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«Bittersweetness. Perhaps the word that best defines the nature and behaviour of humans. We are capable of the best and the worst, capable of love and hate, of happiness and sadness, luck and misfortune, we are both bitter and sweet at all times. Bittersweetness is also one of the best qualities that the music of the DOPO collective has to offer. You can find it in all of their songs, and that's what makes their sound so human, so unique. The power to make us happy and sad at the same time. And we wonder: 'how could we not love this? how could this not be part of our lives?'. And it couldn't, because DOPO's music translates into sounds the feelings we have while living our everyday lives. This is our sound.
'Blue Lands' is to be - unfortunately or not - DOPO's demise. After this, DOPO will end but their legacy is here for everyone to discover, and in a way, will live on in our memories. 'Blue Lands' is also the opening track of this release and probably the best song they've done, ever. But this album has some really beautiful gems inside, like 'The Long Red Fires of the Dying Day', the most Animal Collective-y of all tracks, minus the usual freakish beat.
In this album we can also find the most loose DOPO ever, as they used a generous amount of field recordings in the compositions, of which 'Sea-lion of the Sea' is a great example of, and also one of my favorite 'under two minutes' tracks of all time.
You will find as well the usual hypnotic guitar strings all over the album, plus some special moments, like this one in 'A Delicate Turn and Twist' which has a delicious distortion guitar which reminded me immediately of some of Sonic Youth's best musical moments. There's well placed drones in 'A Long Wave of Yellow Light', more 'around the bonfire' oddities in 'The Crowd of Little Men' and... I'm not telling you more. Just download this amazing album and find out for yourself.»
- Pedro Leitão
"CROSSING BIRDS" (2007, CD-R FOXGLOVE)
"Crossing birds" (shot mostly with a HP digital photo camera by Marisa Ferreira, edited by Ricardo Fortunato; the videos show fishermen from Vila do Conde, Portugal, working at sea)
There's something afoot in the sunkissed land of Portugal these days, but it mostly seems to be skimming under the radar. In a country best known for exporting wine and Cristiano Ronaldo, there's also a great deal of fantastic music being made on the edge of the Iberian peninsula. (...) I want to take a brief moment to highlight the band who I think is the best of the bunch. And with that, I give you DOPO. - Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
"DOPO oh DOPO come back to earth have we not had tea? Have we lost our look of tired ambiguity that befalls the chastised provocateurs' of the end state of the fading mind? DOPO, please drift us away again, again, again, again........"
- Pelt's Patrick Best
"More on the same label [Foxglove] comes from DOPO, a bit of mystery to me as I've never heard about them before and I haven't been able to track down much info on who they are. I guess that doesn't really matter as long as the results are this pleasing. Echoing guitars, organ, wordless vocals and probably more make up a sound world that is gentle and complex but the overall impression is definitely the one of floating above and about all things spacious."
- Mats Gustafsson (Dream Magazine editor); in The Broken Face blog
WHO ARE DOPO?
DOPO, a collective based in Oporto, Portugal, exists since the last month of 2004.
DOPO began to record lots of things in a irregular basis since then, producing dozens of homemade recordings that would end up on "Last Blues, To Be Read Someday" (2005), an EP released on test tube netlabel.
January 2007 saw them releasing "For the Entrance of the Sun", their first album again on test tube and in CD-R on Lovers&Lollypops.
In November 2007, great United States label Foxglove released "Crossing Birds" album, in a limited to 100 copies edition.
DOPO is still the same thing: the improvised and momentary and expression of a uncertain number of individuals.
Compilation appearances
"All the mountains are dancing; are dancing!" in "Um Ano de Bailarico" (CD-R, 2006, Lovers & Lollypops)
CONTACT: infodopo@gmail.com
Colocámos mais um tema do "Arquétipos da Alma" em escuta no myspace. É um tema acústico e por isso diferente de todos os outros que compõe este trabalho. Chama-se "Não quero mais" e gostávamos mesmo muito de saber a tua opinião sobre ele. Bons flirts!
Olá DOPO, aparece na Good Vibes Party!!! Quinta 15 Outubro @ Santiago Alquimista
Good Vibes Party!!! Quinta 15 Outubro @ Santiago Alquimista
Ingredientes: Macacos do Chinês + Melo D + Skalibans + Kid Selecta + Camboja + Sessão de cinema com o documentário "Lusofonia a R(E)volução" + feira and visuals by Alatak!!!
Good Vibes Party: O Festão que faz do Outono Verão!! :) Bora lá!!!!!!!!!! Entrada Livre até às 21h30!!!
Sábado dia 10 de Outubro é um dia como nós gostamos. Cheio de movimento. À tarde inaugura a exposição "papel sobre uma mesa" de Nuno Sousa Vieira na SEDE (18.00h.) e à noite é a estreia mundial da produção do a9)))) "Música dos Osso para paisagens de Moçambique" (Teatro Miguel Franco, Leiria, 21.30h.).
DIATRIBES+JOAO PEDRO VIEGA+PAULO CURADO Travessia dos Respigadores freejazz/electroacoustic improv album on TEST TUBE netlabel music under CC by-nc-nd, copy & share it, thanks
Queremos oferecer-te um CD do nosso álbum de lançamento, o “Arquétipos da Alma”. Para isso basta que envies um vídeo para mail.flirt@yahoo.com em que apareças a falar sobre algum tema relacionado com a banda, algum comentário sobre os nossos temas, o relato de algum flirt que tenhas tido ou qualquer outra situação que entendas esteja relacionada com o nosso som.
Por isso toca de pegar na câmera de vídeo, no telemóvel, na webcam ou qualquer geringonça que possas ter à mão, ou coloca os vídeos no youtube e envia-nos o endereço. Todos os vídeos serão publicados no nosso videoblog, em flirt.blogs.sapo.pt
Não te esqueças de colocar uma morada no mail, para onde queres que te enviemos o CD...
CLUB 447 :: back to the nineties! SEX 18 SET @ CLUB GARE
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LINE-UP: 00:00 WARM-UP: 447 DJS 03:00 DJ SANDRINHA 5:00 FULANO47 VS SININHO
Na próxima Sexta vais ao Cais? Ah pois é: dia 18 de Setembro convidamos todos para a rentré do CLUB447, um evento de celebração à mítica discoteca Cais447 e aos primórdios da música de dança em Portugal. Desde a sua primeira edição – no Natal de 2008 no clube Gare, Porto - o CLUB447 tem sido um sucesso desmedido, recuperando a loucura dos 90’s num ambiente inigualável.
Para esta 5ª edição, Fulano47 e Sininho convidam DJ Sandrinha para uma noite despida de qualquer tipo de preconceito: como de costume, a animação está a cargo dos CLUB447 Dancers, sende o Outfit Design da responsabilidade de Carolina.
Prepara-te para mais uma extravagante festança, em que poderás dançar ao som das pérolas mais desavergonhadas dos 90's, no que será com certeza mais uma noite inesquecível cheia de boas recordações...
Se ainda não tens convite, podes requisitá-lo através e-mail club447@gmail.com ou do número 93 932 44 19.
Been enjoying your latest CD -- I'm in on my third listen -- sounds especially good in the car! If you forward your address, I'll get you a copy of my new album, which I should have this week on CD.
100 copies. 5 euros (post-paid - Portugal; Europe and Worldwide soon). Orders: infodopo@gmail.com
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