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TRIBUTE TO METALLICA
Lords of Doom with Easy Strike at Secondary School D. Pedro V Auditorium, Lisbon, 14/4/2018.

There are people making music and art everywhere: in big stages, in studios, in the streets, in tiny rooms, in the open air. Sometimes talented people are under our nose and we don’t know. What really counts isn’t popularity but the genuine commitment to what we do. Somehow any task done with truthful dedication becomes some kind of art, even if it is a very simple work and the result unknown or hidden.

About one month ago I went to a concert in my school. Two bands were there to pay a kind of Tribute to Metallica: one was a youth band, Easy Strike that played originals and covers; the other was Lords of Doom, a band that plays just to enjoy, though it sounded as if they were doing it for big audiences.

Usually a spectator doesn’t know what will happen in a live show before the real thing, it’s how things are supposed to be. However in this case I was watching for the first time what I had been hearing for about a month before the concert. It happens that I work in the room above the auditorium where the rehearsals took place, so I heard it all again and again. And it was precisely that previous experience that showed me that those bands were taking that concert very seriously.

Surely they were! The final result was a very pleasant experience for the heterogeneous audience that filled the auditorium that late afternoon and evening. There were lots of young people, mainly students but also older people and families with children. I found that atmosphere very natural and warming. Though the sound was quite hard the most part of the show, there was a kind of softness in the air, something that we usually don’t associate with the thunder harsh sounds of heavy metal. Well, there were many kinds of sound. Some say that the most powerful ballads come from the hard and heavy rock area, and somehow they are right, mainly because peace and tranquility may be more totally appreciated after a sound storm.

Congratulations to both bands for their great performances! Here’s my tribute to Metallica but mainly to Easy Strike and Lords of Doom. Keep the good job and the good sounds!

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/events/2032309440389440/

https://www.facebook.com/lordsdoom/

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Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

TRIBUTE TO METALLICA

Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

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Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom, photography by São Ludovino.

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- Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom I

- Tribute to Metallica with Easy Strike & Lords of Doom II

MONSANTO FEST 2017, 7/5/2017

AMOR ELECTRO WITH SIMONE DE OLIVEIRA

This year there’s no Monsanto Fest (a music festival with free entrance, in Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal), but last year there was, between 5 and 7 of May. I saw two concerts and photographed one, the last of the festival ─ Amor Electro with the participation of Simone de Oliveira. The band went through a great part of their most well known repertoire maintaining the quality we are used to hear. Simone de Oliveira was truly remarkable, both when she sang solo and when she sang in duet with Marisa (the voice of Amor Electro). Once again both proved very well that singing and emotions have no age or style.

“Soul music” is an expression long associated with black music and for very good reasons, because that’s the true origin of soul music. In soul music the interpretation becomes as important as the melody and harmony themselves. And the words deeply uttered don’t lose part of their meaning in the middle of the sound. Well, I find exactly the same kind of feeling in some Portuguese music that mixes tradition and new tendencies, but mainly preserving the importance of a perfect mingling between words and music. It’s from that combination that deep emotions arise and stay inscribed in the soul ears. Even if the rhythm was different and the instruments were absent, the soul chord would remain. The rhythm and the musical enfold just add more body and a spectacular dimension to the whole and in a live show that counts.

Neither Amor Electro nor Simone de Oliveira play / sing soul music but the result is similar. Along the last decade, Amor Electro have been mixing tradition and what we may call “electro-pop” in a new way, presenting, for example, some unexpected and interesting versions of Amalia’s fados.

Only a few know the pictures below, now they are public. They are just a glimpse to one more moment in time.
AMOR ELECTRO official site - http://www.amorelectro.com/
AMOR ELECTRO Youtube official channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/AmorElectroOfficial