Hello to all our readers. As you have noticed lately, Music@PL.PT has not leaked any word on the past few months.... The situation shall continue this way until we release the new Music@PL.PT service. My day to day life, the lack of sponsorship and other issues has let me down slightly when thinking about promoting Portuguese and Polish music. Early this year the thought of completely closing Music@PL.PT has pumped up to my mind more than once. Luckily, after talking to both readers and artists, I've decided to stick to this site. Currently, with [...]
They have both been around for some time, on solo and with other projects. As a duo, it all started back in 2002. After the release of their debut album, Nieprzyzwoite Piosenki , in 2003, and later, in 2005, Inside Story , the couple Anita Lipnicka and John Porter released early this year their third album, Goodbye , which, according to the band, marks the end of this project. This eleven track record sees Chris Eckman taking care of production, as previously on Inside Story . The result is a journey throughout [...]
Ladies and gentlemen.... Welcome to Debiut !!!! Come closer; don't be afraid!!! And join us on this 10 track merry-go-round soundtrack . Known to be a fan of punk and good pop music, living in Denmark since his early years, 28 years old Polish born Czeslaw Mozil released this year Czeslaw Spiewa 's debut album, simply entitled Debiut ( Polish for debut ). This long play smells to Balkan breezes ( Ucieczka z Wesolego Miasteczka ), to theatrical and cinematic aromas ( closing your eyes you can find yourself easily in Amelie's [...]
Latin Playboys are two lonesome men that wander around the narrow and dark streets of Lisbon carrying with each other, alongside their guitar and double-bass, nostalgia, saudade, melancholy, a bunch of unique sounds and a whole lot more. After releasing Vol.1 and Vol.2 , and last years vinyl album Guitars from Nowhere , 2008 sees these 2 gentlemen, To' Trips and Pedro V. Goncalves, return with yet another fantastic collection of tracks, now with more elaborate and careful arrangements. Dead Combo have been called several things: from [...]
If Lucy Fell go back to the year 2004. According to the band it all started when " .....due to their ballet teachers' lack of professionalism, Helio,.., Makoto, Pedro and Rui ... decide to hang up their ballet shoes and buy musical instruments..... " Today, the choice reveals itself as the most appropriate. 5 young lads rampaging from sunny Lisbon!!! or if you prefer..... no mercy and no damn sweet talks! Just pure beautiful noise rock led by Helio Morais (out of Linda Martini), on drums; Makoto Yagyu (out of Riding Panico), on vocals; Pedro [...]
With the self-titled debut album released back in 1984, Radio Macau returned this 2008 with their brand new album Oito (8), their 9th release, (8 original albums plus a best of), during a long lasting career with almost 30 years gone by. Xana, Flak, Alexandre Cortez and Luis Filipe Valentim together with Frederico ( Fred ) Ferreira (Yellow W Van) and Ricardo Frutuoso (ex-Toranja) decided, this time, to approach music in its simplest way, leaving all the experiments behind and embracing beautiful pop melodies without any hesitation. The result is an amazing [...]
3 years after her second release, Silent Treatment , London-based Polish artist Pati Yang is back together with husband and musician Stephen Hilton on their brand new project FlyKKiLLer . The debut album gives by the name of Experiments in Violent Light and sees Pati returning in great shape to sign a highly contagious record, a fresh breeze among today's music panorama. Supposedly " ...recorded by an extra terrestrial called V who created this set (whilst in captivity in the FlyKKllr Institute in Poland) as a vessel in which to pass [...]
Before we introduce you to Rita RedShoes' debut album, here's the video for Hey Tom . About to release Golden Era , the Atomic Bees' ex-vocalist Rita Pereira and her Rita RedShoes project offer us their second single, after the successful Dream on Girl . The album, set to see the lights on the 17th of March, will feature 12 tracks. Cinematic, pop and rock music, with Feist and Fiona Apple nearby, singing magical lullabies by your side. An amazing debut.... 12 good reasons to drop by Rita RedShoes' [...]
We've introduced you to this Lodz-based quartet last year , by the time we first heard about them. This year, L.Stadt are back, now with their self-titled debut album. L.Stadt comes together with a total of 13 tracks (including an hidden track). Among these, some of the songs they got us used to ( March, Fagot Eyes, Wait, Gore and Velvet ) and a bunch of new tracks, including our favourites Loosing, Macca, Londyn and 13 (the hidden track, a very interesting experimental episode). [...]
Wojtek, Bartosz and Piotr.... father, two sons and Meska Muzyka. Wojtek Waglewski, composer, vocalist, guitarist and producer, an institution within Polish music , .....; Bartek, a.k.a. Fisz, painter, radio dj and hip-hop artist; and Piotrek "Emade" Waglewski, dj, producer and percussionist; together with guests Marcin Masecki on keyboards, Bartek "Boruta" Leczycki on harmonica and Envee on tambourine, released Meska Muzyka , a record that gathers 15 tracks with some of the most interesting music this country has seen recently. After working together on [...]
On the first 2008's Under the Radar edition we take some time with a new project that is taking over the alternative radio airwaves in Portugal, conquering more and more fans everywhere. Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940) was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher.... Walter Benjamin is also the Lisbon-based folk artist that recently saw the release of his debut full lenght album, The National Crisis , after the 2007's EP The Dog Follows the Bull . [...]
This year, I exceeded myself a bit with this Best of The Year thing. My work kept me away from my computer more than I thought so..... One month and a half later than expected, ladies and gentlemen, Portugal's 2007 Top 20 Records. Before that, I'm quite pleased to say that more than half of these bands released last 2007 their debut album. Some, as Lobster, have been around for longer, but their full-length saw the light only last year. Top 20 Portuguese Albums 20. [...]
This year, just like for the 2006 countdown, our " Best of " came a bit late. Slightly different than last year's, this counting kicks off with the Top 20 Polish albums, with the first 10 albums having a small review. These choices reflect some of the records I've listened over the past 12 months. Pop, rock, hip hop, jazz, experimental and electronic music, among others. This year there was room for all genres. Hope you enjoy my choices and let me know what you think about them. Top 20 Polish Albums [...]
After the release of 2006's album I Think We've Lost and Home on the Wall , the track for Home.Pop.Records' compilation , one of our favourite Polish bands, Zerova , are back with We All Hum Sometimes / Acoustic Apples , a 5 track acoustic EP. As the tittle says it, Zerova went acoustic this time. Letting aside all the bits and bytes they got us used to, Adrian, Pawel, Maja and Przemek created a beautiful lo-fi record, where smooth ambient textures marry with pop and dreamy backgrounds. [...]
No one ever said it should run smoothly!!! No one ever said you'd show it to your mum!!! No one ever said it'd be playing Sunday morning on church!!! No one???? Fuck no one!!!! Welcome Lobster!!! Sexually Transmitted Electricity is Guilherme Canhao and Ricardo Martins' Xmas gift for all of us. Under the mask of Lobster these two Lisbon-based lads terrorise those who dare to press the button play and step into this noise-rock crusade. Guilherme on the guitar and Ricardo on drums are the two men behind this unique and [...]
With two albums out on the streets, the 2002 Makowiecki Band and 2005's Piosenki Na Nie , Tomek Makowiecki decided to drop by this year with Ostatnie Wspolne Zdjecie , his best album up to today, and Poland's pop pearl this 2007 alongside with Kasia Nosowska 's Unisexblues . As we start working on this year's Best, we've noticed that Poland was lacking some good pop releases. Luckily, Tomek might have heard us and Ostatnie Wspolne Zdjecie arrived to our desk. Within 11 tracks, we are taken into [...]
As 2007 is coming to its end, the time for balances is coming. Music@PL.PT is collecting votes for the following cathegories on Polish and Portuguese bands/artists. Send us 10 names for each cathergory and for each country (PL and PT) if possible. Best album of the year Best track of the year Best video of the year Best new act We're counting with you all for this. Send us your votes to musicplpt[at]gmail[dot]com [...]
"… Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German political economist and sociologist who is considered one of the founders of the modern study of sociology and public administration…. He was influential in contemporary German politics, being an advisor to Germany's negotiators at the Treaty of Versailles and to the commission charged with drafting the Weimar Constitution…." This was the German Max Weber; now, it's time for the Polish Max Weber . Artur Chmarzynski on drums, Kamil Strzyzewski on guitar, [...]
I really do not know where to start with this compilation . Lost Lands, Tribute to Rospuda River Valley , was the way several Polish artists found to alert us on the drama Rospuda River Valley started facing early this year. Lying in the heart of Poland, this valley captured public attention some months ago, when several Polish youngsters and Greenpeace supporters stood still in front of several machines that were treatning to destroy this natural sanctuary. In the name of progress, or greed, local deputies and governament wished to [...]
Their self-titled debut album was Caffeine 's first and only release until they faded away into other adventures. Now, 10 years after their first steps, we see their "return" with Last Shot , an online album, gathering a total of nine tracks put together for a supposed second release that would never see the light. As before, their music continues traveling calmly on the seas of indie rock and those of baroque pop, under deep engraved melodic storms and melancholic nights. Caffeine were Pedro Falacho, on keyboards, Miguel Falcao, on [...]
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