This is apparently an album of dance music made by a group of Portuguese hardcore punks. That it ends up not really being a dance music album is no bad thing but it's not hardcore punk either. Instead, it's some sort of weird mash-up of truly perplexing proportions as they throw all sorts of noises and influences into the mix. The band's debut album apparently went to number 3 on the Portuguese charts.
On Pontimola they have what sounds like a xylophone playing some Satie that has been overlaid with weird noises and shouty, then spoken vocals and jazz fusion drumming. "Confusing" doesn't come close to describe it.
Bandeira Branca is, as far as I can tell, not a tribute to Glenn Branca but has some nice keyboard drones acting as the base for the rest of the madness to fires off from, plus off kilter guitar noises battling with more out-there drumming so that it comes off like a cross between They Came From The Stars I Saw Them crossed with Blancmange which is of course unthinkable. Nevertheless, this grooves in an odd sort of way.
The best thing I can say about No is "No don't play it don't listen to it," unless you like being driven insane by the noises raging at you and the insistent bass rumble underneath all the keyboard madness and distorted guitar noises. At least it's brief.
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Ambiente De Trabalho is not as ambient as the title might suggest but does sort of revolve and evolves around some sort of strange drum pattern as if we are on a musical merry go round. Every time the drummer hits the ride cymbal, the rest of the band have to go in another direction, so who knows where it'll end up. The only thing I can think of that comes close to this is a track by Tradgard Algarnas on their Delayed album. Sort of Prog-dance.
Primeira sounds like something you'd expect to hear Joey Defrancesco to be playing. It's overly complicated Jazz fusion with prog leanings. Cume is just out and out weirdness; sort of drill and bass goes indie with odd vocals.
From there on, the noise becomes a backwash of odd aural assaults on the mind and body that sound far more like prog rock than they do dance music or hardcore punk. This is out-there music on some very strange drugs indeed.
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