AGENDA (updating)
Endless Sun: The Cinematic Sunrise by Portuguese Artist Hugo de Almeida Pinho addresses the material and historical realities of the structures that define part of today’s technological culture and their relationship with geological and energy imaginaries and policies. gnration, Braga - 4 October to 4 January.
Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and Norberto Lobo present PAREDES. In the year marking the centenary of his birth the two musicians come together for a series of concerts in Portugal paying homage, in their own way, to the singular composer and guitarist from Coimbra. Auditório de Espinho Academia, Espinho - 15 February 2025.
“Devendra Banhart: Offering Cloud of Scattered Genitalia” opens at Seeralves in Porto November 21st and includes drawings, watercolors and poems by the author of "Santa Maria da Feira". Serralves, Porto - from 21 November - 18 May 2025.
Mosteiro de Pombeiro
04.12.24
Mosteiro de Pombeiro - 04.12.2024.
Spent a few hours shooting the Mosteiro de Pombeiro (Monastery of Saint Mary of Pombeiro) in my hometown of Felgueiras on a grey day with no rain. The wide 13mm f 1.4 Viltrox lens mounted on my Fuji Xt4 makes these all in the frame captures possible.
This incredible building, just around the corner, was built between the 12th and 13th centuries and was once one of the most important Benedictine order monasteries in the North of Portugal, the oldest of all the religious orders in the Latin Church.
This much is known as the very first dates in the documented chronology:
1059 – Foundation of the Monastery, according to tradition;
1099 – The oldest documented reference to the Monastery;
1102 – D. Gomes Echiegues and his wife Gontroda sign a donation charter in favour of the Monastery;
1112 – The Monastery of Saint Mary of Pombeiro is bestowed with a Land Charter [place of privileges];
1199 – Date engraved in an embedded panel by the Epistle, next to the cloister’s access door. It is an inscription of a funerary character that refers to D. Gonçalo, an abbot who played an important role in the Monastery of Pombeiro, by founding something ("Qui Fundavit ..."). This epitaph may indicate the commissioning of the Romanesque factory of Pombeiro.
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A full piece on the Mosteiro de Pombeiro featuring sound samples from the Pipe Organ and interviews will be posted sometime in 2025.
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1/ best view of the Church
2/ the Altar
3/ seating area in the elevated pipe organ room
4/ the beautiful and majestic pipe organ refurbished in 2015 after 200 years of silence
Marco Fusinato – Desastres
20.11.24
Marco Fusinato is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, performance, and recording. As a musician Fusinato explores the idea of noise as music, using the electric guitar and mass amplification to improvise intricate, wide-ranging, and physically affecting frequencies. He performs regularly in the experimental music underground, primarily as a solo artist and has released many recordings on vinyl format.
First performed at the 59th Venice Biennale for 200 consecutive days, 'Desastres' is a sound performance consisting of a wall of amps paired and synchronized with the a wide wall of visuals that summon the spectator into a world of beastly drama and intriguing thoughts.
"I’m going back to exactly the same place my parents migrated from to represent the country they migrated to.
There’s a collapse of time. My parents were born before Italy was a Republic, my great-grandparents were born before Garibaldi unified Italy in 1861.
Australia, like Italy is a recent construct.
I was born on stolen land disguised as some European outpost. I’m at the end of my ancestors’ ancient culture, and simultaneously a parasite on unceded land.
Control-Option-Shift.
Force quit."
in 'Marco Fusinato and Alexie Glass-Kantor in conversation' - Marco Fusinato DESASTRES
Desastres
Daily: New Release from Godspeed You! Black Emperor
04.10.24
"NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD" - 04.10.24
"THE PLAIN TRUTH ==
we drifted through it, arguing.
every day a new war crime,
every day a flower bloom.
we sat down together and wrote it in one room,
and then sat down in a different room, recording.
NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody?
and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.
the sun setting above beds of ash
while we sat together, arguing.
the old world order barely pretended to care.
this new century will be crueler still.
war is coming.
don’t give up.
pick a side.
hang on.
love.
GY!BE"
Daily: New Release from The Bug
04.10.24
“Ice cold and dystopian.” It celebrates “atmospheric pressure, and the joy of full body assaults, via oversized sound systems in undersized club rooms.”
in 'Kevin Richard Martin aka The Bug writes about his new album Machines I-V released on Relapse.'
Machines I-V
Young God’s L’Eau Rouge turns 35
13.09.24
The Young Gods 'L'Eau Rouge' turns 35 this September. Their 2nd studio album, it is usually referred to as their masterpiece and was included in “1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” in 2005, the 1st edition of the book edited by English writer Robert Dimery, who had previously worked for magazines such as Time Out and Vogue. The book is still being updated today and the album still features. Incidentally, been wanting to write about this album's milestone, which is sometime in September (a specific day for the release of the album has never been confirmed), and just heard the news of Roli Mosimann passing aged 68. The Swiss-American producer behind this album's unique sound was a respected drummer, musician and producer who worked with The The, Celtic Frost, New Order, Faith No More, Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson, and more.
'La Fille de La Mort' is one of the highlights of the album and makes the Mix #110
"History for the music industry repeats itself first as arrogant tragedy, second as arrogant farce. Investment banking and financial services group Goldman Sachs recently published its latest Music In The Air report on the economic health and future of the music business. It is precisely the kind of thing one might expect from an investment banking and financial services group: it goes heavy on praising the plump numbers while roaring that there is plenty more money coming. It’s like a TED Talk from Gordon Gekko in a biker jacket."
in 'How the Music Industry is in a New Age of Arrogance' - 16.05.24
The Quietus
Jung, Rothko, Tanning, Duchamp: Inside the mind of Nadav Kander, one of my favourite photographers. Known for his portrait and landscape work, Kander has a meditative approach in his London studio – and a profoundly subjective take on making images.
Re-watching Brit flicks when I miss London too much. Those with a familiar urbanity, as most movies set in England with English actors actually are. This is peak Tom Hardy before all of the Hollywood fuss. It's violent to the core, often crass but it's genuine. That scene where a large group of psychiatric inmates starts dancing to the Pet Shop Boys song 'It's A Sin', is alone worth the price of the ticket. If you like Nicolas Winding Refn movies and aesthetic, make sure to check his free curated website of films, essays and more art byNWR.