Tindersticks @ Coliseu, 14/05/2022.

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words: Paulo Carmona (freely tanslated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Hiliana Silva Melo

A recital of beautiful melodies. With this small and simple sentence I could describe Tindersticks’ concert at Coliseu, in Porto.

This phenomenon is not for every band. The members of Tindersticks practically did not move on stage, except to change instruments. However, at every second it was felt in the air that they were feeling their music like no one else in the room. They put all they had as creators and musicians in every note, in every riff, in every segment – that’s a large part of whom they are.

Unbridled talent and brilliant execution of the songs, one after another.

In a set-list of more than 20 songs the band won over the audience, setting (an almost full) room on fire several times that at each performed song was already there.

They stared with Willow, A Night So Still, Medicine and She’s Gone in which the guest musicians that accompanied the core of the band, led by the charismatic Stuart Staples, appeared on stage and soon after Her, the orchestra made its entrance. On several occasions, the Coliseu stage had more than 15 musicians performing. Tindersticks are already overly melodic, but with orchestration it becomes epic. Any song could be a movie soundtrack of the highest level. A luxury.

Another Night In, City Sickness, My Sister, Johnny Guitar, My Obvlivian, Show Me, Sometimes It Hurts, Harmony and For The Beauty, among many others, were also played. We were entitled to two encores exponentially requested by the audience that didn’t stop nor got tired of standing up. It was touching. I can imagine how it was for the musicians. And there were reasons for that. Stuart Staples’ incomparable voice packs all that alternative indie rock into a slow or moderately haughty cadence.

© Hiliana Silva Melo

texto: Paulo Carmona (freely tanslated by Raquel Pinheiro); fotos: Hiliana Silva Melo

Um recital de belas melodias. E podia com esta pequena e singela frase descrever este concerto dos Tindersticks no coliseu do Porto.

Este fenómeno não é para qualquer banda. Os elementos dos Tindersticks praticamente não se movimentam em palco, a não ser para trocar de instrumentos. Todavia, a cada segundo se sentia no ar que eles estavam a sentir a sua música como ninguém mais naquela sala. Depositam em cada nota, em cada riff, em cada segmento, tudo de si enquanto criadores e músicos, e isso, é muito do que eles são. Talento desmedido e execução brilhante dos temas, um após outro.

Num set-line com mais de 20 canções, conquistaram o público, que já o estaria, a cada canção interpretada levando a sala (quase cheia) ao rubro por diversas vezes.

Começaram com Willow, A Night So Still, Medicine e She’s Gone em que surgiram em palco os elementos convidados que acompanhavam o núcleo duro da banda liderada pelo carismático Stuart Staples e logo após Her, a orquestra entra em palco. Por diversas vezes o palco do coliseu chegou a ter mais de 15 músicos a atuar. Tindersticks já é sobejamente melódico, mas com orquestração torna-se épico. Qualquer música daria para banda sonora de cinema ao mais alto nível. Um luxo.

Não faltaram Another Night In, City Sickness, My Sister, Johnny Guitar, My Obvlivian, Show Me, Sometimes It Hurts, Harmony e For The beauty entre muitas outras. Tivemos direito a 2 encores exponencialmente solicitados pelo público que não parava e não se cansava de aplaudir de pé. Chegou a ser comovente. Imagino para os músicos. E havia motivos para tal. A incomparável voz de Stuart Staples embala todo aquele indie rock alternativo em cadência lenta ou moderadamente altivo.

Isto não é para quem quer, é para quem pode. E pode porque vive a música pela música e esse amor em forma de melodia transborda para o mundo compactado em sons com que se fazem as canções.

© Hiliana Silva Melo

Miaux + Paraíso Plástico | Sereias – a weekend at Sala-Estúdio Perpétuo, 07 & 08 May 2022.

© Raquel Pinheiro

words & photos: Raquel Pinheiro

Sala Estúdio Perpétuo is a cinema and concert venue on the grounds of the former Sala Estúdio, a 1966 cinema within a building designed by architect Luiz Cunha. The weekend was divided between an indoors concert, Miaux + Paraíso Plástico and an outdoors one, Sereias.

Miaux © Raquel Pinheiro

Miaux + Paraíso Plástico

Paraíso Perdido (João Pinho) gave its debut concert Saturday evening. Electronic landscapes of a certain intensity were the defining key of Paraíso Perdido’s concert. Miaux (Sarajevo born Belgian musician Mia Prec) and her vintage Casio filled the room with melodies that ranged from a blink to the dance floor to baroque music. It was a soul filling performance with cinematic tones, quite appropriated to the beautiful cinema room where Miaux was playing.

Sereias © Raquel Pinheiro

Sereias

The following late afternoon Serieas presented their self-titled second album. As usual to anyone familiar with their live sets, Serias line-up is ever changing with a few constants and their concerts are far different, much more raw, groovy and in your face than their albums. António Pedro Ribeiro (vocals), Arianna Casellas (vocals, electronics), João Pires (drums), Tommy Luther Hughes (bass), Kaué Grindi (guitar), Nils Meisel (electronics) and Ra-Yacov (trumpet) along with Kenneth Stitt occasional improv performance appearances, lead the audience into a tribal, primeval funk.

João and Tommy are a devilish rhythm section that carries and sustains the rest of the band, much the other may lead towards the abyss, glory, or both. Live, with Sereias it is an almost non-stop dancing, a trip to another universe filled with warm grooves, sharp inflections, chaotic, yet never too far-out, out-bursts of energy. Everything always seems to be about to crumble, to be too maniac, and at times it is maniac and sharp and insane, but it always returns to a more “restrained” path.

Fitting that Adolfo Lúxuria Canibal wrote the new album presentation text. If there is a live band in which Mão Morta’s early years energy and spirit is present it is in Sereias.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26 – The Another Bag of New Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26 the Another Bag of New Songs edition airs today on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app 3-4pm (gmt+1). My bag is filled with new songs, newish songs or remixed songs. It is an upbeat edition with songs ranging from newcomer Lola Flowers to veteran Liam Gallagher. Jackie Down The Line by Fontaines D.C. is one of the dozen plus songs that will be played.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26 – The Another Bag of New Songs edition by Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio

The Another Bag of New Songs edition is Amazing Songs & Other Delights #26. It airs tomorrow on Yé Yé Radio: https://yeyeradio.com/ or on the app 3-4pm (gmt+1). My bag is filled with new songs, newish songs or remixed songs. It is an upbeat edition with songs ranging from newcomer Lola Flowers to veteran Liam Gallagher. Tracklist below.

Tracklist:
01 – !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Storm Around The World (ft. Maria Uzor)
02 – Anthony Moore – Judy Get Down
03 – Emily Jane White – Poisoned
04 – Fontaines D.C. – Jackie Down The Line
05 – Horsegirl – Billy
06 – Hot Left Pole – A Very Wise Old Man
07 – Liam Gallagher – C’mon You Know
08 – Lola Flowers – I Look So Good
09 – Matt Dorrien – Dance
10 – Maxwell Farrington & Le Superhomard – Two Hopeful Lovers x
11 – Naoise Roo – Whore (John Agnello Remix)
12 – Perspex – Ceefax & Asbestos
13 – Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Dive Deep
14 – Ryan Egan – Alone For The Last Time
15 – Sean Riley w/ The Legendary Tigerman – Good Kids
16 – Sopa de Pedra – Fonte
17 – TheBobbyLees – Dig Your Hips

all previous shows: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/stream/ | https://www.mixcloud.com/raquelpinheiro/stream/