As usual, Umbigo will be part of ARCOlisboa 2019 with a booth and the art project Oracle by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso.Oracle draws information from past artworks and foresees the future in thoughts and ambiguous visions. According to the work’s sinopsis, “the project consists...
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The True Meaning of Luxury At Estalagem da Ponta do Sol, Valeriu Borcos, from the band Karpov not Kasparov, is playing the piano; the laidback audience listens to and cherishes the experience. Outside, musicians and the crowd laxly look at the sunset.When we get there, people stroll around the hotel, including the usual...
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with Rui P. Andrade & Aires (Vítor Bruno Pereira)The MUDAS stage got filled with plants to welcome the music of Rui P. Andrade & Aires (the stage name of Vítor Bruno Pereira), both born in Madeiran and co-founders of the Coletivo Casa Amarela (CCA). They...
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An Architecture of CompositionIn MADEIRADiG, an intense voice and soft delicate hands manipulate the instruments as if we were watching a contemporary dance piece. The concert of Maja Osojnik is one of those that remain in our thoughts for days after the performance. Let Them...
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Language Between IslandsAn absolutely memorable concert drove part of the audience to an emotion, although it was only the second concert of the two. Five days earlier they had played in London and then travelled to Madeira to play Island: an album edited by Shouting...
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At Peixola, as the Portuguese name implies, fish is the main raw material, a divinely cooked fish, which is then split into several different dishes that make up the tasting menu. This is the restaurant where Vítor Hugo does his magic tricks. A chef, like...
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Between Nature and ExperimentalLaraaji dresses orange every day, a dress code with a vibrant radiation, close to the colour of the sun, fire, energy and creativity. “By the mid-70s I started to use orange in an experimental attitude. It is what I call a deep...
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Edward Larry Gordon aka Laraaji was born in Philadelphia and started by studying piano, trombone and vocals. The street performances that are his work only came up later, during the 70s, in Park Slope in Brooklyn, Village and Upper West Side. “Village was my favourite...
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Code is PoetryIn a fusion between music and digital art, NaN:Collider (João Martinho Moura and António Rafael, together with Miguel Pedro, founder of the group Mão Morta) presented at MADEIRADiG an immersive show that takes the spectator on a 30 minute trip through the deep...
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“This is a real luxury”Formed in Australia in 1987, The Necks are one of the best jazz experimental trios in the world that we had the privilege to listen to in Madeira during their thirty years tour". It’s a portal to another universe, which probably...
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