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Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON!

RECORD LABEL & MUSICIANS' COLLECTIVE

About Me

Soopa is a...
Record label:
Established as a label in 2004 in Porto, Portugal, Soopa is oriented around the axis of Jonathan Saldanha (a.k.a. hhy scumclash) and Filipe Silva (a.k.a. The Banshee), with a massive of collaborators.
Our work spans across style and geography, combining releases from local artists with albums by musicians from all over the world.
The common denominator to the label's releases is an endless search for a transformation of reality, placing music at the center of transfixing phenomena, in various complementary contexts such as traditional and contemporary ritualism, subconscious cut-up/free-association, psychedelic mental states (minus the chemicals), or dub as a form of sound mapping; this approach is often made visible in the somewhat hallucinatory artwork for the label's releases and events.
In the 4 years since its inception, Soopa has released 11 titles by local artists such as hhy and Herzbeat Hotel, by transnational collaborative units like Mécanosphère and United Scum Soundclash, or by fellow travellers Spiral Joy Band (USA) and Mathieu Werchowski/David Chiesa (France).
Upcoming in the next months are releases by Porto's omnipresent grindcore drummer/electroacoustic composer Gustavo Costa, in his Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored guise (Soopa's first vinyl release) and by the brutal improv dynamic duo of John Hegre (Jazzkammer) and Marcelo Aguirre (Abominations, Pregnant Testicle).
Soopa's releases are available for purchase from our main website , or by contacting [email protected].


And Soopa is also a...
Musicians' collective:
Before its establishment as a label, Soopa had already existed for some years as a concept bringing together likeminded musicians from the Porto area who, regardless of their aesthetic areas, shared an ideology of exploratory, DIY music-making.
Very quickly, this led to the foundation of a web of music projects, often sharing personnel, ranging from the (un)holy music of Herzbeat Hotel to the burlesque psychedelia of F.R.I.C.S., the dub séances of Mécanosphère and the one-man beat attacks of hhy.
This network, organised in the style of a semi-visible secret society, has expanded into becoming part of a worldwide community that includes collaborators like Raz Mesinai (USA), Ripit (France/Belgium), Sikhara (USA), Ove-Naxx (Japan), Arrington de Dionyso (USA), DJ Scotch Egg (Japan/UK), Alejandro González Novoa (Argentina) and Eugene Chadbourne (USA).
This collaborative spirit is one of Soopa's cornerstones, and it is also pursued through our ongoing activity as event organisers (around 100 concerts in 5 years), featuring musicians from all over the map.
Learn more about Soopa's music projects on our main website .
Join the Soopa events mailing list by contacting us at [email protected].


Below are assorted pictures of the Soopa crew, friends, events, posters and artwork.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/15/2006
Band Website: soopa.org
Band Members: Click on an artist name to visit their website

OUT NOW!!!

Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored
"A Perfect Observer In Random Wounds" SOOP011
7'' VINYL OUT NOW!!!

Upcoming releases:

Marcelo Aguirre / John Hegre
"Live At Adolf666" CD-R (brutal improv)

Çuta Kebab and Party
"Çuta Kebab and Party" CD-R (extra-spicy beats)


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Here is our back catalogue:

United Scum Soundclash
"United Scum Soundclash" SOOP001

Herzbeat Hotel
"Eve Of Wide Island Is Not A Child Anymore" SOOP002
SOLD OUT

Various Artists
"Kix-Shake 1" SOOP003

Hototogisu
"Brooming Mephitic Blast" SOOPA/ESQUILO LS01
SOLD OUT

Wolf Eyes
"Six Arms And Sucks" SOOPA/ESQUILO LS02
SOLD OUT

Mécanosphère
"Limb Shop" SOOP006

Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored
"Success In Cheap Prices" SOOP007/BORLAND BL024

Spiral Joy Band
"Pores In The Porch And Puddles Beneath" SOOP008

F.R.I.C.S.
"Abraço Vivo" SOOP009

Mathieu Werchowski & David Chiesa
"Sharp Claws Cats" SOOP010

Influences: Love, Faith and Evil...

... and Retroclap, Extreme Ethnics, Suncore, Booty Metal, Forced Jazz, Most-modernism, Stadium Improv

Sounds Like:

Silent Block radio show featuring an interview with hhy and a selection from the Soopa catalogue, listen here:
Silent Block Radio August 2007

Record Label: Soopa
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Upcoming concerts by Soopa artists

F.R.I.C.S. at Kylakankra, Setúbal - April 18.The psychedelic marching band F.R.I.C.S. pursues their alphabetically ordered tour of Portugal's district capitals with a concert in Kylakankra, a squat in...
Posted by Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON! on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:52:00 PST

New review of "Sharp Claws Cats" on The Wire

"Sharp Claws Cats", by Mathieu Werchowski and David Chiesa, and released by Soopa, has been reviewed by David Keenan for the November issue of The Wire magazine. You can read the review below: "Recor...
Posted by Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON! on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 09:49:00 PST

Sputnik Day

Sputnik Day Portugal : cosmo-sonic doom, orbital interceptions & mental astronautism 50 years after Sputnik 14-5-6 of October : Porto & Lisbon, PortugalMecanosphere & Semaphore**********************...
Posted by Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON! on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:45:00 PST

some reviews of our releases:

***Mathieu Werchowski & David Chiesa - "Sharp Claws Cats" (free improvisation)"Mathieu Werchowski (violin and viola) and David Chiesa (double bass) offer a set of improvisations recorded in three ...
Posted by Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON! on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:03:00 PST

***pics***


Posted by Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON! on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:52:00 PST

***posters***


Posted by Soopa Label_NEW RELEASES SOON! on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:50:00 PST