lee Hale in a “corner bar” called Café Candelabro in Porto. Songwriting is often at its best when it is about personal storytelling, as was often the case here. Songs such as Black Cloud or Black Forest Phone Call guided us beautiful and poignantly through the singer-songwrite’s life. Guitar and voice was all it took Hale to render an intimate, superb concert. (photo: Hugo Brito – words: Raquel Pinheiro):
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