Aquaparque "É isso aí"

Aquaparque are a kind of recent portuguese musical project (started around the year 2006). The band members are: Pedro Magina and André Abel. It's difficult to label this band, but I'd say their music is more on the experimental / pop side.
This CD was released last year. They received a considerable amount of positive criticism.
The track list is:
1.De dentro de uma baleia
2.Bem bom
3.Ver ao perto
4.Siga para bingo
5.Conte-os
6.Mais lento que a casa dos teus pais
7.Tom de amuo
8.Fantasma
9.Museu de Cera
10.Saúde

-Their main image on their myspace.

My favourite ones are: "De dentro de uma baleia" (which means "From inside of a whale"), "Bem bom" (which means "Really Good") and "Fantasma" (which means "Ghost").
You can get the album here. Its size is around 40 megabytes.


Below is the videoclip of the song "Fantasma":

fantasma from catarina lopes on Vimeo.

[upcoming bands] Mob of God

Fortunately, I got to know this band because one of the members sent me a message over on youtube, saying that he saw a comment I made on a Gogol Bordello video and thought I got a fine musical taste.
Mob of God are a portuguese band that fuses genres like alternative rock, jazz and metal (awkward, isn't it?). They also like Fado (a portuguese traditional musical genre).
The band members are: M.ª João Oliveira on lead vocals; Nuno Tavares on guitar andvocals; Ricardo Penedo on keyboards; Pedro Torradas playing bass; Bruno Gaspar on drums.
Their influences are, according to what they've written on their myspace page: " The flavors of our world - the grunge scene, the metal scene, the blues meet jazz and soul, the 60's, the 70's and early 90's plus world music". Bands that to me they resemble sometimes are: Doors (specially on keyboards and ocasionally on guitars), Jefferson Airplane (specially on vocals) and Shocking Blue (particularly on vocals and kind of similar to the guitars Shocking Blue played on some songs).
Their myspace can be accessed here. To download some songs they offer for free, click here.


Below is a video of one of their songs entitled "Lion of Judah":