When launching issue #74, commemorating the 18th anniversary of Umbigo magazine, at MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, we invited DJ Rai (Incógnito, Lisbon) to select and play 18 musics for 18 years....
When launching issue #74, comm...
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Blasting through the speakers, Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols, an iconic English punk and alternative rock band that lived between 1976-78. After the Sex Pistols, Sparks, New Order, Talking Heads, Television, Patti Smith, among many others, appeared. An endless playlist following us...
Blasting through the speakers,...
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When the status quo wants everything to remain comme il faut, a protest song will always appear asking for change. It was always like that, from medieval ballads dedicated to a fictional Robin Hood to modern hip hop, because a song can be an extraordinary...
When the status quo wants ever...
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With the imminent re-opening of terrestrial borders and the recent mission of Space X, I thought it was appropriate this weekend to approach the human adventure in space and the music that we have done amazeded by such situation and as to "musically illustrate" that...
With the imminent re-opening o...
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If one thing is good, why not two? This is not exactly the logic behind this week's predominantly Anglo-Saxon choices, but we have to admit that two are always better than one. Hence my decision to approach some of the great duets I grew up...
If one thing is good, why not ...
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Hello again. I have to thank all the good feedback gathered by these selections and for this one I've decided one more thing that will end up affecting how some of these choices are made. So it seems that every time I reach a dozen...
Hello again. I have to thank a...
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This week I decided to go for a stroll on the vast and anamorphic landscape that is the world of Cinema, more specifically its soundtracks. If we discount musical cinema, all music in a film has been almost always relegated to the end, for when...
This week I decided to go for ...
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The list is too big to fit here so I just decided to pick from pop's songbook 3 hands full of anthems that have eyes set on Mecca and ears tuned in the direction of Jerusalem. Supposedly always scared of the moor, the West never...
The list is too big to fit her...
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Yacht. Lately this word has been conjured up so much that on Spotify it even serves to label a certain type of music but being really sincere I leave here my opinion that it might as well be just one more marketing ploy. Reshape-remodel of...
Yacht. Lately this word has be...
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Saravá galera. I had to start with this classic greeting. I don't know if it was like that with anyone else, but my relationship with Brazilian culture was something that grew like a feverish temperature, coming from an almost complete rejection, with the mercury in...
Saravá galera. I had to start...
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