Hi! We know it’s afternoon, but we’re going with Good Morning by Cabrita. Have a nice afternoon.
Capricorn Full Moon, June 30 – The Things That Continue at The Polymath
Capricorn Full Moon, June 30 – The Things That Continue is my new post at The Polymath site. Between the Gemini New Moon and the Capricorn Full Moon, what quietly continued? Reflections on tending what remains alive, creativity, the sea, conversation and the slow work of growing a meaningful life. You can read it at The Polymath site: https://www.thepolymathisme.com/2026/06/capricorn-full-moon-june-30-things-that.html
Downtown Boys – Yellow Sun
Hi and Happy Sunday with Yellow Sun by Downtown Boys.
The Morning Stars – Down To Earth
Good morning with Down To Earth by The Morning Stars. Have a nice weekend.
YHWH Nailgun – RCA Radioclube Agramonte, Porto, 18.06.2026.
words: António Carvalho (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Ricardo Silva
It was before a nearly full audience that the New Yorkers YHWH Nailgun returned to northern Portugal, after their debut at the Mucho Flow festival last November. Despite being dubbed by an American publication as “the last good band left in New York” (an exaggerated title, in my opinion), it’s clear from the first minute that there’s a spark of originality in their sound.
It’s difficult to define, but it seems easy to categorize it somewhere between post-punk and noise, a wide field in which some no wave bands from their city moved in the eighties. Their music is strongly anchored in Sam Pickard’s drumming, with its fast, elaborate and highly percussive rhythms (the use of rototoms helps immensely), inviting bodies to move.
Zack Borzone’s guttural voice and stage presence are other key elements, although the words he utters are difficult to understand. The sound of Saguiv Rosenstock’s highly processed guitar, achieved with a huge array of distortion pedals, is angular and dissonant, functioning almost like a second voice.
Dissonance is also present in Jack Tobias’ synthesizers, in a tone that is sometimes urgent, sometimes serene. The combination of these elements, meticulously interpreted, ever present and full of shifts and small explosions, results in something that confirms the cliché “first you find it strange, then it becomes ingrained.”
They began by playing their second album, released weeks ago, which curiously is only 11 minutes long and has 10 tracks, all around the minute mark. I even think they played it in its entirety, just like the tracks from their debut album that came after, released last year.
Zach immerses himself in his lyrics, as if exorcising inner demons, which contrasts with his angelic and contemplative pose between songs, looking at the faces in the audience. In less than an hour, they left people wanting more, as if they could deliver it and we could process it.
They have a somewhat mysterious and haunting appeal (perhaps that’s why the legendary 4AD recently signed them) and are the result of a successful experiment, such is the unique and cohesive outcome.
They’re not a band for the masses, but there will certainly be a vast minority who will want to get to know them and exchange strangeness for familiarity.
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Field Notes – Solstice Roads at The Polymath
Field Notes – Solstice Roads my new post on The Polymath site is Field Notes from a Solstice journey between Porto and Lisboa. A day of buses, trains, sea water, unexpected encounters, a lost scarf, and the quiet arrival of summer. It can be read here.
Urtiqa – Lovers & Lollypops, Porto, 18.06.2026. Photolog at Mondo’s Insta
Unfortunately we don’t have a review of Urtiqa’s – Frederica Campos and Bruna de Moura – concert at Lovers & Lollypops. We have a wonderful photolog by Ricardo Silva on our Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine/
SOAK – Death Valley Fridge Magnet
Good morning with our Middle of the Week Song – Death Valley Fridge Magnet by SOAK. Have a nice day.
I’A’V – Lovers & Lollypops, Porto, 18.06.2026.
I’A’V – Lovers & Lollypops, Porto, 18.06.2026.
words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Ricardo Silva
Everything seemed suited to the project’s sound. The atmosphere, the space, the audience, and the time of the show.
It was just after 7.45pm when I’A’V entered the venue to present one of the most original Portuguese projects I have heard in recent years.
They came to present their first work: Volatile Poem, and I want to begin with the instruments used: cello, transverse flute, samplers and voice.
The sonic world of this project, featuring Inês Malheiro, Arianna Casellas and Violeta Azevedo, brings us fresh, atmospheric, spiritual and soothing environments. They navigate calm waters of musical poetry, blended with soft colours and gentle breezes.
Very well prepared and perfectly coordinated with each other, they create a symbiosis of musicality, with richly crafted arrangements and beautifully explored silences where the music breathes and lives by itself. The vocalisations evoke the songs of sirens: calm and seductive.
At the end of the enchantment, I had the opportunity to speak with the members of the project, who shared with me that when they came together to create this work, they were aware that they were three people with different musical structures and distinct languages. It was through this fusion of experiences and life journeys that they naturally connected, creating their own identity.
Without pressure, without preconceived ideas. They allowed the music to flow naturally, and the project’s sound took shape.
A toast to symbiosis! It is from ideas and fearless experimentation that things like this emerge.
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Red Sky – Kit d’Emergenza
Hi with Kit d’Emergenza by Red Sky. Have a nice afternoon.
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