Walter Benjamin - "Vocals", cheap acoustic guitar, sampler, percussion, synths and Hohner Clavinet.
Live slaves:
Manuel Dordio - Slide Guitar
João Correia - Drums
Nunão - Bass
Walter Benjamin is a modern songwriter, just like
the Modern Rock Song by Belle & Sebastian. He uses samplers and synthesizers on his songs,
along with a cheap acoustic guitar and a cheap sounding voice. Walter Benjamin was born in the
spring, although he doesn't remember where. After releasing the EP The Dog follows the Bull
(Merzbau, 2007), he spent a whole year recording his first album, The National Crisis. The
record contains twelve new songs written on the way home after disco.
He is a member of the Lisbon based folk collective
Goodbye Toulouse and the "almost rock" band Jesus, the Misunderstood.
ahah! boa vida em digressões estilo "Almost Famous" ao Portugal no Coração. Parabéns pela mostra pública :) tu mereces pelo excelente trabalho e esforço que dedicas à tua causa. Agora, quero um EP novo.. :p Abraço
Talvez seja tendencioso (e que traiçoeira tendência) mas The day the empire falls é mesmo fixe. Os arranjos e as segundas vozes. Eu sou Pop mas se fosse Folk era Jesus. Um abraço. Pedro
Por acaso gostei muito quando te vi no Portugal no Coração da RTP1 mas já conhecia o teu projecto a muitoo tempo, graças ao meu amigo Francisco Torres ai da capital :p. Mas de qualquer forma, digo-te que gosto muito do teu projecto mas que infelizmente nunca te vi ao vivo. Apenas musicas de Myspace.
Boas sir walter benjamin, enquanto escutava as tuas canções surgiu-me em mente, um curtíssimo paragrafo semi-dadaista, ou melhor uma pequena brincadeira, tendo por base os títulos das tuas canções. Se me permites a partilha, cá vai disto…
The man knew he was wrong, since he acted like the lover and the thief, so he left two stones for the luck as life insurance. Because you see, like Jackson Pollack, he knew, that we might never fall in love, and then nothing left but to be as soldiers with a cannonball, forever trapped in the lake of gold near to Paris or anywhere else...
Thanks! Well, hopefully soon! We had a great time there and I would love to go back! I remember when we got there we thought we had died in a car accident on the way and we had gone to music heaven.
