joaozinho from Daily Misconceptions: programmings, keys, synth; Vasco Furtado from Lemur: drums; Dudu from Loja das Conveniencias: bass; A. Neto from Yellow Bop Records: violin; Pedro Afonso from Norton: guitars; vocals; some claps; Hugo Zuzarte: russian talk; Miguel Fonseca aka Micas: guitars; vocals; some claps; X-man: didjiridoo; Sara Esteves: some claps; vocals; Ez Ayr: vocals; Catarina: baby's talk; Nelas: some claps; chorus; Yonas Sara from Porno's Pictorial Place: vocals;
João Santos: the One who made the record possible!
LIVE:
The Boy with a Broken Leg: vocals & guitar;
Influences
Oxygen, nicotine, caffeine, hormones, surround, daily misconceptions, people, little arithmetics, friends, thoughts and music. Songwriters, Nirvana, J. Kerouac, Sonic Youth, Beck, W.S. Burroughs, The Beatles, F. Pessoa, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, dEUS, B. Vian, F. Dostoiévsky, Daily Misconceptions, W. Wenders, Soul Coughing, Q. Tarantino, Red House Painters, J. Jarmush, Devendra Banhart, C. Bukowski, Eels, Belle & Sebastian, J. London, E. Hopper, J. Steinbeck, G. Orwell, The Strokes and many, many more.
"Itunes' shuffle placed me between Maria Callas and Daniel Johnston!"
BIOGRAPHY
“A boy…a domestic accident…a broken leg…The Boy with a Broken Leg was born!”
Femur, femoral condyle, internal malleolus, astragalus, calcaneum, metatarsus, rotula, tibia, perone, external malleolus, cuboid ... can also be broken bones!”
A violent break of a bone or of a hard cartilage: “We heal the breaks by the immobilization of the offended parts.”
Born in Lisbon, Portugal and raised in a house with a view to the Zoo’s elephants, A Boy spent hours looking at it
Being a typical melomaniac teenager, he started to play guitar very early, first in a classical music school until he joined the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa. In 1999, a domestic accident happened. Listening to music at home, he accidentally kicked the bed and broke a toe! During the resting period he had proliferous days and recorded the first songs in a small and awful tape recorder. Despite the broken toe, he said it was a broken leg and called himself The Boy with a Broken Leg. “It sounds better than The boy with a Broken Toe!”, said he.
The bone then healed and he became member of projects such as Porno’s Pictorial Place, 3Blind Mice and Le Petit Point. At the same time, parallelly, he kept recording as The Boy with a Broken Leg, to pull out his emotions and dreams. Nevertheless, the injury still haunted him and he didn’t know when it would be healed, and thus concluded it was a product of his own brain.
Since then he joined Essay Collective - an artistic collectivity – with whom he released his first issues, and the project Puget Sound. At present he’s not working on these projects, but is working on his own with a lot of help from several friends.
Break a leg!!!
COMPILATIONS
Essay on a Music Catalogue V/A
Essay Collective
EC1-50CDR - JUN. 03 - Sold Out
Essay on a Media Catalogue - V/A
Essay Collective
EC2-50CDR - JUN. 03 - Sold Out
Puget Sound - V/A
Bor Land / Etic / Essay Collective
BL017CD - JUN. 04 - Sold Out
GARAGE ROCK FROM MÉXICO!!! ROCK IN CHIADO - LISBOA - 02 DE JULHO - 23HORAS (primeira parte a cargo dos MAMUTE (ex - Brainwashed by Amalia, Dawnrider, etc) Happy Hour com cerveja a 1 euro das 23h às 00h
boas malta!!! Quando quiserem merchandise (t-shirts, sweats, pins, etc) dêem um salto ao nosso space para ver os nossos preços. Fazemos merch a partir de 3.3€ e temos sempre promoções que vos podem fazer poupar/ganhar mais dinheiro com as vossas vendas! Temos dos melhores preços do mercado e, caso encontrem mais barato, nós igualamos!
To all who have entered or plan on entering my "Bomb Ass Anime Music Video Contest" the deadline is July 4th. See the blog to watch videos already entered and enter your own AMV homes. Thanks a bazilliondey.