Live performance heavily influenced by Portuguese folk traditions, composed of 4 individual pieces and made specifically for Milhões de Festa festival’s smaller stage – Palco Taina. This performance was to fill the break time from the main stage.
The four moments were:
– “Adega Cooperativa de Marte” – droning loops, overlayed with wood rhythms and hook ideas taken from the traditional Portuguese songbook, but never from specific songs;
– “Amigos da Anta” – acoustic percussion, flutes and a traditional big bottle of wine were paraded among the audience, while the artists were dressed with a collage of traditional elements;
– “Psico-Baile” – contemporary interpretation of a traditional dance party, using the same rhythms and cadences;
– “Fação Barulho” – collage of all the previous motifs performed in the previous parts, but re contextualized in electronic dance music.
Tradition is not what it used to be.
“…it’s the small Palco Taina courtyard that is the festival’s true hub. Porto record label Favela Discos take over the stage on Thursday night for our first taste, Os Amigos de Anta, who hoot and howl their way among the crowd, dressed like a cross between a Russian babushka and Spirited Away’s No-Face. It’s a baffling but beautiful scene, the courtyard pocked with benches under the shade of orange trees, a DIY bar selling sangria against the walls of the weathered old Iberian house that flanks the stage.”
Patrick Clarke, The Quietus