The Portuguese Club Makumba, Hause Plants and Holly and the Portuguese-Spanish Ayom perform this week at the Dutch festival Eurosonic Noorderslag, which lasts until Saturday in Groningen.
According to information available on the festival website, Ayom are first to perform on Wednesday night, Hause Plants will perform on Thursday, and Club Makumba and Holly will perform on Friday.
Eurosonic Noorderslag is, at the same time, a music festival and a platform for the dissemination of European music, with conferences and meetings between players in the music industry from all over the world.
In the case of Club Makumba, participation in Eurosonic is carried out at the invitation of the Portuguese public radio Antena 3, one of the festival’s collaborators.
Club Makumba, a project that brings together Tó Trips (Dead Combo) and João Doce (Wraygunn), performed live for the first time in November 2019, in Lisbon. At this concert they performed songs from their debut album, “Club Makumba”, which they had just recorded, but only ended up editing in January of last year, due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Ayom is a Barcelona-based band that brings together Brazilian singer and percussionist Jabu Morales, percussionists Walter Martins, from Angola, and Timoteo Grignani, from Greece, Portuguese-Angolan guitarist Ricardo Quinteira, Italian accordionist Alberto Becucci and Italian bassist Francesco Valente, who lives in Lisbon.
The band’s debut album, “Ayom”, was recorded in Portugal, in 2019.
Holly is a DJ and producer from Caldas da Rainha, based between Portugal and the United States, who has found success outside of Portugal with performances all over the world.
In September 2017, Holly was one of the winners of the Goldie Awards, awards created by the Canadian DJ and producer A-Track and, in March 2018, she performed at South by Southwest (SXSW), a festival dedicated to music, cinema and technology market.
In 2019 and 2002 he joined the poster of the North American festival Coachella.
The Portuguese was responsible for producing eight songs from one of the albums that last year competed for the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album, “Planet’s Mad”, by Baauer. One of the songs from that album, “HOT 44”, was chosen to integrate the soundtrack of the movie “The Batman”, released last year.
Hause Plants are among 15 nominees for the European Commission’s Music Moves Europe Awards, which honor emerging artists who represent “the European sound of today and tomorrow”, with winners to be announced on Thursday at Eurosonic.
An “alternative indie” band, Hause Plants was formed in Lisbon, but its elements (Guilherme Machado Correia, João Simões, Dani Oliveira Royo and João António Nunes da Silva) moved to New York, to, according to the band’s management, “make music and be closer to what inspires them”.
This change resulted in the “Sleeping with Weird People” EP, released in June 2022, which followed “Film For Color Photos”, released in 2021.
This year’s list of nominees for the Music Moves Europe Awards includes, in addition to Hause Plants, Amelie Siba (Czech Republic), CMAT (Ireland), eee gee (Denmark), Goldkimono (Netherlands), Jerry Heil (Ukraine), July Jones (Slovenia), Kids Return (France), Koikoi (Serbia), Monikaze (Lithuania), Oska (Austria), Queralt Lahoz (Spain), Sans Soucis (Italy), schmyt (Germany) and The Haunted Youth (Belgium) .
Among the 15 artists and bands, five winners will be selected, each of whom will receive €10,000 for international promotion. In addition, a prize of five thousand euros is awarded, the winner of which is chosen by the public through an online vote, on the official site of the Music Moves Europe awards.
The awards, which have been awarded since 2004, have already distinguished artists such as Stromae, Adele, Mumford & Sons, Dua Lipa and Rosalía. In 2020, the Portuguese Pongo was one of the winners.
Music Moves Europe is the structure of the European Commission that brings together initiatives and actions dedicated to supporting the music sector.
Source: Observadora
