Lovers & Lollypops was created in 2005, with the desire to document and amplify all the music that, at the time, excited its founding members. Fifteen years and a hundred records later, this is still its greatest aspiration: to register what is being one of the most exciting moments of musical production in Portugal, combining record publishing with concert promotion and booking. A mission that nowadays is also open to artists and agents of other countries, who find in the editorial arm of L&L a vehicle to let their work reach new audiences and in our action as concert and event promoters an important ally to allow their music to be presented in other markets.
Seeking to deepen the work and vision of the structure, Lovers & Lollypops also extended its activity to two complementary areas: having professionalized as a partner in the conceptualization and programming of festivals and concerts, as well as in the production and management of cultural events.
Angélica Salvi
Angélica Salvi
Phantone, Angélica Salvi's debut album, expresses what she's been learning with her work over the past few years: she has a unique ability to communicate and express herself freely with her instrument, the harp. Born in Spain, but a resident of Porto since 2011, where she teaches at the local Music Conservatory, her career includes collaborations with Evan Parker, Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Modelo 62, Brokkenfabriek, Butch Morris, and works developed for Sonoscopia or Balleteatro. Phantone, recorded during Encontrarte de Amares event inside the Rendufe Monastery, seeks sound freedom and explores the ways though which sound can inhabit a space using different layers and paths. The “phantom” that exist in the seven pieces of Phantone is very real, but less formal than you think. More an affirmation than a presence, whether in the imagined places of Salvi's music or in the concrete effects that the recording in the monastery induced in her music. Music that you read, hear, smell, feel and taste.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Altın Gün
Altın Gün
It was after a performance with Jacco Gardner that Jasper Verhulst fell in love with the sound of 70's Turkish music, when names like Selda, Barış Manço and Erkin Koray began to cross local tradition with elements of western rock. Alongside Ben Rider and Nic Mauskovic, they began their search for Turkish musicians who could help them revive this sound. They found Merve Dasdemir and Erdinc Yildiz Ecevit on Facebook and “stole” Gino Groeneveld from Jungle by Night. Taking the repertoire of the Turkish heroes who inspired them, their contemporary peers and the songs of the traditional songbook, Altın Gün reinvent the marriage between East and West, in a cross language between funk, psychedelics and rock. On his debut album, On, the four Amsterdamers settle definitively in this no-man's-land adventure between the two worlds.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Arp Frique
Arp Frique
Niles Nieuborg finds in his alter ego Arp Frique the ideal space to shape the two things he likes the most in music: the sound of Arp synthesizers and disco music. Solo, or in collaboration with other musicians in this format Arp Frique & Family, he has sought to bring new horizons to the music of tropical landscapes. In “Welcome To The Colorful World of Arp Frique”, the debut album released by Rush Hour, the dance floor leaves the clubs in New York to settle between the Caribbeans and Cape Verde. An album travelling around the world that makes us dance funaná to the sound of Américo Brito's voice, to lose ourselves in the Brazilian disco funk alongside Ed Motta, listen to Suriname through the flute of Ronald Snijders and in a constant hallucination with Orlando Julius Afrobeat.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Ava Rocha
Ava Rocha
Interdisciplinary artist, Ava Rocha is an illuminator, photographer, costume designer, illustrator, actress and cook. A hyperactivity that she inherited, to a large extent, from her parents (film director Glauber Rocha and photographer, poet, filmmaker and artist Paula Gaitán) who, from an early age, exposed her to a multiplicity of artistic languages and creativity. Appointed as one of the most interesting Brazilian artists of her time by the New York Times, she built a repertoire that carves out of Tropicalismo but has a wide open eye to what is outside, proving that Brazilian contemporary music has been discovering new worlds outside its grounds. In her most recent record, Trança, she strike us again with a forward-looking pop, intertwining rock, funk, post-punk, electronics, African and Amazonian grooves and percussions.
Ava Rocha, participated in albums by artists such as Jards Macalé, Negro Leo and Gustavo Galo and projects like “E Volto Pra Curtir”, “Mulheres of Pericles” and the movie JARDS. She is part of Baile Primitivo - a collective of political art that sings sambas of social contestation; having also composed soundtracks for cinema, where she worked as an editor.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Black Bombaim
Black Bombaim
They´ve stolen their name from Mão Morta, the bass groove from Sleep, the guitar fuzz from Hendrix and the drums in locomotive mode from Earthless. Like the Sex Pistols, with what they´ve stolen, they created something new and unic: not a punk van, but a stoner spaceship with only two speeds - the orbit and the escape, propelling us into the sidereal vacuum where a riff stretched to eternity seems to last just long enough to induce trance. Owners of what is probably the most fascinating psych rock born in Portugal, the collective arises from the effervescent movement of new bands coming out of Barcelos in the late 90s. Today, with seven releases and a handful of the most relevant collaborations (from Peter Brotzman to La La La Ressonance, from Jonathan Saldanha, to João Pais Filipe), they are one of the most referenced bands in Portuguese underground.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Black Bombaim & João Pais Filipe
Black Bombaim & João Pais Filipe
They´ve stolen their name from Mão Morta, the bass groove from Sleep, the guitar fuzz from Hendrix and the drums in locomotive mode from Earthless. Like the Sex Pistols, with what they´ve stolen, they created something new and unic: not a punk van, but a stoner spaceship with only two speeds - the orbit and the escape, propelling us into the sidereal vacuum where a riff stretched to eternity seems to last just long enough to induce trance. Owners of what is probably the most fascinating psych rock born in Portugal, the collective arises from the effervescent movement of new bands coming out of Barcelos in the late 90s. Today, with seven releases and a handful of the most relevant collaborations (from Peter Brotzman to La La La Ressonance, from Jonathan Saldanha, to João Pais Filipe), they are one of the most referenced bands in Portuguese underground.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzman
Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzman
Some say this is a meeting long written in the psychedelic sky. Everything seemed to announce it on the paths of both the Portuguese stoner rock band Black Bombaim and German free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann. The first ones had been adding a saxophone to their music, with their choice usually being Rodrigo Amado and Pedro Sousa, leading figures of portuguese jazz, or late Steve Mackay, tenor who appears in the pioneering “L.A. Blues” by Iggy Pop's Stooges. The second had multiple rock approach experiences from Last Exit formed with Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell and Ronald Shannon Jackson to Full Blast with Marino Pliakas and Michael Wertmüller , passing by his collaborations with his son Caspar Brötzmann or Keiji Haino's Fushitsucha. And the curious thing about this partnership is that neither the guitar, bass and drum power trio goes out of their way to accommodate Brötzmann, nor does he attempt to compromise with his interlocutors. It is simply not necessary.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Boogarins
Boogarins
Boogarins' “Dinho” Almeida and Benze Ferraz have been playing music together since their boiling adolescence. In his parents' gardens they began to create psychedelic pop, filtering the rich Brazilian musical culture through modern lenses. Going from duet to quartet, with Ynaiã on drums and Raphael on bass, their editorial debut, As Plantas Curam (2013), left Brazil and Portugal holding hands and kneeling in front of the dirty amplifiers that scream beautiful things. From there they gave us Manual, a record that reconfirms them as four the most exciting rock'n'rollers who have ever made the Pedro Álvares Cabral route, and, in 2017, Lá Vem a Morte, a record released with no warning. In 2019, they made a clear step towards internationalization, with a fourth album recorded in Texas that proves the band's continuous desire to explore the various studio potentials. Sombrou Dúvida is a picture of the present world, unstable and pessimistic, while simultaneously trying to reverse all this with the positivism of technology. A record that runs in the tightrope, questioning relationships and their place in the world, in a set of songs that whispers the uncertainty of the times while saying that everything is fine.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Carne Doce
Carne Doce
Carne Doce are one of the most important bands coming out of the new creators harvest that appeared in Goiana, Brazil. Founded in 2013 by couple Salma Jô and Macloys, who then were joined by João Victor Santana and Aderson Maia,the band has built around a reputation for being one of the most explosive and sensual bands to play live, today, in Brazil. With Tonus, their third studio album, they’ve solidified a place in the authorial scene of the country, further consolidating their journey through intimacy, human vulnerability and power games.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Cave Story
Cave Story
Cave Story were born as a trio in Caldas, a city land that has been linked to a certain artistic movement in the West part of Portugal. In 2016, they took over the Portuguese radio stations with West, a debut EP where they purged fears and boredom through a set of songs where rock notions met a eared and colorful pop, exactly as the urgency and rebelliousness of youth demands. Transformed into a quartet, they edited Punk Academics, guiding us through the lessons of DIY, punk and hardcore. A case study on the influences, without prejudice, of the physical liberation of the Black Flag, playfulness of the Minutemen, or the contemplation that never loses its sight of the Television.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Conferência Inferno
Conferência Inferno
Francisco Lima, Raul Mendiratta and José Miguel Silva are the members of Conferência Inferno. In early 2021 they revealed Ata Saturna, their first LP. Born on the road in Portugal, but established in Porto, they delivered us the mirror of dehumanization, with distressful lyrics full of social criticism. Influenced by dark wave and post punk movements, Conferência Inferno are proof that we don’t need drums nor guitars to be punk. Something we already knew from Bazar Esotérico, EP released in the summer of 2019, when they were still a duo, in which they registered night portraits of an inexperienced city in the art of being urgent.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
CZN
CZN
The last few years have been busy for João Pais Filipe. From the edition with the experimental duo Paisiel to the homonymous solo album, the collaborations with portuguese bands HHY & The Macumbas and Black Bombay, to the international meetings with Burnt Friedman, GNOD, African percussionist Omutaba and Peruvian master Manongo Mujica, there has been little time for the percussionist and gong builder to stop. Hence the challenge for what became a beautiful love story, came from his label: Lovers & Lollypops. The idea was for him to see a Tomaga concert, one of the projects of Valentina Magaletti, but the chemistry between the two was instant. From there they've forged TheGolden Path, the first album released under the moniker CZN. Nocturnal, visceral, erratic, immersive, the “golded route” through where they both guide us places music and its historical role at the center of human spirituality: uniting instinct with discipline, reality with the dream, the finite and the eternal.
Booking: joaquim@loversandlollypops.net
The Comet Is Coming
The Comet Is Coming
Things are not easy out there. On the brink of environmental and political collapse, there are days when there seems to be little room for hope. Fortunately, art has been renewing its ability to relieve pressure through pure and simple catharsis. May this manifesto serve to introduce The Comet is Coming, power trio that incorporates elements of jazz, electronics and psych rock to draw a future away from the chaos that drowns us. It is within the jazzy phrasing and broken beats of hip hop and techno, the glowing lyrics of the poets that they introduce in some of to their themes, in the fulfillment of the afrofuturism's design where we will be able to find Shabaka Hutchings, Dan Leavers and Max Hallett liberating dance. A music aiming for transcendency in the hopes to reveal new realities. It started like this in Channel the Spirits, the first album that got them nominated them for the Mercury Awards and garnered critical acclaim, it established itself, this year, with Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery and The Afterlife, two albums released in a burst via Impulse. In the sky we will be a fire that carries a tail of sparks. It is better to be awake not to lose it.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Deafkids
Deafkids
They are one of the most exciting bands we know, especially due to the way they take into a unique psychoactive journey, that grabs the most primitive influences of Brazilina culture and turns it into something new and mind-blowing. A kind of sonic Ayahuasca marked by the rhythm of Brazilian polyrhythmic percussion, hypnotic singing and the most raw and pure punk. With Metaprogramação, their most recent release, they take this mixture to totally new extremes, building a narrative in which the songs merge and dissolve, where electronic is mixed with the power of rhythmic fabrics, all frantically created to print and design this “psychic scenario for primitive future”. A psychedelic and wild journey that is destined to reach the mind through the body while intoxicating both.
Booking: joaquim@loversandlollypops.net
Duquesa
Duquesa
Duquesa is Nuno Rodrigues, a young man who translates his metamorphosis with melodic resourcefulness and pop hooks whose taste dissolves but does not forget. His music praises that the written word is implicit in the art of songwriting and his voice blurs with the melodies with which he paints his charged expression. Wrinkles get around with irony-torn smiles and a pop pastel base is applied. In Norte Litoral, we hear his passion for the 1980s turning into a current pop sounding document, where lyrical minimalism makes room for neat arrangements, bold melodies, drawing us to both familiar and distinctive landscapes and a blunted romanticism.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Ece Canli
Ece Canli
Ece Canlı debuts solo with Vox Flora, Vox Fauna, a series of soundscapes loomed by extended vocal techniques, extralinguistic poetry and other instruments. The path of the turkish artist living in Porto has been paved by several collaborations: NOOITO, duo with the harpist Angélica Salvi; Live Low, band from Porto started by Pedro Augusto; and Cobra’Coral, vocal trio with Catarina Mirand and Clélia Collona. This first work in her own name was recorded in an artistic residence in Alpendurada, in a dirt store, where potatoes and onions are usually stored. The environment and energy created by the lighting of the space incorporated the record, which evokes and crystallizes the incorporation of human-animal-nature.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Flamingods
Ghost Hunt
Ghost Hunt
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Ghost Hunt are not chasing ghosts, nor do they want to scare anyone, but the music they make could be the soundtrack of a rave in a haunted house. They grew up in the same city, Coimbra, went to the same school and were practically of the same class, but they never belonged to the same "tribe". Pedro Chau, from The Parkinsons, has always been more connected to punk; and Pedro Oliveira, a former member of Monomoy, has always been closer to the indie universe. Today, older, they form the electronic duo Ghost Hunt. Age is like that, it awakens our ears and minds to other influences that have always been there within our reach, but that we didn't even know we had.
Booking: josé@loversandlollypops.net
Glockenwise
Glockenwise
Glockenwise are Nuno Rodrigues, Rafael Ferreira and Rui Fiúsa. They were 16 years old when they started making music, inheriting the spirit of the famous “Barcelos scene”, a cool narrative that has Milhões de Festa as its epicenter and good neighborhood as its creative policy. After three albums, Bulding Waves (2011), Leeches (2013) and Heat (2015), they bet on reinventing themselves and they won. They swept the national tops with their best album yet and the first totally sung in Portuguese. Launched around Christmas 2018, Plástico is a testament to the band's maturity and an unequivocal proof that there is much to see and hear in the country that exists outside the great urban centers. Lyric painted with irony, that reflects on the foam of days, their routines and normalities, the sound universe that they built balances the urgency of rock (a space that they so well traced in their first three albums) with the unfolding of modernity, making us believe that the future of Portuguese music starts here, today.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Gnod + João Pais Filipe
João Pais Filipe
João Pais Filipe
João Pais Filipe is a drummer, percussionist and sound sculptor from Porto, born in the 80's. His path as a musician is marked by the collision with a wide range of styles and languages in bands such as Sektor 304, HHY & The Macumbas, Unzen Pilot and Fail Better !, Paisiel or CZN. While maintaining a regular activity in the improvised music world, he has participated in numerous projects alongside Burnt Friedman, Steve Hubback, Fritz Hauser, Evan Parker, Marcello Magliocchi or Rafael Toral, to state just a few.
His music comes from the construction of gongs, cymbals and other percussion metal instruments, where he explores the sculptural dimension and the acoustic properties of the instrument. As a solo artist he advances through the exploration of the tension that can be created between the mechanic and the organic, the repetition and the loop, the dance floor and the mantra, creating a space for his own labeled ethno-techno where dancefloor cadences are appropriate and reinterpreted in a custom percussion kit designed by him.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Jacco Gardner
Jacco Gardner
Singer and multi-instrumentalist, Jacco Gardner has achieved, with only two albums, a pole-position in the world of contemporary psychedelia. Cabinet of Curiosities and Hypnophobia showed us this universe of futuristic strangeness, where pop is filled of raw and baroque details, fairytales and vintage passions. It was probably around that time that Pitchfork described him as a “studio wizard” and that Portugal (as well as the rest of the world) fell in love with what he was doing. He visited Portugal several times, until he finally settled in Lisbon, where he discovered a new life, immersed in cinema, literature and philosophy. And it is precisely from this universe that Somnium was born, his first voiceless album, that once again reflects the way the musician appropriates and transcends his traveling experiences.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Jorge Coelho
Jorge Coelho
Jorge Coelho carries in his fingers the force of the generation that would dictate the rhythm of music production in Porto. With a background strongly rooted in the city's sonic culture, the guitarist explores the many possibilities of strings within various fronts, sometimes bending conventions with Torto, sometimes honing the art of storytelling fingerpicking under his own name. Invariably, and with the dexterity of those who were born to this, it is with his winding instrument that Jorge Coelho proceeds in a straight line, continuing to establish himself as a force in the art of writing music.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Julius Gabriel
Julius Gabriel
Julius Gabriel's music is, in its only apparent abstraction, haunted by the earlier lives of saxophonists whose music has passed through time like an unprecedented gust of sound. In “Dream Dream Beam Beam”, his first solo album, the German saxophonist organizes his idiosyncratic musical influences to create a flowing mantra of circular patterns, overtones and free jazz eruptions, that can be understood as the possible synthesis of a long jazzy tradition interspersed with imaginative drone and noise intrusions. In his most recent work, Ætherhallen, Julius Gabriel keeps his tendency, with a pass in the psychedelic and a detour to the minimalist. Julius Gabriel's improvised compositions sound like eccentric dust particles dancing, in slow motion, under the twilight until the end of time, proposing to those who hear them a requiem for eternal life.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Killimanjaro
Killimanjaro
Killimanjaro veni vidi vici. Rock of the best kind, exported from Barcelos, Portugal, they brought the refreshing to what was stagnant. From classic metal to its more muscular deviations, from the Sabbath school to the Iron Maiden leather, they developed a perfect technique of adding line and sinker to the chop, remaining undefeated in the art of inducing bodies into a well-justified headbang. The refined craftsmanship they built lives for the stage, where, in one grasp, they dispel any doubts about what they are here doing: Killimanjaro know how to throw a Mike Tyson style hook without tearing our ears off.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Krypto
Krypto
We don't know who had this idea, but for us it would deserve a medal. To join the one who is, without a doubt, the best and most crazy vocalist that this country has seen (a title that he exhibits, by its own merit, since the mid-nineties with Zen and recently renewed in the insanity of the Plus Ultra) to Greengo, probably the biggest driving force that Invicta saw arise through puffs loaded with intention and acidity. Gon finds the ideal chariots of fire on Martelo's bass and Chaka's drums to launch himself into an endless list of diatribes about isolation, alienation, corruption, the consumer void dazzled by technology or corporate culture. The sound that we are given is brutalist and, to a large extent, impossible to contain. Music that requires resonance and space to be felt, that grows urgently in the carbonary spirit that forces us to reflect about life without hypocritical rules and responsibilities. Let us reject, with them, the idea that we have to become an ideal, a devout comrade of unique thought, far from being an individual and not just part of a tribe.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Les Filles de Illighadad
Les Filles de Illighadad
In recent years the world seems to have developed a particular taste for desert music, making names like Tinariwen, Bombino or Mdou Moctar synonymous for the word Tuareg. However, it should be clarified that guitar music is relatively recent in the region. Until the 1970s, Niger's music scene was marked by tende, a genre that inherits the name of a local percussion instrument and is a tradition for all nomadic women. It is at the intersection of these two worlds, the first markedly male, the second female, that Le Filles de Illighadad began a true revolution. The trio, led by guitarist Fatou Seidi Ghali (the first Niger woman to learn how to play the guitar) has been reclaiming memory and the place of local instruments in Tuareg music, while challenging the recently created gender barriers. With Eghass Malan, they go even further: creating contemporary versions that had never been heard before, throwing nomadic music into the 21st century.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
The Mauskovic Dance Band
The Mauskovic Dance Band
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The musical prowess of Nicola Mauskovic, drummer Jacco Gardner, sketched in studio with friends Donnie Mauskovic, Nik Mauskovic and Mano Mauskovic offers us a unique musical experience. Digging within 70's afrobeat, the cumbia and all the hypnotic sound that can provoke the most balanced and felt dance, an inquestionable son of the distinct routes of each of its members, The Mauskovic Dance Band is a the definitive symbol of celebration in today's music scene. The eponymous debut album, edited under the unquestionably relevant Soundway, grips back into the universe explored with Down In The Basement, they first EP, filtering out the clear influences on Colombian and Peruvian Afro-Latin music through the lens of contemporary Amsterdam. A “controlled explosion,” as The Quietus calls it, based on a professed love for the champeta, palenque, psycadelic cumbia, chichi and picó soundsystem culture.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Maria Beraldo
Maria Beraldo
The ability to provoke, call for attention and transform in less than two minutes reveal the talents that are necessary in a time of constant explosions. Cavala, Maria Beraldo's debut album, dies and reborns several times throughout its ten songs. All concentrated in 24 minutes. Her instant and sudden transformations reflect the urgency of Maria's message and the desire and fearlessness to assume herself as a lesbian woman in the Brazil's contemporary songwriting universe. “Cavala” its a rip with everything, even her own past. Formerly clarinetist in Arrigo Barnabé's band, Maria is also a part of Quartabê and Bolerinho and has collaborated with people like Elza Soares, Negro Leo, Iara Rennó and Rodrigo Campos. Details to illustrate the new life, laden with the ambition of showing herself as a composer and an architect of pop fables that can be weapons to sweeten our ears and transform our minds. Who said that screams couldn't be sweet?
Booking: joaquim@loversandlollypops.net
Mr. Gallini
Mr. Gallini
As we say in Portugal, those who go through Alcobaça do not live their lives without returning there. Unless you are already a local born and apart from worshiping the art of local convent pastry, you endured on the veneration for another less ancient art, that of making rock and roll. It would have been something like this that marked the upbringing of Mr. Gallini, who was born in the portuguese small village of Pisões and whose parents named Bruno Monteiro. He started his rock life as a drummer Stone Dead, brothers born in the same region, with whom he has toured all over Portugal. Not forgetting his mother land, but also seeking to find his own space as a solo artist, Gallini released Lovely Demos, his debut album in 2018, and introduced in 2019 his successor - who is also the second volume of an announced trilogy. The Organist shows Gallini's pop side, following the milestones of rock (choruses, youth, electricity), but leaving room for other more electronic tools (keyboards, theremins and vocoders) to breathe too, creating an album that, at the same time, pays its dues to the 90s brit-pop and the 50s space era, but sounding lively and up-to-date, without falling into the marshlands of mere nostalgia.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Negra Branca
Negra Branca
Negra Branca is Marlene Ribeiro, known as member of the psychedelic squad, Gnod, where she is responsible for many of the more melodic and tonal dream landscapes. Equally at her solo work she stands out due to her tendency for producing dark pop harmonies and deep bass lines, travelling between the swinging of an early Tricky, coral pop and the deepness of favela rhythms, all coated with a sticky varnish of sweet and sour chili sauce. Her first solo recording was a cassette released in 2013 by Gnod’s Tesla Tapes. The excellent critical reception led to comparisons with artists such as Grouper or Inga Copeland.
Booking: joaquim@loversandlollypops.net
OTROTORTO
OTROTORTO
OTROTORTO never walked in a straight line - the musical exercise of the trio that joins Jorge Coelho, Jorge Queijo and Miguel Ramos twists the traditional formation of guitar-bass-drums with challenging harmonies and melodies that are not looking into the familiar grounds. It is in the tension that they are resolved and in the dissonance that they sing and enchant, creating a disconcerting language that engages and develops on its own terms, but with music frequencies they all share. OTROTORTO are suspended without ever falling and revealed themselves as fluent and fluid storytellers. “Letargia em Ré Menor” was the last release of these symphony masters, a sound metaphor about the power of comprehension, restraint, gravity as a force, and the effects of leaning into free will.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Paisiel
Paisiel
Paisiel is the enigmatic name of the project that unite drummer, percussionist and sound sculptor João Pais Filipe to German saxophonist Julius Gabriel. Based on an individual exploration of the sound and expressive possibilities of the instruments they play, the music made by this duo systematizes references without correspondences or obvious affinities. Textured and abstract melodies propelled by a simultaneously mechanical and existential percussion that metamorphoses into a kinetic transe. Heterodox and digressive musicians, moving freely between experimental music, jazz, rock and the other indecipherable new musical categories, João Pais Filipe and Julius Gabriel create radiographic music that is somewhere between reception and broadcasting, like a cosmos telephone exchange.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Samuel Martins Coelho
Samuel Martins Coelho
Samuel Martins Coelho has already a long career. He was part of collective and multiverse projects such as EL RUPE, Estranhofone, Mods Collective, Space Ensemble, Escola do Rock and many more. In 2019, the desire to create something under his own name arose and he released the solo Partita para Violino Solo. Two years later Cura comes out, an antithesis of his first album. Cura hatched under bright lights and a new time in his path with the violin, instrument Control and kindness are the best words to define Cura.
Contact: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Septeto Interregional
Septeto Interregional
Born in the midst of the covid 19 pandemic, Septeto Interregional is the proof that good things can arise during bad moments. Born out of a challenge Musicbox made to Lovers & Lollypops, the group is composed by six musicians and a visual artist from different geographic points and with divergent musical ambitions. Arianna Casellas (Sereias), Mr. Gallini (Stone Dead), Rafael Ferreira (Glockenwise), Rodrigo Carvalho (Solar Corona), Violeta Azevedo (Savage Ohms) and Zezé Cordeiro (Equations) recorded the namesake LP from afar and Serafim Mendes did the visuals. The outcome was a work that, although linked to this time, can live in any other.
Contact: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Sereias
Sereias
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As the country burns with boredom, Sereias get totally immersed in the jazz-punk that promises to be the anthem of a campaign that needs to hit the streets. In the center the poetry of A. Pedro Ribeiro (the “unblessed” poet, anarchist and ex-candidate for Portuguese Presidency) in a constant shock with the turbid, electronic and immersive environments of the sonic masters that accompany him. With their debut album they set the country on fire, throwing us with only a single stroke to the couch. And how the portugueses artistic community needed it! A political, social and philosophical treatise, created in a time when all of this represents an affront to the status quo, to the great teacher. Written with deceptive violence, between the lines of provocation, in the epidermis of a breastplate where you can hit at will. Not only in its lyrics, but also in its music. In this avantgarde, punk, free jazz and post-rock format that causes the voluntary eruption of the senses, in the freedom of execution and in the denial of this same conventional posture. A “zapplian” indiscipline that takes us to the territories of This Heat, Pere Ubu or The Fall. And if the record represents a demeaning audacity in this multiplicity of profiles, live praxis is not only direct, untimely but cannibalistic and exasperating. The balance remains at the base of the extremes and they look so uncomfortable on stage that they end up keeping the focus on the audience.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Sessa
Sessa
Sessa name will not be strange for those who keep a close look the modern Brazilian and American music. Founder of the psych-funk duo Garotas Suecas and regular collaborator of Yonatan Gat, Sessa is one of the most promising new voices coming out from the vibrant São Paulo scene. In Grandeza, his debut solo album, he discovered the space to explore his own vision on the vast and diverse Brazilian sound territory and history. Hence it is not surprising that on this album, which he classifies as a tribute to his country, one finds the viscerality and sensuality of the written and spoken word (remembering the sexual lyrics of Caetano Veloso) and the melodic arrangements of those who grew up listening to Tom Jobim . But Greatness doesn't stop there. In its effort to condense the richness of rhythms and textures of South-American singer-songwriting history, it discovers a new path, pointing to the future, where complex simplicity is the starting point for beauty.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
Stone Dead
Stone Dead
When rock became a pop ornament, it forgot what was important: a cohesive band, guitar looking bass straight in the eyes, the bass on top of the drums, the cymbals exploding with the guitar riffs; an electrifying communication cycle. Stone Dead haven't forgotten what made rock an explosion impossible to contain, half a century ago, and brought these teachings to today's bodies, with an even hotter fuzz and an even more prevalent bass, proving wrong what many have been trying to predict: rock is dead. No, according to Stone Dead it’s fine, it rolls on riffs as much as on hook, and can be recommended.
Booking: jose@loversandlollypops.net
Solar Corona
Solar Corona
By this time it has become natural to assume that Barcelos' water can carry something special within. What it is we can't be sure, but what it has been doing for Portuguese rock is an admirable achievement. Solar Corona were born within the creative bubble of a city that shows how to write rock with crooked lines. How it should be. Formed in 2013, in 2016 they've reached a stable formation and settled in as a quartet, with Rodrigo Carvalho (guitar / synthesizers), Peter Carvalho (drums), José Roberto Gomes (bass) and Julius Gabriel (saxophone / synthesizers). Following the release of three EPs between 2013 and 2016, Solar Corona reached Lightning One, an album that summarizes the result of years of hard work searching for the sound that would triumph in this lineup. Lightning One is a trip to the top, with the right coordinates in the mix, made by José Arantes, mastered by Chris Hardman and artwork by Serafim Mendes, which transcribes in an image the immensity of psychedelic-tropic roads that merge into this Solar Corona.
Booking:jose@loversandlollypops.net
Yin Yin
Yin Yin
In the summer of 2017, Kees Berkers and Yves Lennertz began writing and recording songs at a ballet school in the isolated village of Plateau de Doenrade. Avid record collectors, Yin Yin bring to their music the variety of genres we can find on their own record shelves. Departing from 1960s and 1970s South Asian music, they lead us into a multilingual journey, with stops in world music, funk and electronics. Pingpxng, their debut cassette, symbolizes this, explaining, in detail, how two apparently opposing forces can act in complementarity.
Booking: marcio@loversandlollypops.net
ZA!
ZA!
Papadupau and Spazzfrica Ehd have been testing the limits of human sound creation for more than ten years. The catalan duo is responsible for more than half a thousand live concerts on five continents and six albums that explain, in detail, the multiple possibilities of polyrhythm. The latest, Pachinko Plex, does it without becoming overly analytical, summarizing global influences and having the technique as a compass though the chaos that only them can build. A step forward in the DIY experimentation that they like to nickname as post-worldmusic, and in the free spirit with which they look at your own music, Pachinko Plex is yet another unmissable and rambling journey through melodies, percussions and clutter.
Booking: joaquim@loversandlollypops.net
Septeto Interregional
Septeto Interregional
L&L#121
Cura
Samuel Martins Coelho
L&L#120
Ata Saturna
Conferência Inferno
L&L#118
Ata Saturna
Saturdays & Space Travels
Black Bombaim
L&L#31
Vox Flora, Vox Fauna
Ece Canlı
L&L#117
Vox Flora, Vox Fauna
Kill Screen
Loosers
L&L#116
Kill Screen
Entre Tudo que é Visto e Oculto
Bríi
L&L#115
Unconscious Death Wishes
Paisiel
L&L#114
Raízes Aéreas
Sarine
L&L#113
Raízes Aéreas
Faca de Fogo
Gnod & João Pais Filipe
L&L#112
Duas Vozes
Pedro Augusto
L&L#111
Duas Vozes
II
Ghost Hunt
L&L#110
Sun Oddly Quiet
João Pais Filipe
L&L108
Grandeza
Sessa
L&L#109
Eye18
Krypto
L&L#107
Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Solar Corona
L&L#106
Dragonflies with Birds and Snake
Black Bombaim & João Pais Filipe
L&L#105
O País a Arder
Sereias
L&L#104
Phantone
Angélica Salvi
L&L#103
Lay Claim to the World as a Sphere Of Your own Agency
Jorge Coelho
L&L#102
ÆTHERHALLEN
Julius Gabriel
L&L#102
ÆTHERHALLEN
The Organist
Mr. Gallini
L&L#100
Lighting One
Solar Corona
L&L#99
Configuração do Lamento Remixes
Deaf Kids
L&L#98
Cavala
Maria Beraldo
L&L#97
Letargia em Ré Menor
OtrotortO
L&L#96
Letargia em Ré Menor
Black Bombaim - w/ Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes & Pedro Augusto
Black Bombaim - w/ Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes & Pedro Augusto
L&L#95
Black Bombaim - w/ Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes & Pedro Augusto
Sold out
Remixes of Burnt Friedman, Tomaga and UKAEA
João Pais Filipe
L&L#95
Cacilhas
Cacilhas
L&L#94
The Golden Path
CZN
L&L#93
The Golden Path
LP Sold Out
Boogarins x Negro Leo
Boogarins x Negro Leo
L&L#92
Punk Academics
Cave Story
L&L#91
João Pais Filipe
João Pais Filipe
L&L#90
Pachinko Plex
Za!
L&L#89
Água Má
Filho da Mãe
Sol de Março
Medeiros/Lucas
L&L#87
Paisiel
Paisiel
L&L#86
Paisiel
LP Sold Out
Dream Dream Beam Beam
Julius Gabriel
L&L#85
Dream Dream Beam Beam
Tape Sold Out
Lovely Demos
Mr.Gallini
L&L#84
Boavista
Gonçalo
L&L#83
Boavista
Good Boys
Stone Dead
L&L#82
Norte Litoral
Duquesa
L&L#81
West
Cave Story
L&L#079
Toada
Live Low
L&L#080
Black Bombaim & Peter Brotzmann
Black Bombaim & Peter Brotzmann
L&L#078
Black Bombaim & Peter Brotzmann
LP and CD Sold Out
Shroud
Killimanjaro
L&L#077
Mergulho
Filho da Mãe
L&L#077
Masala
Jibóia
L&L#075
Eden
Sequin
L&L#74
Terra do Corpo
MEDEIROS / LUCAS
L&L#074
Live at Casazul (w/ Isaiah Mitchell, Rodrigo Amado, Shela)
Black Bombaim
L&L#72
Live at Casazul (w/ Isaiah Mitchell, Rodrigo Amado, Shela)
LP Sold Out
Escabroso
Torto
L&L#70
Moon
Flamingods
L&L#69
Moon
HEAT
Glockenwise
L&L#71
Mar Aberto
MEDEIROS / LUCAS
L&L#68
Dreamweapon
Dreamweapon
L&L#67
Carnaval de Natal
Lovers and Lollypops
L&L#66
Carnaval de Natal
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Hightower
Equations
L&L#65
Duquesa EP
Duquesa
L&L#64
Badlav
Jibóia
L&L#63
Badlav
LP Sold Out
Far Out
Black Bombaim
L&L#62
Far Out
LP Sold Out
Mambos de Outros Tipos
Throes + The Shine
L&L#61
Mambos de Outros Tipos
Penelope
Sequin
L&L#60
Hook
Killimanjaro
L&L#59
Black Bombaim & La La La Ressonance
Black Bombaim & La La La Ressonance
L&L#58
Black Bombaim & La La La Ressonance
LP Sold Out
Cabeça
Filho da Mãe
L&L#57
Hot Jesus
Loosers
L&L#56
Quim EP
Gonçalo
L&L#55
Quim EP
Live at Café au Lait
Outravez
L&L#54
Torto
TORTO
L&L#53
Homem Elefante
Riding Pânico
L&L#52
Leeches
Glockenwise
L&L#51
Noções Básicas de Cosmopolitismo Precário (w/ Shrosh Ensemble)
Torto
L&L#50
Noções Básicas de Cosmopolitismo Precário (w/ Shrosh Ensemble)
Jibóia EP
Jibóia
L&L#49
Jibóia EP
LP Sold Out
There's no Destiny... Enjoy the Ride
Mr Miyagi
L&L#48
There's no Destiny... Enjoy the Ride
LP Sold Out
Surya Exp Duo
Surya Exp Duo
L&L#47
Drugs (Single)
Youthless
L&L#46
Rockuduro
Throes + The Shine
L&L#45
Rockuduro
CD Sold Out
Arca D'Água
Jorge Coelho
L&L#44
Arca D'Água
LP Sold Out
Memória de Peixe
Memória de Peixe
L&L#43
Rancor EP
RA
L&L#42
Rancor EP
Titans
Black Bombaim
L&L#41
Titans
LP Sold Out
Frozen Caravels
Equations
L&L#40
Frozen Caravels
CD Sold Out
Lost Gorbachevs / Ti'naites - split
Lost Gorbachevs / Ti'naites - split
L&L#39
Lost Gorbachevs / Ti'naites - split
7'' Sold Out
ALTO!
ALTO!
L&L#38
ALTO!
Unzen Pilot
Unzen Pilot
Unzen Pilot
LP Sold Out
Winds of Revenge EP
Aspen
L&L#36
Winds of Revenge EP
Wooowoooo
Tren Go! Soundsystem
L&L#35
Wooowoooo
Elements to Our Desires
Larkin
L&L#34
Building Waves
Glockenwise
L&L#33
Building Waves
CD Sold Out
Eastriver
Long Way to Alaska
L&L#32
Eastriver
Um dia no Porto
Jorge Coelho
L&L#30
Um dia no Porto
Sold Out
Dirty Glitter
Throes
L&L#29
Dirty Glitter
Sold Out
Computer Says No
Alto!
L&L#28
Computer Says No
Primeiro
Cavalheiro
L&L#27
Black Bombaim + Notourious Hi-Fi Killers
Black Bombaim
L&L#26
Black Bombaim + Notourious Hi-Fi Killers
CD Sold Out
O Olho Torto
Jorge Coelho
L&L#25
O Olho Torto
Sold Out
Hexacosioihexecontahexafobia
Besta Bode
L&L#24
Hexacosioihexecontahexafobia
Sold Out
Chiado Terrasse
Guilherme Canhão
L&L#23
Chiado Terrasse
Sold Out
Melodies to Greet Sunrise and Feed Sunset EP
Long Way To Alaska
L&L#22
Melodies to Greet Sunrise and Feed Sunset EP
Black Bombaim
Black Bombaim
L&L#19
Black Bombaim
Other releases
Other releases
#018 Alto! - See you in Hell Ron!
#017 Quit - Trains EP
#016 Feia Medronho - Pinta Natural
#015 The Astroboy - A Derrota da Engrenagem
#014 DOPO - For the Entrance of The Sun
#013 Lovers & Lollypops - 1 Ano de Bailarico
#012 Veados Com Fome - Veados Com Fome
#011 Frango + Dansse Damaje - Fuentezfuentezfuentez
#010 EYE8SOCCER - Total Fucking Drawkness
#009 Le Jonathan Reilly - The Singles
#008 Dead Man On Campus - CDR
#007 Green Machine - Themes for the Hidebounds
#006 Veados Com Fome - Lobster/Veados com Fome split
#005 Veados Com Fome - Vol.# 3
#004 Veados Com Fome - EP
#003 Sikhara + OvO - Split
#002 Fish & Sheep + Tropa Macaca - Para o Inferno com Eles
#001 Green Machine - Green Machine
Own events
Barcelos, 2010-presenteMilhões de Festa
Since 2010, Milhões de Festa has been taking place in Barcelos (Portugal), the point from which, in more than ten years of history, it build a reputation of being one of the most country's most referential musical event, a space for discovery and encounter with new musical movements and a scenery for dozens of national premieres and memorable concerts. Driven by its eclecticism, Milhões de Festa proposes, annually, a diverse line up composed by national and international artists, a stage that is also a swimming pool, a “taina” are that incorporates the DNA of the region where it operates crossing music and food, as well as a set of musical and cultural proposals that in the city's public spaces, in an attempt to promote a close connection between the festival and Barcelos.
It was also around Milhões de Festa that a movement of musical creation was born, described by some as the “Barcelos scene”. A movement guided by the appearance of a diverse group of new bands and an environment of collaborative musical creation that remains alive until today.
Tremor
(2014-Presente) Tremor is an festival-experience that aims to implement a creative platform in a constant dialogue with the territory and the local community of the Azores, with particular attention to the island of São Miguel, the place where it takes place annually. With music as its ignition point, Tremor integrates a set of concerts that, over five days, occupies theaters, commercial spaces and touristic locations. The hallmarks of the festival are Tremor na Estufa, surprise concerts that are often held in natural and outdoor spaces, and Tremor Todo-o-Terreno, hikes that are accompanied with original and site-specific soundtracks, created to provide a plastic and sonic experience for a specific trail and that culminate in a live presentation surrounded by nature.
Committed to its work with the Azorean community, Tremor has been intensifying, since 2014, its residency program, with a wide range of exclusive creations that relate music to the territory, that activate collaborative creation with artists from the Azores and that involve different communities in the production of unique shows. Examples of this are the regular collaboration with the Rabo de Peixe School of Music and the São Miguel Deaf Association, among others.
S. Miguel, Açores, 2014-presente
Porto e Lisboa, 2008-201420 XX Vinte
The 20 XX Vinte is an itinerant festival that offers an authentic music marathon and non-stop exhibitions. So far five editions were held in different spaces in Porto, Guimarães and Lisbon integrated with some of the initiatives of the most recent European capitals of culture in the country. 20 XX Vinte aims to be an exercise of "State of Art" for contemporary Portuguese culture .
Commissioned
(Porto, 2014-2018)Serralves em Festa
Festival anual organizado em Serralves que conta com várias atrações artísticas desde a arte performativa, música e artes plásticas.
(Porto, 2016-2018)Festa de Outono
No ambiente único do Parque de Serralves, a Festa do Outono marca a chegada da nova estação e celebra a época das colheitas, o reavivar de antigas tradições e costumes, demonstra saberes e práticas ancestrais ligadas à tradição rural, revividos no contexto contemporâneo de Arte e Paisagem que é Serralves.
Há luz no Parque
Os públicos de Serralves podem visitar o Parque à noite nos meses de julho e agosto e conhecer, ou revisitar, percursos, árvores e elementos construídos icónicos, decorativamente iluminados, que transformam o ambiente noturno do Parque numa experiência única de magia e luz.
(Porto, 2016-2018)Ponte Party People
Ponte Party People had four editions (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2015 and 2016) and took place in Braga (Portugal). Held in one of the lungs of the city, Parque da Ponte, the event was one of the first in the region to present a line up totally composed of emerging Portuguese music.
(Braga, 2016)
Les Siestes Eletronics (Coimbra, 2018)Les Siestes Électroniques
Les Siestes Électroniques is a summer event held annually in France that, in 2018, started to have a Portuguese edition in Coimbra. Focusing mainly on electronic music, the event features a line-up of emerging artists targeting not only fans of the genre, but also professionals working in this field. The fact that it takes place outdoors and has free admission makes Les Siestes Électroniques a rare event in the European festival scene.
Mondim de Basto, 2018Salto da Graça
Based in Mondim de Basto (Portugal), Salto da Graça is an event that brings together music and adventure, developing initiatives that, in dialogue with nature, design new ways to discover the local territory and propose a new relationship between live music and natural environment. Canoeing, paragliding, off-road circuits, hiking, cycling and canyoning are some of the sporting activities that are complemented by soundtracks and exclusive concerts.
GROIA
GRÓIA is the acronym for the editorial section of VICE “Guimarães Rocka-Ó-Ió-Ai” and was born from a partnership between VICE and 2012 Guimarães European Capital of Culture. The festival organized concerts of Portuguese bands such as PAUS, Allen Halloween and Moullinex + Xinobi.
Guimarães, 2012Musa
MUSA (2016-presente)
address:
Rua de São Vitor, 143-A
4000-515 Porto,
Portugal