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    Special mention:

    - The Quartet Of Woah! - Ultrabomb. (2012) -- Hard rock/Prog/Stoner.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLD6L8oTixI
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBikOKiFM64

    - Ploffs - The Beginning of an Amazing Journey. (2014) -- Space, Electronic w/hints of Industrial.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JpNotWx7vs

    - Mão Morta - Mutantes S.21. (1992) -- Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Hard Rock
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M6THxdXhTI

    - The Legendary Tigerman - Femina. (2009) -- Blues, Delta blues, Garage Rock.!/!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oiz0A_24D10

    - José Mário Branco - Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades. (1971) -- Psychedelic Folk, Portuguese Folk Music.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzwdYxxhwPc

    More info about this great album:
    http://rateyourmusic.com/release/alb...e_as_vontades/


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    This is actually very cool; a simulation of Tantra doing "Ji" - the closing track off of their classic second album, Holocausto from 1978 - though apparently an original TV recording of the song but donning the studio rendition on top.

    Obviously you can't really relate to how good they were (according to all who saw and heard them) - but you can imagine.



    Portugal was the first Southern European country I visited, in the very same summer of 1978 before commencing my primaries. I was still only six years old and knew absolutely nothing of history, obviously. We were two families who had a habit of vacationing together, but at the time usually by bringing tents on top of our cars onto camping lots in Sweden or Denmark. When the venture of cheap charter trips took on new possibilities for lower-income/middle class-wannabe destitutes like my dad and Hans (the dad of that other family), it basically all started with Portugal/Algarve in 1977-78. Greece was too expensive, Spain to posh as still - but Algarve seemed a place to stay. We spent two weeks in a two-storey villa in Luz Bay, as it was named back then - now known as Praia da Luz (where, incidentally, Madeleine McCann went missing 29 years later). Facilities were highly sparse, with limited electrics and a menu mostly based on thick whitebreads and sardines served daily from straight off the very same beach where we used to go swimming.

    These were only four years after the Carnation Revolution, which of course we knew nothing about as kids. Consequently we didn't understand the slightest thing about why there appeared to be soldiers sunbathing all around the perimeters of the tourist designated areas and even tanks surveying the narrow slopes around an otherwise insignificant town. Shit, the hindsight...
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    Before they turned into Pop... So beautiful (Jardim Terra), remind me the great Perspectiva, another only 2-singles band.


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    Another vintage gem:


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    This PSICO is a killer!
    Macht das ohr auf!

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    ^^^ It is! Too bad they only managed to record that one single.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quantum Cat View Post
    ^^^ It is! Too bad they only managed to record that one single.
    Really that's it?.... Shame....
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    Unfortunately, that seems to be the case per discogs.

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    Unfortunately it is the only single by Psico. Filipe Mendes aka Phil Mendrix, the guitar player, was in many bands, Chinchilas was its first:


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    I run a forum about a turn based strategy game in development . based on the famous Panzer General series.
    But actually the biggest post volume is on the "Concert Hall", the music section.
    As I am from Portugal, some of what I've been posting is of Portuguese origin.
    So, here it is what I have so far from Pt, excluding classical...

    Galandum Galundaina - Folk from the region of Miranda where they use their own language (mix of Portuguese, Castilian and Arabic elements)
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...rra-de-miranda

    Fausto - Singer - author (just started this one)
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/board/286/singers

    Melech Mechaya - Klezmer (jewish non religious music)
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...ewish-heritage

    Marta Pereira da Costa - Fusion (jazz ensemble with Portuguese guitar)
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...rra-portuguesa
    (Carlos Paredes also present was the most famous erudite of the Pt guitar - so maybe very far from rocks and progs but may be interesting for guitar enthusiasts)
    (Or those who may want to delve in the depths of the "Portuguese soul", whatever that means)

    Albaluna and Roncos do Diabo - Just two of the many bands that went on folk inspired journeys.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...eltic-heritage

    António Variações - At the surface we can say his extremely short discography is at best slightly refined pop.
    But the influence of this unique fellow on later generations of Pt musicians (and non musicians) is immense.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...t-nio-varia-es

    Mão Morta - Outrageously bizarre. They span various musical idioms as it fits the individual themes better.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/board/241/morta

    Ornatos Violeta - This was probably pop-rock with very distinctive singing and lyrics. But they do reunions sometimes.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...rnatos-violeta

    Trovante - Following a "revolutionary" phase - we had a regime change in 74 - they produced a few fine albums I'd say of folk-rock, although sometimes it sounds more like folk-jazz. Then their sound grew ever "commercial". (If you have time just for one pick "Baile no Bosque).
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/board/288/trovante

    Petrus Castrus - Prog
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...petrus-castrus

    Quarteto 1111 / José Cid - Q1111 went through phases. It produced some "historic-prog", so to say. Things about historic figures. Not the most usual but Wakeman also did that and I think T. Lizzy's Black Rose is about real characters too. Not sure...
    They also made an album of religious songs, sung by a monk-singer.
    Yes, Cid's solo career has been around 90% mainstream. At a certain point even a thing or two I find of real bad taste. My selection doesn't cover any of that.
    At most I may include a post with a small early pop themes selection, in the future.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com.../quarteto-1111

    Rui Veloso - One of the many "Fathers of Portuguese Rock". So far only posted his first and most important album (opinion).
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...260/rui-veloso

    Sétima Legião - Seventh Legion were the owners of a very distinctive "sound". Not that all songs sound equal. My favorite album is the first one.
    Second and third are almost there as first. At a certain point they made some "techno-folk" experiment (or something) and that seems to have killed the project.
    They use a kind of instrument that, not being unique in rock environments, I don't know an example of being so extensively used.
    But I'm not going to say what it is. It would spoil the utter surprise to those who don't know them yet.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com.../278/tima-legi

    Tantra - Prog
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/board/254/tantra

    Xutos & Pontapés - Punk-Rock that is in this early phase. The only one I included. Later on they became more like "Family-Rock" or something around that.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...9/xutos-pontap

    Maria João - Jazz singer, specialist in scat.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/board/271/maria-jo

    Canto Nono - A capella ensemble. Manhattan Transfer has nothing on them... except international projection...
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com/board/99/capella

    Last but not least:
    Charlie & The Bluescats - Blues - this is my brother's current main musical project. If I'm well updated...
    There were other projects. I remember hearing about "Zappanoia" obviously having to do with Frank Zappa.
    Before that he was in a Rock band named "Gasgania".
    C & TB sometimes performs live a second set made of surf guitar / TV-Movies themes.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...rlie-bluescats

    So, I'd say in terms of pure prog there isn't really a great number of projects to register in history. And even less with discography.
    Those discographies that did appear are relatively short.
    As to other denominations it depends. There isn't much of Blues, probably a bit more of jazz.
    There were and are a good number of Rock projects, considering the demographic base. And the different variants.
    Very much more than the small sample I posted in my repository so far...

    Anyone who may want to search on the subject may start with two tubers I've been "stumbling" on, and on.
    dotempodossonhos
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh5...0Uur5Mo1gbPmYQ
    NekroCoffin and there is a NekroCoffin2
    https://www.youtube.com/@NekroCoffin

    PS: since someone mentioned Moonspell I remembered forgetting to include a post from the "Double Tap" board that includes metal.
    Post contains Peter Gabriel's Intruder followed by Intruso, a cover in Portuguese language by metal band Bizarra Locomotiva.
    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...240/double-tap
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    Link for a 171 tubes compilation of Portuguese rock hits of the 80s and 90s.
    Some of the bands represented are locally well known with historic national radio hits (ex: GNR or UHF), others are less current (ex: ex-votos), and I think I never heard about a few (ex:T-shirts).
    Didn't check it thoroughly, but my impression is that it tends to remain in clear pop-rock territory.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhI...J5a969PR83o08G

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    https://panzergeneralx.proboards.com...as-cora-bouche

    Most recent add on to my musical repository.
    A curiosity, this is a 1981 single made of a pair of rock themes sung by a Portuguese comedian on one of his TV comedy shows...

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