NEW RECORD (''Crossing Birds'' CD-R) on FOXGLOVE! 100 copies, hurry up - +INFO
"Crossing birds"(shot mostly with a HP digital photo camera by Marisa Ferreira, edited by Ricardo Fortunato ; the videos show fishermen from Vila do Conde, Portugal, working at sea)
Press photos + album cover
There's something afoot in the sunkissed land of Portugal these days, but it mostly seems to be skimming under the radar. In a country best known for exporting wine and Cristiano Ronaldo, there's also a great deal of fantastic music being made on the edge of the Iberian peninsula. (...) I want to take a brief moment to highlight the band who I think is the best of the bunch. And with that, I give you DOPO.
- Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis
"DOPO oh DOPO come back to earth have we not had tea? Have we lost our look of tired ambiguity that befalls the chastised provocateurs' of the end state of the fading mind? DOPO, please drift us away again, again, again, again........"
- Pelt's Patrick Best
"More on the same label [Foxglove] comes from DOPO, a bit of mystery to me as I've never heard about them before and I haven't been able to track down much info on who they are. I guess that doesn't really matter as long as the results are this pleasing. Echoing guitars, organ, wordless vocals and probably more make up a sound world that is gentle and complex but the overall impression is definitely the one of floating above and about all things spacious."
- Mats Gustafsson (Dream Magazine editor); in The Broken Face blog
WHO ARE DOPO?
DOPO, a collective based in Oporto, Portugal, exists since the last month of 2004.
DOPO began to record lots of things in a irregular basis since then, producing dozens of homemade recordings that would end up on
"Last Blues, To Be Read Someday" (2005), an EP released on test tube netlabel.
January 2007 saw them releasing
"For the Entrance of the Sun", their first album again on test tube and in CD-R on Lovers&Lollypops.
In November 2007, great United States label Foxglove released
"Crossing Birds" album, in a limited to 100 copies edition.
DOPO is still the same thing: the improvised and momentary and expression of a uncertain number of individuals.
DISCOGRAPHY:
* "Crossing Birds" (Album, 2007, Foxglove)
* "For the Entrance of the Sun" (Album, 2007, test tube/Lovers&Lollypops)
* "Last Blues, To Be Read Someday" (EP, 2005, test tube)
Compilation appearances
"All the mountains are dancing; are dancing!" in "Um Ano de Bailarico" (CD-R, 2006, Lovers & Lollypops )
CONTACT:
[email protected]
