Two mix tapes in one week? Why, you must be the luckiest children on all the Internet! This should be a busy and exciting week, as I'll be leaving in a few hours to cover the NAB Show in Vegas. If you don't know what NAB is, well, you're not alone. I didn't really know [...]

Em Fevereiro... ...os Plastica lançavam o seu quarto álbum de originais, “Lovers” (Liliput Records) de seu título; Mariza esgotava o novaiorquino Town Hall e subia ao 9º lugar da Billboard – World Music; os DOPO lançam "Blue Lands" e encerram actividade como banda; nascia a Editora do Porto , uma nova netlabel nacional; eram reeditados em CD, os discos “Ibéria” (Discossete, 1988) e “Heroes of the Wasteland” (Discossete, 1988), álbuns dos Ibéria ; Rui Horta & Micro Audio Waves estreavam “Zoetrope” em Lisboa, na Culturgest. [...]

"Como sempre, são momentos de interior diversão, criativos, são momentos de intensa exploração ambiental, de vivências. Às vezes triste, outras vezes não, sempre DOPO." ( a trompa ) Download Grátis “Blue Lands” – DOPO (Test Tube, 2009) www.myspace.com/dopodopo testtube.monocromatica.com TROMPALISTA 2009 041 - “Guitarra 663 – Tó Trips [...]

No meio de tantas e boas novidades, eis cinco, entretanto já experimentadas: Aquaparque - "É isso Aí" (Aquaboogie) - As primeiras impressões foram boas; as segundas foram ainda melhores. Pedro Magina e André Abel têm em braços uma das boas surpresas da música nacional para 2009. Excelente disco. DOPO - "Blue Lands" (Test Tube) - Já o disse há dias, "Blue Lands" é bom, " são momentos de interior diversão, criativos, são momentos de [...]
Tenho para mim, sinceramente, que cada novo disco dos DOPO deve ser seguido de forte comemoração; pela energia - interior e exterior; pelo espírito criativo; um pouco por tudo. Infelizmente, esta é também uma viagem que termina aqui. "Blue Lands" é o documento final de uma aventura sonora iniciada algures pelo ano de 2004. Mas para já, e depois de discos sempre surpreendentes como “ Last Blues, To Be Read Someday ” (Test Tube, 2005), “ For the Entrance of the Sun ” (Test Tube, Lovers & Lollypops, 2007) ou " Crossing Birds " (Foxglove, 2007), os DOPO deixam-nos com [...]

I'm not sure how many of you have been reading this page for a while, but some of you may remember last summer's "The Great Chili Cook-off That Never Was" . 368 days ago, I tried to attend the Beverly Hills Farmer's Market Chili Cook-off. I showed up too late, and lamented my misfortunate for longer than I should have considering I didn't have a job or anything to do that day anyway. Nevertheless, when I saw this past week that somebody had Google'd "Beverly Hills Farmers Market Chili Cook-off", I got to thinking that maybe it was an [...]

worry train I've come to watch birds congregate 2006 dopo crossing birds 2007 (française version) Je regarde le ciel. Bleu. Je regarde le ciel et je vois l'horizon sud. Je vois l'horizon. L'horizon et son point noir. Le point noir approche. Il grossit, je le vois. Ce [...]

Today has been quite incredible, despite "meh" weather conditions conspiring to drain the life out of this body. Last evening's Guy's Night was a rousing success. I don't use the word glorious very often (I think it's kind of a queer word), but that's the best adjective I can think of to describe the overall spirit of last night. I was really depressed yesterday about a particular personal issue, so I hatched an idea to treat Rob and Ilya to the best steaks at the fanciest steakhouse I could find, because in my opinion, there are not many [...]

Why am I so, so tired? As I write this I have just awoken from a mini-slumber. Earlier tonight I tried watching The Polar Express with Nicci to officially usher in the Christmas season, but unfortunately I could not keep my eyes open, and missed the majority of the animated holiday magic. Not only that, I decided to venture up to the garage with Ilya and others for a brief session, completely shirking my mix tape duties, so this has all been thrown together with alarming speed. Hopefully it doesn't totally suck, you'll understand my somnolence, and give [...]