2012.10.26 a 28 - AMPLIFEST - Passos Manuel/Hard Club, Porto

[tyberh]

Amplifest is a about bands regarding music as one thing, and one thing only: art, human communication in its most pure state. Portuguese jam rockers Black Bombaim are the most fluent fellows speaking with their power trio instruments. With just one guitar, one bass and one drum kit, these guys are able to describe the most incredible of space trips and epic travels through a universe of drug induced wonders.
This year they released their opus Titans, with tons of special guests such as Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless), Steve Mackay (Stooges), Noel Harmonson (Comets on Fire), Adolfo Luxúria Canivbal (Mão Morta), and our usual guest and incredible guitarist Jorge Coelho, and got added to Roaburn 2013 line-up. So, yeah, we have some great treasures here in Portugal and we’re so eager to share them with you.
Here’s our first bit of Black Bombaim:

What do you expect of the Amplifest audience?
We expect a bunch of people gathered to witness one of the best alternative festivals in Europe! Fun times ahead! We’re stoked!

We like surprises, but what can we expect from your show?
Well, you can expect what we do everytime, deliver great riffs and face melting psych jams. It’s all we can do!

What band do you really want to see at Amplifest?
All of them.

What records have you been listening lately?
Goat – “World Music”; Camera – “Radiate!”

Enough about music, Amplifest is also about other arts. What have books have you been reading and what movies have you been watching lately that you want to recommend?
“Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung” by Lester Bangs. Haven’t seen a great movie lately…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... sPegRDBbog

It’s like they answered the questionnaire after snorting Redbull. They sure are full of energy – and this is just a sample of what they are actually capable of live. Just take a look above.

[Mescaline]

Não consigo parar de pensar no concerto de Amenra... Só tenho pena que não seja na Sala 2.

[tyberh]

In Portuguese it’s usual to say something like “shut the fuck up, someone’s going to sing fado,” although we don’t actually curse (not literally, at least). But there should be someone who’s not going to the the whole fado stuff who still deserves the righteous “shush” – and if we can have a word on this, we’d say it is Jozef van Wissem.
The way he plays his lute is hauntingly beautiful and amazingly without age. It can be baroque, it can be avant-garde, it can be drone and it can be folk. But there’s something it can’t be: tasteless or plain bad. And, believe me, we listened to a lot of van Wissem’s records lately, so we speak from experience. And we’ll do it again after the Dutch composer make us gaze infinity during his performance in Porto’s Sé, a historic church.
While we’re waiting for Amplifest to come, we had a quick chat with Jozef van Wissem:

What do you expect of the Amplifest audience?
Violent silence.

We like surprises, but what can we expect from your show?
A low mass.

What band do you really want to see at Amplifest?
White hills.

If you had to pick a band or a musician of this Amplifest edition to play with who would it be?
White hills, they are in a movie i am doing the soundtrack for.

What records have you been listening lately?
Arvo Part, Zola Jesus, Henning Christiaansen.

Enough about music, Amplifest is also about other arts. What have books have you been reading and what movies have you been watching lately that you want to recommend?
Books, swedenborg, meister eckhart, mechtild of magdenburg; films: melancholia, shame.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... nEMps0ws10

Talk about mysterious. Should have add that to my list of adjectives.

[AssassIIn]

Alguém de Almada/LX a dividir viagem de carro?

[Audiokollaps]

Tenho um bilhete a mais.

50 euros (preço de aquisição)

Quem estiver interessado, PM.

[nigma]

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[tyberh]

F.A.Q. e outras informações

Está quase!

[portluis]

I'm out...

[pantufa]

ta phoder! dream theater é que é bom, se calhar!

[Blunder]

I'm out...

Maricas!

Sê homem e anda abanar essa carola ao Hard Club.

[portluis]

ta phoder! dream theater é que é bom, se calhar!

Maricas!
Sê homem e anda abanar essa carola ao Hard Club.

Para o ano, com Neurosis e uma banda qualquer do Aaron Turner.

[pantufa]

Split Cranium???

[portluis]

Btw, 1º post atualizado.

[AssassIIn]

Cool!
Vemo-nos lá!

[AssassIIn]

Barn Owl ticket já cá canta!