October 01, 2022 – Casa das Virtudes, Faro
La Chanson Noire was born in 2007, a project by Carlos Monteiro a.k.a.Charles Sangnoir. Breaking the sound we are used to in the Portuguese music scene, La Chanson Noire shows us the darkest side of Portuguese Popular Music, combining songs sung in Portuguese, English or French, with traditional Portuguese sounds and bolder remixes. The musical influence of irreverent Portuguese names, such as António Variações, Jorge Palma or Mão Morta combines with traces of Anglo-Saxon Gothic and a varied range of sound, to create unusual and black music, with unusual lyrics and, That’s right, very interesting.
Dr. Frankenstein, a Portuguese surf rock band, formed in 1994. The band’s name came about “because of their love for B-movies and American trash culture”. They have their musical roots in the rock n’roll of The Cramps, the early R&B years of The Rolling Stones and the Rough Rockin’ Instrumentals of the late 50’s/60’s. They already have an EP and five albums on their CV.
Spiritual Front are a neofolk band from Rome. Band members describe their music as “nihilistic suicidal pop”, with elements of neoclassical and rock music, melancholy folk and tango predominating, along with a recurring experimental feel. From gloomy and mournful folk at first, the sound began to transform and grow, currently being compared to the work of Nick Cave, Swans and Scott Walker, for example. The group’s work has been described as crossing a wide variety of genres, musical styles and traditions, and the band itself is considered unique among the modern neofolk and post-industrial scenes in Europe. The ingenuity and constructiveness of Spiritual Front’s songs have gained something of a cult status since their formation.
Another important aspect is the fact that the bands’ imagination is based on cinema and literature. Marquês de Sade, Dante, Shakespeare, Pasolini, Fassbinder, João Pedro Rodrigues, Ingmar Bergman and Derek Jarman are examples of authors and filmmakers with enormous weight in the lyrics of Spiritual Front, making their music an object of multidisciplinary study.
On the 30th of September, as a way of marking the world music day, a round table will be held, in collaboration with the University of Algarve and the Cineclube de Faro, where the influence of cinema on the music of the three bands in question will be discussed, with the presence of of musicians from the bands present at the concert.
The ticket for this concert costs €12, can be purchased on the BOL platform. FNAC, CTT, WORTEN and EL CORTE INGLES, as well as entrance to the concert venue.
The concert will start at 8pm. Doors open at 7:30pm
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