Arquivismo de concertos, pt. 2 - os portugueses mais vistos

Prosseguindo no que ontem foi aqui apresentado, eis...

OS PORTUGUESES MAIS VISTOS

1º Mão Morta - 44 vezes
2º Bypass - 18 vezes
3º Hipnótica e Pop Dell'Arte - 15 vezes
5º Anonima Nuvolari (*), Gaiteiros de Lisboa e Gatos do Telhado (**) - 11 vezes
8º Loosers e Caveira (***) - 10 vezes
10º More República Masónica - 9 vezes
11º Mécanosphère (****), Wraygunn e The Legendary Tiger Man (*****) - 7 vezes
14º Cool Hipnoise, D3Ö, Da Weasel, Dead Combo, Gala Drop, Oquestrada, Tina and The Top Ten e Vicious Five - 6 vezes

(*) Ok, eles são italianos, mas vivem e trabalham cá...
(**) Eram uma banda dos tempos do liceu
(***) Incluindo uma data de suporte a Damo Suzuki
(****) A mesma justificação dos Nuvolari
(*****) Incluindo uma actuação a meias com a Rita Redshoes

Hoje à noite, na Zê

PSYCHIC ILLS "Another Day Another Night" (videoclip)

Já passaram ontem pelo Porto e hoje é a vez do aquário da ZDB, onde estarão também os "nossos" Caveira. Alguém pediu My Bloody Valentine, Jesus & Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized? A partir das 23h, com entradas a €8 para não-sócios.

A casa

A casa ainda tem pouca gente. Numa das paredes do hall de entrada, está pendurado o horário das actuações. À esquerda, o P. e o A. vendem discos. Na divisão imediatamente a seguir, alguém toca. É aí, nesse quarto escuro, que se concentram as primeiras visitas. O bar fica na cozinha e a cozinha ainda fica longe, a meio do interminável corredor. Pelo caminho há mais dois ou três quartos, com papéis pendurados nas ombreiras das portas, avisando quem ali vai actuar. Na cozinha, o Z. está a passar Holger Czukay. A cerveja é quente. Ao longo da outra metade do corredor há ainda mais quartos, uns vazios, outros ocupados ora de instrumentos e amplificadores, ora de casais de namorados. À medida que o tempo avança, as pessoas vão chegando. Os Gala Drop do T. e do N., aos quais se junta o baterista A., dão um belo concerto. Os Frango tocam ao mesmo tempo, no outro lado da casa. Entretanto, a casa está cheia. As garrafas de cerveja estendem-se encostadas às paredes, tal como as pessoas. O Kyp Malone anda por aqui, sempre com os dedos a tapar os ouvidos. O techno improvisado dos One Might Add é hipnotizante. A cerveja continua quente. A casa está cheia de miúdas bonitas. A única casa de banho em funcionamento tem uma fila desesperante. A casa ainda tem um pátio enorme. Melhor, a casa também funciona na fracção do lado esquerdo. É aí que tocam os Calhau! com o António Contador. É aí que os CAVEIRA e nós quase vamos parar ao andar de baixo. Que bela casa esta. E que noite...

Sexta, 13... 13 concertos na Avenida

Nesta próxima sexta-feira, o primeiro andar do 211 da Avenida da Liberdade vai servir de palco para uma maratona de concertos e jam sessions entre a malta da improvisação e do rock mais marado de Lisboa, Barreiro e arredores. Vai também haver uma banca com discaria e afins da Flur, da Searching Records, da Creative Sources, da Headlights, da Rafflesia, da Ruby Red e ainda edições de autor e material em segunda mão. A sessão começa às 21h30 e a entrada custa €5. Eis o programa:

CAVEIRA
Tropa Macaca
Manuel Mota + Margarida Garcia
David Maranha
Pedro Boavida + André Gonçalves
Gala Drop
António Contador + Calhau!
One Might Add
Stellar (Países Baixos)
Riff Drivel (Países Baixos)
Ernesto Rodrigues + Guilherme Rodrigues + Carlos Santos
Alfredo Costa Monteiro
Frango

Wolf Eyes no Out.Fest do Barreiro

Em Junho, há mais um out.fest no Barreiro, com um cartaz bastante apelativo. Ora veja-se:

16 de Junho - Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita (AMAC)
Variable Geometry Orchestra (VGO)
Tsuki

17 de Junho - AMAC
Wolf Eyes
Orthodox
Tropa Macaca

22 de Junho - AMAC
Samara Lubelski
Curia
Aki Onda
Manuel Gião

23 de Junho – Avenida da Praia
Caveira
Josué O Salvador

Hoje, Ghost!

Psicadelias várias com os japoneses Ghost, numa noite que terá a primeira parte dos CAVEIRA. Lux, 10 euros.

Coisas que não deviam acontecer, pt. III

Rita Vozone abandona CAVEIRA (in myspace/caveiracaveira).

Classe de 2006 - os concertos

Os clientes do tasco foram convidados a deixarem as suas preferências de 2006. Este é o resultado da votação para os melhores concertos de 2006. Obrigado a todos.



1. lisa germano @ santiago alquimista
2. kode9 & spaceape @ musicbox
3. liars @ clube lua
4. comets on fire @ zdb
5. damo suzuki + caveira @ zdb
6. kanye west @ cool jazz fest
7. cordel do fogo encantado @ fmm sines
8. yo la tengo @ aula magna
9. heavy trash @ tagv
10. tom zé @ culturgest

Os meus concertos de 2006 (#1 - #10)

1. 4 mai - tom zé @ culturgest
2. 28 jul - trilok gurtu & the misra brothers @ sines
3. 20 jan - damo suzuki network damo suzuki + caveira) @ zdb
4. 29 jul - cordel do fogo encantado @ sines
5. 2 dez - lisa germano @ santiago alquimista

6. 21 jan - estilhaços adolfo luxúria canibal + antónio rafael) @ zdb
7. 13 out - comets on fire @ zdb
8. 28 jun - think of one @ teatro variedades
9. 27 jul - gaiteiros de lisboa @ sines
10. 18 fev - pop dell'arte @ zdb

Hoje e amanhã

Hoje é dia dos lisboetas poderem assistir ao stoner rock marado dos Comets on Fire, na ZDB. E com primeira parte de CAVEIRA! Amanhã será a vez do Porto (Porto Rio), exactamente com o mesmo cartaz. IMPERDÍVEL!

2xCAVEIRA

Diz o Bodyspace:
«(...)em Outubro [os CAVEIRA] editam dois novos discos em simultâneo (...). Cena Espírita (ed. autor) e Quebranto (Rafflesia) serão lançados nos concertos que a banda vai dar com os Comets On Fire. O primeiro foi gravado no início do último trimestre de 2005 nos Golden Pony Studios, enquanto Quebranto é o registo do concerto do trio lisboeta na Fonoteca Municipal de Lisboa, no âmbito do Festival SonicScope, em Junho deste ano. Ambos terão tiragens de 250 CD-R.»

Entrevista com Damo Suzuki

Quando Damo Suzuki veio a Lisboa há dois anos atrás, aproveitei a ocasião para o entrevistar. O que se segue foi publicado na edição de Novembro de 2004 da revista Número Magazine, assim como está, em inglês.
É favor não esquecer que Damo está de volta a Portugal neste fim-de-semana: sexta-feira, com os CAVEIRA, na ZDB, e, no sábado, com os Soopa, nos Maus Hábitos.

DAMO SUZUKI
Turning European, I think I'm turning European, I really think so

Damo Suzuki, Japanese-Born, 54, pop industry phobic, has been doing this for seven years or so. That is, touring every underground venue in the world, improvising with local musicians, communicating through music. The Damo Suzuki Network, as it is called, is growing larger every time. Last June, when the ex-Can singer played in Oporto and Lisbon, he joined musicians -- or "sound carriers", as he likes to put it -- like Nuno Rebelo, Marco Franco, Scott Nydegger (Mécanosphère), Massimo Pupilo (Zu) or people from Sooba, the experimental act from Oporto. He didn't know them before, as it happens most of the time, one fact that pushes the freedom frontiers in terms of improvisation and "instant composing", a term that Damo likes to underline in his unique concept for music. Did it work? Oh hell, it really did.

You ran away from your folk's house by the time you were 16.
It was quite necessary to get out from Japan. Japan lost the II World War and so they had many things to develop. I was very curious about other countries, as I was quite good with geography. If you'd live in Ireland or England or Japan, you would have this sentiment to see other countries. It's different from here. Well, ok, Portuguese people were quite a sentimental people, with Vasco da Gama, but it was different. And today you have information. You don't have to travel anywhere.

Then you went to Moscow.
Yes, but before I were in America and Asia. First time I came to Europe was 1968. Since then I've been living in Europe. It's quite important for me.

Did you ever get back to Japan and stayed for, like, more than a week?
I did, but not more than one month.

You feel more like Japanese or European?
I don't like to have any kind of responsibilities and if you are connected to one nation, you feel some kind of responsibilities, like elections and so on. But I don't have that kind of feeling because no country in the world is good enough for me [laughter]. Maybe I'm being quite arrogant [laughter]. I think is much better not to have any kind of nationality.

Still, have you found something you could call home, in Germany?
No, it's not home. I have three kids, so that's where I have to stay, as a responsibility of a father, but that's not too much important, because "home" is some kind of answer I'm still looking for and maybe I cannot find it. "Home" for me is not a geographical place. It has to do much more with spiritual things.

And then, Damo met Can. Could you describe what happened that day you met Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit from Can?
It was 1970, April or May. I used to work in a musical play, in Munich. I was there only to get money to get back home.

That play was Broadway's "Hairs", right?
Yeah, I did it for three months. I was singing, and dancing and doing that sort of stuff. But it wasn't a pleasant job. I did it only for the money, because it was really very boring everyday. And one day -- I was used to make street music -- I was doing this happening and the members of Can were there, sitting at a café and watching me. They came up to tell me that they had no singer and that they had a concert that night and asked me if I could join them. I had nothing to do, so "ok, I can join you". It was fun, because, apart from doing music in the streets, I never thought on making music as my life.

What happened that night can somehow be related to what you do nowadays? I mean, you go to a venue, you don't know the people you're going to play with...
Today [this interview was set before the Lisbon's gig], I don't know two of them. Well, I met them at the sound-check... But it's ok, it's our communication.

How does it work? How do you set these lineups? Do you choose the people you're going to work with?
Most of the time, I don't choose them. Sometimes it's the venue that asks people to come and play. Others, like when I'm playing in small villages, where there aren't musicians who can improvise, I ask some people. I have a list of the "sound carriers" -- I call them "sound carriers" because it's better than the word "musicians". They don't have to follow theory or systems in music. We are free when we make sound at the moment.

Don't you fear not having that kind of communication happening one night?
No, it's being good every time, in a way. Just different. For instance, in Portugal I'm playing much more with experimental or free-jazz musicians, but if I play in England, I'll have much more rock music. So, it's different every time. And that's why I'm not tired. If you are doing the same kind of music everyday, with the same people, it's stressant... It's like getting a regular job. I don't like that. Our concerts are freedom. You can make much more creative things.

And how is it when you get to play this way with ex-Can members? Is it different?
It's not different, but it's like a football game. If you already played with someone, you know how he moves. So, it's much easier. But I don't like to take that easy work all the time. I like to do adventures in my life. It's really nice enter into adventure when you don't have a concept. Every moment you create is something. If you're playing composed old stuff, you cannot find this. And also the mistakes: here it is not a mistake, you can get another way to create; in composed music, a mistake is a mistake. Human being is not perfect. Everybody does mistakes. And it's important you accept other people that also make mistakes.

How do people react to your concerts?
Place to place it is very different. In some country, people are watching a little bit distant from us. In other, people are dancing all the way from the beginning. But I cannot say "this place is good" or "this place is bad". Actually, everywhere it's good.

When you left Can, you also took departure from music...
Eleven years. I didn't make any music in these eleven years. I was enjoying family and I really don't like pop culture. We were getting quite famous in Germany and also in England. That time, I met a German girl and we married. For me, family was, suddenly, much more important than music itself. I was quite fed up of music. Last Can recording I did was "Future Days" and it was for me the best LP. It was easy for me to get out of music because I thought I couldn't do better than that. So why should I continue?

In this Can book that was released two or three years ago, the late Michael Karoli says "It's beyond doubt that Damo became more professional the longer we worked with him. When he left us after 'Future Days' he was just at the point where he could have become an amazing fantastic singer."
[Laughter] I didn't know this. This is really good. He's isn't any more here and it's really nice to remember him.

And what made you turn again to music?
Oh, that was a really horrible story. I had a cancer. I was Jehovah's Witness that time and I made every operation without blood transfusions. In the first operation, chances to survive were 30% with blood from other people. I did it without. I survived but three days later it went wrong and then the doctor said he could only give 15% of possibility to live. "With or without blood transfusion, it doesn't matter; you don't have so many chances to live." It was a really hard situation, but I survived, without the blood transfusion. Since then -- anything like 18 years ago or so -- I've been feeling so good. I even had the feeling that I like to injury myself [ed: then I got why he ripped those filters off his cigarettes] and do the things that I really want to do, so that's why I came back to music. And besides that I like to help people telling them the way I survived this bad situation. If I can share my energy with the people, then it is really good. For me, music has always been communication. If we are in one room together with the audience, the audience doesn't know a thing, as well as the musician, as it is going to happen tonight. We are on the same stage. We are living the time together. So, it's quite important for me to be making music again. And I like to reach more than music, especially now, with all these materialisms. I'd like to change it a little bit. It's called the "Never Ending Tour". It's not only me. I'd like to continue this forever, but the day I go under the ground, perhaps there'll be new people that can take this on. Now, in the 21st century, we have so much information... For instance, when I was 13, I hadn't so much information like my kid. They have to change the next world in a better way. But we can make some kind of stone -- like when building a house -- and then generation after generation can change it. With music, I think is quite possible, but only if you do improvised music, because music is not communicated though industry. On another kind of music, the system is already there to get success, to become popular, to look good or any other thing.

Do you listen to music at home?
I do. Mostly, classical music. From today I listen only to my music. I record every concert, so there's enough material. I listen only to live recordings.

Damo Suzuki também no Porto

Um dia depois de tocar com os CAVEIRA, em Lisboa (ZDB, sexta-feira), Damo Suzuki vai ao Porto, ao Maus Hábitos, para se reunir uma vez mais em palco com o colectivo Soopa.

As listas da gerência (CONCERTOS)

Os 100 concertos do ano:

1. 12 abr - EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN @ ccb

2. 30 jul - KTU @ fmm sines

3. 20 out - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE @ cacilhas, antigo clube naval

4. 11 jul - SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS @ santiago alquimista

5. 29 jul - MARC RIBOT & THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS @ fmm sines

6. 27 jul - POP DELL'ARTE @ forum lisboa

7. 28 jul - AMADOU & MARIAM @ fmm sines

8. 22 jul - ALI FARKA TOURÉ (& TOUMANI DIABATÉ) @ anf. keil do amaral

9. 21 jul - CAVEIRA @ zdb

10. 7 out - DURAN DURAN DURAN @ zdb

11. 24 jun - wolf eyes @ zdb
12. 4 jun - giant sand @ santiago alquimista
13. 29 mai - stooges @ sbsr
14. 25 dez - the legendary tigerman @ lisboa, zdb
15. 26 set - (smog) @ clube lua
16. 23 jun - hurtmold @ zdb
17. 7 dez - the hospitals @ lisboa, zdb
18. 3 fev - panda bear @ zdb
19. 5 fev - loosers @ padaria
20. 26 mar - james blackshaw @ zdb
21. 22 out - carlos bica @ lisboa, zdb
22. 6 nov - young gods @ lisboa, aula magna
23. 12 nov - caveira @ lisboa, aula magna
24. 17 fev - destroyer @ zdb
25. 30 mai - hood @ zdb
26. 28 ago - mogwai @ lisboa soundz
27. 15 dez - mécanosphère @ lisboa, institut franco-portugais
28. 12 mai - gang gang dance @ zdb
29. 9 abr - skatalites @ algés
30. 22 abr - six organs of admittance @ pátio do p.
31. 16 dez - anonima nuvolari @ lisboa, zdb
32. 5 mai - matt elliott @ zdb
33. 11 jun - nora keyes @ zdb
34. 2 jul - bypass @ zdb
35. 24 nov - the toasters @ lisboa, mercado da ribeira
36. 3 dez - caveira @ barreiro, ferroviários
37. 10 nov - meira asher @ lisboa, zdb
38. 3 nov - final fantasy @ lisboa, zdb
39. 9 abr - max romeo @ algés
40. 27 jan - dead combo (pt) @ zdb
41. 30 jul - master musicians of jajouka @ fmm sines
42. 17 mar - julie doiron @ zdb
43. 21 jan - ginferno @ zdb
44. 18 nov - samara lubelski @ lisboa, zdb
45. 18 nov - p.g. six @ lisboa, zdb
46. 23 mar - mão morta @ aula magna
47. 6 out - jane @ zdb
48. 19 mar - mão morta @ sines
49. 15 fev - dead combo @ bicaense
50. 30 jul - konono no.1 @ fmm sines
51. 10 set - vicious five @ mercado
52. 25 mar - james blackshaw @ famalicão, casa das artes
53. 28 jul - mahala rai banda @ fmm sines
54. 7 mai - bypass @ santiago alquimista
55. 12 mai - loosers @ zdb
56. 2 dez - the legendary tiger man @ lisboa, mercado
57. 29 jul - ba cissoko @ fmm sines
58. 27 mai - damon & naomi @ zdb
59. 11 jun - a hawk and a hacksaw @ zdb
60. 29 jul - astrid hadad @ fmm sines
61. 6 fev - jeffrey lewis @ zdb
62. 30 jul - samurai 4 @ fmm sines
63. 17 mar - berg sans nipple @ zdb
64. 30 set - vicious five @ zdb
65. 3 dez - lobster @ barreiro, ferroviários
66. 5 mai - many fingers @ zdb
67. 29 mai - bunnyranch @ sbsr
68. 29 mai - wray gunn @ sbsr
69. 26 nov - jackson and his computer band @ lisboa, sabotage
70. 26 mar - josephine foster @ zdb
71. 29 jul - hermeto pascoal @ fmm sines
72. 17 fev - frog eyes @ zdb
73. 12 mar - ty & dj bizznizz @ mercado
74. 6 out - evil moisture @ zdb
75. 10 fev - fish & sheep @ zdb
76. 12 nov - devendra banhart's hairy fairy @ lisboa, aula magna
77. 10 mar - hipnótica @ zdb
78. 10 mar - loosers @ lisboa bar
79. 7 out - candie hank @ zdb
80. 17 fev - hipnótica @ f*** chiado
81. 24 nov - westbound train @ lisboa, mercado da ribeira
82. 26 nov - who made who @ lisboa, sabotage
83. 13 abr - tuxedomoon @ forum lx
84. 23 jun - m. takara @ zdb
85. 22 jul - mabulu @ anfiteatro keil do amaral
86. 19 ago - dazkarieh @ sines
87. 28 ago - bunnyranch @ lisboa soundz
88. 8 dez - mojo hand @ lisboa, catacumbas
89. 7 out - ciné-mix @ zdb
90. 26 nov - camarão @ lisboa, lounge
91. 28 jul - segue-me à capela + brigada victor jara @ fmm sines
92. 14 jul - dêsso blues gang @ catacumbas
93. 25 mar - josephine foster @ famalicão, casa das artes
94. 22 nov - barbez @ lisboa, zdb
95. 3 jun - matt valentine & erika elder @ zdb
96. 10 fev - we shall say only the leaves @ zdb
97. 28 jul - ljiljiana buttler & mostar sevdah reunion @ fmm sines
98. 1 jul - martin rev @ zdb
99. 2 jul - ölga @ zdb
100. 14 jul - quinteto tati @ zdb

Damo CAVEIRA Suzuki

A "neverending tour" do japonês Damo Suzuki vai voltar a passar por Portugal, e em concreto pela ZDB, já no dia 21 de Janeiro. Desta vez, os "sound carriers" -- assim chama Damo aos músicos locais que o acompanham nas suas improvisações por cada ponto do planeta em que toca -- vão ser os CAVEIRA. É uma ocasião imperdível.
(Também há data marcada para o Porto, no dia a seguir; os sound carriers serão outros, eventualmente.)

ACTUALIZAÇÃO: a data para os CAVEIRA e Damo Suzuki é 20 de Janeiro. Dia 21, é a vez do projecto Estilhaços, de Adolfo Luxúria Canibal.

E, enquanto não vemos os Lightning Bolt por cá, o que é que fazemos?

Resposta: sempre podemos aproveitar alguma oportunidade que exista para ver os portugueses Lobster. Foram a melhor surpresa do passado sábado, no encerramento do Out.Fest, onde também aconteceu mais um excelente concerto dos CAVEIRA. Quem não foi pode sempre ouvir algo do que perdeu no álbum que os Lobster recentemente lançaram pela netlabel Merzbau. É só descarregar. Farewell Chewbacca!

...um dia a caixa vem abaixo

É a primeira organização da Conta-Gotas (Luís Bento e Rita Costa) e vai levar à Caixa Económica Operária, um espaço que diz muito para estas bandas, algumas das melhores propostas actuais do rock feito em Portugal. Acontece no último fim-de-semana de Janeiro e conta com o seguinte cartaz:

27 Janeiro (sexta-feira)
BYPASS
ÖLGA
LEMUR

28 Janeiro (sábado)
LOOSERS
LINDA MARTINI
CAVEIRA

Os bilhetes custam 8 euros para um dia e 12,5 para os dois.

Algumas breves

1. Os CAVEIRA são os maiores. O Devendra desiludiu-me, ainda que tenha salvo o barco de encalhar, à medida que o concerto foi-se aproximando do fim. Hey you friggin' Devendra nu-hipster fans, don't shoot me!

2. Por falar em CAVEIRA, o trio vai estar no Out.Fest, um festival organizado pela malta do Barreiro aka malta do projecto Frango. O cartaz segue dentro de momentos.

3. No ano em que houve possivelmente a melhor organização (nada de registar a nível de cancelamentos de última hora e concertos a começarem mais ou menos a horas), o Número registou a mais fraca afluência de sempre (e talvez mesmo o pior cartaz musical). É pena. Há seis anos, muitos de nós imaginávamos que a ambição projectada para este evento o iria consolidar, a médio prazo, como um festival de referência, aproximando-o de uma inevitável comparação com o Sonar de Barcelona, no que diz respeito, pelo menos, à música.

4. O Luís Bandeira, da Naked, fez-me o favor de avisar que os irlandeses God is an Astronaut -- falava-se do disco deles aqui, há alguns dias -- vão estar no Santiago Alquimista, a 13 de Janeiro, com os portugueses Linda Martini. Por falar nestes últimos, o Lounge, no Cais do Sodré, vai recebê-los já esta próxima sexta-feira.

5. O Sons em Trânsito, programa imperdível de músicas do mundo que vai acontecer por uma série de cidades do Norte do país a partir de 23 de Novembro, já tem site oficial: www.set.com.pt

A primeira parte do Devendra...

...vai ter CAVEIRA!