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Dead Combo is a Portuguese musical band formed in 2002–3 following their contribution in a tribute album to the late Portuguese guitar
player Carlos Paredes
. The album was called Movimentos Perpétuos and Dead Combo played a song called "Paredes Ambience". The band was officially created soon after.
Their debut album Vol. I was released in 2004. Their music mixes fado with spaghetti western
-inspired music (especially the compositions of Ennio Morricone
), jazz, alternative and world music. Both their albums (the second being Vol. II - Quando a alma não é pequena, were released in early 2006 through their own newly-founded publishing company Dead & Company in partnership with Universal Records
Portugal). These albums are very "visual", having strong musical allusions to the underground and inspiring Lisbon of past times, the aesthetic worlds of design, art, and most of all cinema.
Two of their videos highly illustrate this visual music style: Vol. I's single "Cacto" and Vol. II's "Quando a alma não é pequena #1".
Their latest album was published in partnership with Universal Portugal due to Dead Combo's long-time ambition of making their music known abroad. At the time they'd already been interviewed by the website Indie Eye and Charlie Gillett
chose Vol. I as one of the best albums in 2004 and as his Album of the Month in December 2005. He also included a track from Vol. I, "Rumbero", in his compilation Sound of The World - 2005.
Pedro V. Gonçalves produced and played on Mazgani
's 2010 album, Song of Distance, and Tó Trips designed the cover with photography by Rita Carmo.
Portuguese guitar
The Portuguese guitar or Portuguese guitarra is a plucked string instrument with twelve steel strings, strung in six courses comprising two strings each. It is one of the few musical instruments to use Preston tuners. It is most notably associated with fado.-History:The origin of the Portuguese...
player Carlos Paredes
Carlos Paredes
Carlos Paredes, ComSE, was a virtuoso Portuguese guitar player, born in Coimbra, son of the equally famous Artur Paredes. He is credited with popularising the medium internationally during the 20th century, being frequently considered to be the most talented Portuguese musician in the 20th century...
. The album was called Movimentos Perpétuos and Dead Combo played a song called "Paredes Ambience". The band was officially created soon after.
Their debut album Vol. I was released in 2004. Their music mixes fado with spaghetti western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
-inspired music (especially the compositions of Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...
), jazz, alternative and world music. Both their albums (the second being Vol. II - Quando a alma não é pequena, were released in early 2006 through their own newly-founded publishing company Dead & Company in partnership with Universal Records
Universal Records
Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group, and it is now owned by Manny Patino and Michael Jackson, and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...
Portugal). These albums are very "visual", having strong musical allusions to the underground and inspiring Lisbon of past times, the aesthetic worlds of design, art, and most of all cinema.
Two of their videos highly illustrate this visual music style: Vol. I's single "Cacto" and Vol. II's "Quando a alma não é pequena #1".
Their latest album was published in partnership with Universal Portugal due to Dead Combo's long-time ambition of making their music known abroad. At the time they'd already been interviewed by the website Indie Eye and Charlie Gillett
Charlie Gillett
Charlie Gillett , was a British radio presenter, musicologist and writer, mainly on rock and roll and other forms of popular music...
chose Vol. I as one of the best albums in 2004 and as his Album of the Month in December 2005. He also included a track from Vol. I, "Rumbero", in his compilation Sound of The World - 2005.
Pedro V. Gonçalves produced and played on Mazgani
Mazgani
Mazgani is an Iranian-Portuguese singer-songwriter who started playing in Setúbal in the summer of 2004. Shahryar Mazgani's family had left Iran after the Iranian Revolution....
's 2010 album, Song of Distance, and Tó Trips designed the cover with photography by Rita Carmo.
Studio albums
- Vol. I (2004, Transformadores)
- Vol. II - Quando a Alma não é Pequena (2006, Dead & Company/Universal Portugal)
- Guitars From Nothing (2007, Rastilho Records)
- Lusitânia Playboys (2008, Dead & Company/Universal Music Portugal)
- Lisboa Mulata (2011)
Members
- Tó Trips - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Pedro V. Gonçalves - double bass, electric guitar, melodics, keyboards
External links
- Official Website - Dead Combo Official Site
- MySpace page - Dead Combo on MySpace
- Official Blog - Dead Combo Official Blog