Journal
Started when the first pandemic confinement hit, this is content that celebrates my past and informs a fresh vision forward. I have a fascination for experimental and challenging music and use it to inspire my creativity and many aspects of my daily drifts, so music does take center stage here. Glad if it resonates with you in some way and you discover something new here, in which case you should explore more and support the artists. Curated by Jorge Sampaio.
Band: PORTRAYAL OF GUILT
Album: We Are Always Alone (2021)
Track: Garden of Despair (04:06)
Band: RUSSIAN CIRCLES
Album: Blood Year (2019)
Track: Sinaia (07:30)
Band: OLD MAN GLOOM
Album: Seminar VIII: Light of Meaning (2020)
Track: Final Defeat (11:43)
Band: CALLIGRAM
Album: The Eye is the first Circle (2020)
Track: Anedonia (6:08)
Band: COUCH SLUT
Album: Take a chance on Rock 'n' Roll (2020)
Track: Someplace cheap (05:15)
Band: NO MEANS NO
Album: Small parts isolated and destroyed (1988)
Track: Victory (07:56)
Band: MINISTRY
Album: Filth Pig (1996)
Track: Filth Pig (06:19)
A divisive album but any album after the seminal 'Psalm 69' was always going to be a challenge unless it was Psalm 70... despite a general consensus that the album is no good, that it drags relentlesly towards some kind of sluggish sludge with abundant unstructured soundscapes, I find the album rewarding after a few listens (I mean, I got this in '96 and I still spin some tracks today) and worthy of their catalogue.
The title 'Filth Pig' was allegedly derived from a statement made in the British Houses of Parliament, in which the band's leader Al Jourgensen was described as a "filthy pig" by MP Teddy Taylor for his onstage theatrics.
The original album cover depicts a young man holding an American flag with raw meat dripping on his head and a badge on his chest that reads, "Don't blame me." This cover is a montage of Donald Trump's head on the young man's body. Fitting. Good Ridance you pig.
Band: BORIS
Album: Dear (2017)
Track: The Power (07:41)
Band: ARABROT
Album: Solar Anus (2011)
Track: Valkyrie (04:49)
Band: AMERICAN
Album: Violate and Control (2017)
Track: Bedsheet Ossuary (4:52)
Band: OLD MAN GLOOM
Album: Seminar IX: Darkness of Being (2020)
Track: Procession of the Wounded (04:05)
Band: DAUGHTERS
Album: You won't get what you want (2018)
Track: Guest House (04:29)
Band: WASTE OF SPACE ORCHESTRA
Album: Syntheosis (2019)
Track: The Shamanic vision (04:30)
Band: ALUK TODOLO
Album: Occult Rock (2012)
Track: Occult Rock I (10:13)
Band: BUTTHOLE SURFERS
Album: Piouhgd (1991)
Track: Blindman (03:40)
Band: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS
Album: From her to Eternity (1984)
Track: Saint Huck (07:23)
This is my all time Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds favorite album because it marks an era. You see, it is a very different experience when you listen to an album upon its release or say 10 years after. It doesn't even matter that I've only discovered the music of Nick Cave around '87... it was all new to me and Nick was still in that kind of mood... I am lucky to have been there for the later part of the 80's and still see most of my favorite post-punk and industrial bands live, in Porto.. Nick Cave twice, PIL, Siouxsie, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy...
'Saint Huck' really shows Blixa's influence and I am absolutely floored everytime I hear it. Its so good to see Nick still including 'From Her to Eternity' (same level of delivery) in its most recent live performances (last time at Primavera Porto 2018)