Recommendation: We All Die! What A Circus! - Somnium Effugium

Band: We All Die! What A Circus!
Album: Somnium Effugium
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. Somnium I
02. Effugium I
03. Effugium II
04. Somnium II
05. Effugium III
06. Effugium IV
07. Somnium III
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We All Die! What A Circus! is an one man post-rock band from Portugal and has returned with a haunting album!

"A metaphysical shelter from corporate society. An ascetic journey towards death but celebrating life itself."

Somnium Effugium recorded between March and September, 2017. The album is about the dream of escaping ("Somnium") and the escape itself ("Effugium"). In this world of borders and ruins, both on the inside and the outside, the need to escape is inevitable.

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Album: We All Die! What A Circus! - We All Die! What A Circus!

Band: We All Die! What A Circus!
Album: We All Die! What A Circus!
Label: Self Released
Year: 2017








Tracklist
01. The Trouble Of Being Born
02. Emil Cioran's Nightwalk
03. Bluebird
04. A Fishing Rod For My Grandpa
05. Tears Do Not Burn Except In Solitude
06. What We Think We Become
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We All Die! What A Circus! is the solo studio project of João Guimarães from Portugal and was created in 2013. It all started with the release of the EP Drowning Gives Meaning To Breath (June, 2013) which consisted of soundscapes (synths, samples, field-recordings) mixed with post-rock and "folk" guitars with a minimalist approach focusing on the atmosphere. The song "Drowning Gives Meaning To Breath" was featured on the RibsOut Compilation 6 and the song "Hold" was featured on the compilation The Best Of Portuguese Post-Rock 2013 made by the Portuguese website Planeta Post-Rock. 

In September of 2014 the first full-length "Until The Cosmos Takes Me Back"was released featuring more drone elements, intricated guitar-work and a more layered sound, featuring two singles: From India To Gaza I, one of the highlights of the album with a strong guitar-lead dwelling in the air with its simplicity, and Old Village In Space which combines a sense of nostalgia with an eerie slow-pace solo. The album was considered one of the best Portuguese albums of the year by the website Bandcom and the song "Our Dust Turned Into This" was featured on the compilation The Best of Portuguese Post - Rock 2014 by Planeta Post-Rock. 

Between 2015 and early 2017 the new self-titled album was recorded expanding the sound of the project with a different concept, including elements of dark jazz, modern classical all warped up by reverb-drenched drone soundscapes and also post-rock guitar featuring drums for the first time.

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EP: Deepbreathers - EP1

Band: Deepbreathers
Album: EP1
Label: Self Released
Year: 2016








Tracklist
01. The Sun, Hidden There
02. Palindrome/333
03. Immerse
04. Interlude
05. Perspective Will Kill You
06. Resurrectio
07. Dinosauria, We (Bukowski)
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Deepbreathers are a Portuguese instrumental post-rock/alternative duo from Oporto, which consists of Francisco Oliveira and Bernardo Costa. 

The band formed in early 2013, mostly influenced by Radiohead and their experimentalism. A first song was released, "Urbanizing Movement's Frantic Rhythm", which the band soon decided to be an extremely short and low-quality work. The song was removed and, apart from a few concerts playing covers, the band did not release anything until July 2013. That month, "Get Me Sparkling", a summerish song, was released. Very easy-listening, experimental and completely influenced by the early, innocent stage of the band, two kids in a nutshell at the very beginning of their musical experience. 

Unfortunately, school left no space for Deepbreathers to get back to work at the end of the summer, so the band went idle for another year. "(For The Moon)" was another summerish, although a bit darker song, featuring artwork by Pedro Azevedo, released in August 2014. But once again, school made sure the band would not work on new things until the next year. 

Deepbreathers won the Tradiio contest in January 2015, with "(For The Moon)". The band then finally worked enough to think about releasing an EP, after many ideas were put on the table. "Immerse", featuring Inês Saraiva Guimarães, was released in April 2015 as a single from "EP1", the then supposedly upcoming album. It happened that, at the time, upcoming had been a very strong word. A second single, "Perspective Will Kill You", a song depicting the lifetime of the common human and its inability to avoid mistakes, was not released until September. By Christmas, the band started working hard, fighting the trouble of having to study. The structure for most songs was already solid by February, and in the very few days before the album came out, recording and independent production were finished. 

"EP1" was released on March 24th 2016, an album with a very simple mission: to define rhythm and melody as the best way to describe a physical, yet emotional landscape. It features an instrumental background work on the poem "Dinosauria, We" by Charles Bukowski. It obtained a very good reception among the target audience, and Deepbreathers are satisfied and working on new experiments.

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Video: Then They Flew - Owls

Album: Then They Flew - Stable As The Earth Stops Spinning

Band: Then They Flew
Album: Stable As The Earth Stops Spinning
Label: Self Released
Year: 2015







Tracklist
01. La Lys
02. Rooftop
03. Evergreen/Aftermath
04. An Enemy Will Bring Us Together
05. Owls
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Then They Flew is a project from Lisbon, Portugal, featuring five musicians with different backgrounds, united by a shared passion for instrumental rock. Inspired by many of the international bands that define the genre, they gather songs with different moods in which they explore the generous possibilities of "post-rock".

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Video: Catacombe - Ninho De Vespas (Live)

The Inquisition: 009.Catacombe

1. How did you came up with the name of the band?

The name came from the fact that an earlier rehearsal room was in a place that look just like catacombs, and by association the idea to name the band Catacomb as surged, but in fact there was already a band called Catacomb, so an "e" was added at end to make the name original, and Catacombe was born! 

2. Do you have a standard procedure of creating a song? Do you just jam around or is there a main riff and the track is build up on it? 

There's no standard procedures to create songs, the things happen naturally, sometimes one of us bring a riff and we start jamming over till we get something, or we just start jamming and let it roll, it's aleatory and sometimes we make some great song in a single rehearsal and other times it takes weeks till we get a song completely done. 

3. What are your influences and what kind of music do you hear when you are at home? 

Each one of us has it's own musical preferences and influences, I (Gil) am a big fan of stoner rock, sludge, post-rock/metal, progressive rock, but i also listen frequently other stuff, from jazz to some genres of electronic music, noise and drone things ...It depends on the mood, and it's common to all the members in Catacombe, we listen to a great variety of music, we are not into special type of music. 

4. What’s the first record you've ever bought ? 

The first I (Gil) really bought, as i could remember, was Bleach from Nirvana, and i still listen to it nowadays from time to time. 

5. Name a band that you would like to share the stage or tour with ? 

As a band and concerning our style let's name two, for example Russian Circles and Caspian and at a more personal level I would say Tool. 

6. Did the internet and specially the blogs helped to spread your music around the world? Name a place (country) that you were surprised to know your music has reached to? 

Yes for sure, internet nowadays is the main tool to reach the entire world, we have already reached many places around the globe, but one was somehow surprising, we received a message from a guy in Iran apologizing for not being able to buy our records cause due to Iran's policies he couldn't buy anything related to music art or culture out of his country, but internet and digital music broke trough all those frontiers. 

7. Do you support the idea of bandcamp where fans can decide the price or services like spotify?

Bandcamp is a good platform to sell your music and merch, you can easily set up your own store having total control over it, you can also give your music for free if you want, fans may decide do pay what they want, yes it's a definitely a great platform. Other services like Spotify that can make your music reach new listeners are also good, but I'm not aware how it really works for musicians in terms of revenues, it seems like Spotify earns big money out of it and musicians are paid almost nothing. 

8. Where do you see yourselves in 5 years? 

In 5 years we'll be making new songs, releasing new albums, doing concerts, basically we'll be doing what we enjoy most for sure! 

9. Is the artwork of an album important nowadays in the digital era? 

It's always important, no matter if it's digital or not, the artwork is part of the whole.

10. Which is your favorite album cover? 

Tool´s Lateralus album cover (the version with different layers), by Alex Grey! ☺ http://youtu.be/qUOzp609igA

 

11. It seems that a lot of people are turning on vinyl again. Why do you think that is and which is your preferable media format? 

Nowadays the CD is obsolete, most people listening music on their phone, mp3 player, laptop, etc etc... Vinyl is more a collectible object, has a ritual on its listening, the large artwork, warm sound, even the smell brings sensations! 

12. What's the funniest story or moment as a band? 

There's one recent funny moment that happened at our rehearsal room, some crazy Australian guy on vacation knocked on our door and asked if he could watch our rehearsal for a while as he was listening outside and he was enjoying our music a lot, we said it was ok and invited him in, we start playing again and the guy started freaking out to the music, with completely insane body movements, it was hilarious!

Catacombe recenty released their newest album "Quidam".

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Album: La Flag - Spargelzeit

Band: La Flag
Album: Spargelzeit
Label: Self Released
Year: 2014








Tracklist
01. Zenith
02. Antonov
03. Dama De Espadas
04. Far
05. Liu Kang
06. Mocho
07. Ophelia
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La Flag are four friends from Portugal based in Lisbon, who released the debut album ‘Spargelzeit’ on April 5th, with ‘Zenith’ as the first single. 

‘Spargelzeit’ is an instrumental rock album that was written in the last couple years, trying to showcase its own sonority and bring something new to this musical spectrum. 

This album was recorded in October’13 at the Black Sheep Studios, home of in-numerous and successful Portuguese projects. It was produced by Makoto Yagyu and Fábio Jevelim from PAUS, and mastered by Chris Common who has worked with many bands such as Palms and Helms Alee.

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