aqob

open the jukeboxAqob is my oldest project as a solo artist, and it has no stylistic boundaries - it will always be about a kid with synthesizers. Mostly venturing into ambient and electronica, Aqob just sings what's on my mind.Releases so far include one track on the groundbreaking "Portugal Rebelde" compilation (1994) alongside many other talented portuguese bands, many of which have made it big, others have passed away, while others, like Aqob, made it here!Since 2004, Aqob has been released through Womblabel, a home-based label for home-based artists, and has put his talent to work, composing, creating, compiling... A more or less complete listing of Aqob tracks can be found at www.womblabel.com , there's a lot to choose from, and I believe they'll print any of the back-catalogue CD-Rs if you're interested.Nevertheless, I would advise you to listen to the 2005 mini-album "Let alone be gone", which is something special altogether. It's a "real" CD (not a CD-R), in a very limited edition, and it was produced entirely in our womblabs studio, back in the day.So, there you go! I hope you enjoy the music of Aqob, but feel free not to. Just be kind to animals and trees.THBy the way, many people have asked what "Aqob" means... Well, I don't know either, but when I first looked up my "citizen" name in the dictionary, it said it came from "aqob", meaning "power of the word". I thought "cool", and took it up, 'cause after all it was my solo project, and it was my name... I haven't got much talent for all this naming stuff anyway, so I thought I could only do worse if I tried any harder. Later I found it could also mean "the dear child", and if you google it, you'll get a lot of bible-related entries and other stuff, to which I have no relation... Aqob just makes music.