Yet another video taken from one of the best Portuguese albums of 2012: Quack, by Nice Weather for Ducks. You can still download the record for free through Optimus Discos. Who knows, it could be your summer indie rock record.
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a BOLACHAS.ORG premiere
Southern Portuguese singer-songwriter Mandrax Icon will finally release his debut LP on vinyl, Mary Climbed the Ladder for the Sun, this summer on his own label, Nostril Records. There’s no definitive release date yet, but this thing we know: Cakes and Tapes will be joining the party, releasing 33 copies of it on cassette. That’s how much I love this.
While we all wait for it, I’m proud to present you my fav track from the album, also named “Mary Climbed the Ladder for the Sun”, probably the best album/song name released this year. Kinda reminds me of 2010’s best one, Swans’ My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky. Luckily for all of us, the song is even more amazing than the title itself; sprawling over almost six minutes, we get a certain The Tallest Man on Earth feel due to the finger-picked guitar (his major influences also include legendary guitar players like John Fahey or Jack Rose, so you know he gets things right). Love it when the hammond (played by guest Silas Ferreira, from Os Pontos Negros) kicks in at 1:18. You all should know by know that a hammond is strictly necessary to turn a good song into a great song, right?
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Cavalheiro, one of the best songwriters Santo Tirso, Portugal (hometown of three Bolachas writers) ever spawned has just put out his 4th EP, Ritmo Cruzeiro on the solid Barcelos label Honeysound. The atmosphere here (as well as the guitarplay) kinda evokes Destroyer’s Trouble in Dreams – if we forget about Dan Bejar’s vocal eccentricity, of course. As (almost) always, Ritmo Cruzeiro is available for free download and streamable on the BC widget below.
<a href=“http://cavalheiro1.bandcamp.com/album/ritmo-cruzeiro” data-mce-href=“http://cavalheiro1.bandcamp.com/album/ritmo-cruzeiro”>Ritmo Cruzeiro by Cavalheiro</a>
Oh, and for those unable to beat the language barrier, here’s a Deerhunter cover for you.
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Portuguese Beatles-lover, non-hipster, pretty-decent-songwriter Gustavo Caldeira is back with his brand new album, “Nail on the Head”. Great thing about it: since he’s a Bolachas lover, he’s distributing it for free to our readers. You can find a download link to both “Nail on the Head” and his previous album “Say Don’t – Look What!” right after the tracklist. If you live in the UK, you’re lucky: he’ll be playing the island for the first time in November: 07/11 at Nambucca, London, and 25/11 at The Constitution, Camden.
“Pray For Me” Single 2011 by gcdayer
Tracklist:
01 Nail On The Head
02 Thunder Of Lightning
03 Moments Of Inspiration
04 The Best Of All Solutions
05 Pray For Me
06 The Fool Within
07 How We Feel
08 Sally Wants To Be A Star
09 Play
10 Roll 42
11 I’m Sad
12 La Femme
Nail on the Head (2011)
Say Don’t – Look What! (2009)
Another fantastic A Música Portuguesa a Gostar Dela Própria session, this time with previously featured Portuguese folk ensemble You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown. Watch “Sad Song”, from their debut EP, below.
Punch Magazine has also made a similar kind of video of them playing the song “I’ve Been Lost”, from their debut LP “Chromatic”.
You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown has also just been announced to be playing Festival Paredes de Coura on August 19, along with bands like Deerhunter, Kings of Convenience, Battles or Marina and the Diamonds. See the full lineup here.
