Friday, January 20, 2006
The Gift (PT)

The Gift started 12 years ago, in 1994. Today they are Nuno Goncalves, Miguel Ribeiro, Sonia Tavares and John Gonçalves.

Storming the country from Alcobaça, they have released so far one EP, “Digital Atmosphere”, and 3 albums, Vinyl, Film and AM-FM. The most interesting about them is that in the very beginning no label was interested in them, so they decided to release their albums by themselves, with their own financial support. The result was so good, that they stood this way, having only a label to distribute their material.

The Gift are one of Portugal's most inventive bands. They are synth pop and electronica. Songs that grab you from the very beginning, that invite you to dance. Some songs are more mellow, accompanied by orchestra, or simply by a string's quartet, others, pure instrumentals, just with keyboars. Imagine The Divine Comedy meets Portishead, and they all go for a walk with Moby.

Their albums have been produced, so far, by Nuno Goncalves, Howie B and Will O´Donovan. On Tour, they have played with Radiohead, Coldplay, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, The Flaming Lips and James, among others.

You can check now some of their songs right here.

AM-FM

WallPaper

1977

Driving you slow

11:33

Film

Question of love

Butterfly

The difference between us

Vinyl

Dream with someone else's dream

OK! Do you want something simple?

First Chapter

Their albums can be bought @ CD Baby. To go directly to their CDs, please follow the link on the albums' name above.

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posted by SKL @ 4:08 PM  
1 Comments:

  • At 7:29 AM, Blogger Luís F. de Sousa said…

    Alô Romeu.
    Daqui Luís dos MAU.
    É verdade q n temos actualizado nenhum dos sites informativos. Quanto ao blog, está meio abandonado, por isso podes ignorá-lo.
    Novidades em MAU. Tivemos um concerto esta quinta feira no Club Lua, referente à festa de lançamento do myguide.pt (dá uma vista de olhos aqui http://myguide.pt/ecards/index.html) e correu mto bem. Usámos pela primeira vez baterista e o resultado foi excelente (por isso a primeira novidade é a entrada de um novo membro para a banda).
    Quanto ao álbum, tivemos problemas com a primeira mistura e com a masterização, pelo q resolvemos adiar o lançamento e voltar a (pelo menos) masterizar com o "histórico" mestre do som Tó Pinheiro. A produção continua a ser do Flak e do Carlos Morgado (dos Micro Audio Waves). Até ao fim deste mês o álbum estará pronto, pelo que contamos tê-lo no mercado daqui a, no máximo, 2 meses. Há editoras interessadas, mas não pomos de parte a ideia de uma edição de autor.
    Se quiseres saber mais alguma coisa, contacta-nos para mau_project@hotmail.com .
    Obrigado pelo interesse e continua a dar-lhe forte na promoção da musica nacional.
    Abraço

     
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