NAZCA : SPANISH TOUR

Hey!

We just manage some last-minute gigs for the band NAZCA. They are coming directly from Chile to play in Milhões de Festa (Portuguese Festival) and then they will play 2 or 3 gigs in Spain.
So far, Zaragoça and Vitoria are confirmed. Check the dates below.
Thanks Hugo and Javier for the interest!

30 of July - La Lata de Bombillas, Zaragoça
31 of July - Ibu Hots, Vitoria

SUNFLARE TOUR

Poster of SUNFLARE's Iberic Tour, via http://chilicomcarne.blogspot.com/

Next wednesday in Barcelona with Nordkapp. Don't miss it!

PHOTOS: GALA DROP SHOW

Hey! Our friend André took some nice pictures at the Gala Drop gig.
He also has this cool flickr, check it out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andre4130/

POSTER: SUNFLARE + NORDKAPP

Hey! Once more, poster made by our friend Vasco - http://www.wdesignstudio.net/

SUNFLARE : TOUR

The Portuguese band SUNFLARE will hit the road next month. They will do a small Iberian Tour.
SUNFLARE is a sonic attack trio. Music that rises from spontaneous collective energy and heavy-fuzz blown out rock and roll. You just can't lose it!



soundcloud sunflare
SUNFLARE - young love - (cubic pyramid, 2011)

Next dates
15 July - Do outro lado do rio, Barcelos, Portugal *
16 July - Museu Abade do Baçal, Bragança, Portugal *
17 July - Bar Labranza, Bueu, Spain *
18 July - Frenopátiko Bar, Vigo, Spain *
19 July - Ibu Hots, Vitoria, Spain
20 July - Moog, Barcelona, Spain **
21 July - La Faena II, Madrid, Spain

* w/ Buogh!
** w/ Nordkapp

UPDATE: GALA DROP

There are a few updates regarding Gala Drop's show next week!

MAGINA (Not Not Fun) was added to the bill and the show starts 30min earlier, at 21h.
http://www.myspace.com/memagina

 
Pedro Magina - Sparkling Bee from apachiwu on Vimeo.

"The Animal Collective fan in me will likely always remember Lisbon as the place Panda Bear picked to record Person Pitch and to live with his wife and child. But now I can addPedro Magina and his music to my list of Lisbon-based associations. Magina's Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five tape is out now on Not Not Fun Records, and though his music is nowhere near the sunburned, tropic-tinged sounds of Person Pitch, it manages to be just as meditative and every bit as excellent. Britt of Not Not Fun was nice enough to send over "Miyagi," and its undulating synthesizers have been transporting me ever since. Fans of the spaced-out sounds of Megazord, Oneohtrix Point Never and Zonotope should enjoy it. Meanwhile, the other songs streaming at Magina's MySpace sound a bit more subdued. Regardless, these are blissfully ambient songs that shimmer and soar even as they're soused in Lisbon's coastal waters. Buy Magina's Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five tape from Not Not Fun."

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Gala Drop: Poster & Interview

Our friend Vasco made a really nice work with this handcrafted poster.
http://www.wdesignstudio.net/

Today it was posted a nice interview with Gala Drop at Clubbingspain!
Check it out here

logo

yes, we finally have a logo!

thanks a lot vasco for your great work.
by the way, check out his other works here: www.wdesignstudio.net

Gala Drop (Golfchannel) + Sunny Graves DJ (Jahbitat/Narwhal)+ Gonzo DJ (D.N.A. club) @ MOOG, Barcelona, 15th of June, 21:30h

We are very happy to announce that this June we will bring one of the best and renowned Portuguese bands to Barcelona: Gala Drop. Their show full of experimental electronics and guitars, creating amazing kraut-rock and psychadelic ambiances, will be supported by Sunny Graves (Jahbitat/Narwhal) who will present his latest creations and by Gonzo dj (D.N.A. club). The night will prepare you well for Sonár, which kicks off the day after.

The show will be in Moog and tickets will be just 6 euros.

Check out the info about Gala Drop, a band that made it into the Resident Advisor recommended list, the reference website for electronic music, with their last EP Overcoat Heat. Philip Sherburne introduced them as follows:

"Gala Drop are a four-piece from Lisbon, Portugal; after their self-titled, double-vinyl debut last year, they make their first appearance on New York's Golf Channel Recordings. Panda Bear recently invited them to open for him there, which isn't surprising; their music is imbued with the same psychedelic sensibility that you might find in Animal Collective, El Guincho, Delorean, John Talabot, Four Tet, or even James Holden."

To get a taste of it, here is a video for a song of their latest EP Overcoat Heat, Drop:

DROP (from Gala Drop) from Antonio Contador on Vimeo.

Read some reviews/blog posts and grab some mp3s here:
Myspace Gala Drop
Resident Advisor
Altered Zones
Gorilla vs. Bear

Also listen to some of Sunny Graves' music here: 
Myspace Sunnygraves

Tyvek @ Mercado Negro, Aveiro, 24th of February of 2011

We are really excited to book one more show for Tyvek, this time in Portugal. The show will take at Mercado Negro, in Aveiro. The tickets will be just 4 euros and the local band The Underdogs will open the show.
The Underdogs are and excelent rock-n-roll band thats breeds blues and soul. Check their myspace here: http://www.myspace.com/theunderdogsworld

Venue Mercado Negro: http://www.myspace.com/mercadonegro_aveiro

More details soon!

Tyvek @ La [2] de Apolo, Barcelona, 19th of February 2011

We are really glad to announce to be booking a gig for Detroit city’s garage punk rockers Tyvek in Barcelona. 

With a handful of releases on such essential labels as Siltbreeze, What’s your rupture? and Sub Pop, Tyvek have now made their way to the most crucial rock n roll label in existence, In the Red Records, with their latest outing “Nothing fits”. A record that might get them the recognition they so well deserve and make their studio music closer to their widely renowned savage live shows, whose reputation is well established in America and within the very selected crowds in Europe who were lucky to witness them in 2009.

The Tyvek show will be part of the Nitsa Club night in which also will perform the Catalan rock 'n roll band Els Surfing Sirles. Their latest record was called "LP" and they just released a split EP with Mujeres called "Eix Transversal" (both released by Bankrobber).

Myspace:
Tyvek
Els Surfing Sirles

Check out the pitchfork reviews for Tyvek's records:
Tyvek - Tyvek [Siltbreeze, 2009]
Tyvek - Nothing Fits [In The Red, 2010]

Last record's opening song:

Dreams @ Miscelanea, Barcelona, 4th of february 2011

For the second Sidewalk show, the Portuguese duo Dreams will visit Barcelona for the first time next February! Dreams will perform their psychedelic pop show in Miscelanea, a nice small venue in Raval. Come and see the show on the 4th of February 2011 at 21h in Miscelanea for only 4 euros!

Check out Dreams at the Pitchfork forkcast here

Quoting Rough Trade, "It's a pulsating sound with a mutant house backbeat and layered harmonies draped all over. if Washed Out had been tie-dyed in a Porto beach house and then left on the beach while the kids went swimming it'd sound like this."

Download their first EP First Steps at: http://dreamsdontloveyou.bandcamp.com/

Review Toro Y Moi Show + Photos

Toro y Moi, soñando en la pista

El proyecto pop de culto de Chad Bundick sorprendió con un sonido rotundo

Viernes, 22 de octubre del 2010

El Periodico
JUAN MANUEL FREIRE
BARCELONA

A los críticos se les critica más o menos todo, pero sobre todo el uso de etiquetas. Al crítico escocés David Keenan le han caído collejas por inventarse el «pop hipnagógico», pero el término es ideal para ese pop ensoñador y mareante, de fondo cíclico y textura inasible, emergido de los sótanos de Estados Unidos para convertirse en banda sonora de viajes en metro por todo el mundo. Uno de sus nombres clave, Toro y Moi, de Columbia, aireó su repertorio la noche del pasado miércoles en BeCool, ante un público bastante más numeroso del que cabía esperar, sobre todo con partido del Barça por medio.

Suave, flotante e hipnótica, la música de Chad Bundick es ideal para bailar en horizontal, bailar con la mente y, según el tema, hasta coger el sueño. Un dormitorio a las mil parece su escenario natural. Pero allí estaba el surcarolino, dispuesto a compensar con conciertos lo que no gana vendiendo discos, como le ha tocado a la mayoría de músicos de la era post-Napster.

POCO 'HIPNAGÓGICO' /Sale bien parado del reto: en lugar de cantar sobre pregrabados, que sería el plan sencillo, se acompaña de bajista y batería para hacer un directo realmente orgánico y directo, poco hipnagógico (se impone la línea clara) pero eficaz. Quienes oyeran con atención ya lo sabrían, pero este nuevo acercamiento, más desnudo, subraya el gran nivel de Chad Bundick como compositor pop.

Las canciones (grandes Minors o el hit de muchos quilates Low shoulder) pierden capas, pero nunca pierden pegada. El chico promete.

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Also some photos of the gig taken by Santiago Periel of Noizemakesenemies

 

20/10/2010: Toro Y Moi, Sala BeCool, Barcelona