31/12/10
Bons Tempos --- new song/video
"Bons Tempos" ("Good Times", for the Portuguese non-speakers).
A new Branches tune and video by good friend Carlos Oliveira.
It's our way to say to you all: HAVE A BEAUTIFUL 2011.
ALSO ON BANDCAMP
31/10/10
30/09/10
new song: Cool Kids
Branches feat. Carin - "Cool Kids"
Screeching Weasel cover - 2010
Video: Miguel Carvalho
(edit:)
some buzz:
Warren Ellis
Rose Quartz
Friendship Bracelet
Salad Fork
Vai Uma Gasosa
20/09/10
New track, "Vamos"
Friendship Bracelet has a new Branches' track, "Vamos".
Go listen:
http://www.friendshipbracelet.us/2010/09/vamos.html
Go listen:
http://www.friendshipbracelet.us/2010/09/vamos.html
04/08/10
Salão Flamingo
Branches has a new song, "Salão Flamingo", and you can find it in the player above and in:
- "Sunset Grillers", a great K7 compilation released by CGIFriday
- UUUTapes (Friendship Bracelet new label) Summer Sample --- download it here.
01/06/10
we want the airwaves
You should listen to this radio show. Not because they like Branches (ok, that helps), but because they're great.
You should also check Transistor.
You should also check Transistor.
30/05/10
20/05/10
16/05/10
Happy moments
Friendship Bracelet, one my favourite music sites, enjoys "Alto Astral". Check it out.
(update: found also a reference in a nice blog with a nice name)
(update: found also a reference in a nice blog with a nice name)
04/05/10
07/04/10
Ice Cream Dreams
Branches is Pedro from Portugal and his latest cassette "Alto Astral" couldn't have popped in my mailbox at a better time. The weather is turning and this lo-fi pop jam fits just right. Some points I think of calm, breezy days at a beach and other times I think of bike riding on hot asphalt and sweating my nuts off. It's wonderful, really.
Ice Cream Dreams
Ice Cream Dreams
01/04/10
Internet love
some kind words about Branches and Carin's video for "Mar de Março":
http://saladfork.tumblr.com/day/2010/04/01/
http://mstambourine.org/?p=975#
http://saladfork.tumblr.com/day/2010/04/01/
http://mstambourine.org/?p=975#
31/03/10
"Mar de Março" - video by Carin Abdulá
"Mar de Março"
made with copyright free footage and plenty of love by Carin Abdulá
best quality on vimeo: http://vimeo.com/10559446
29/03/10
Words about "Alto Astral" by André Gomes
Branches é coisa nómada. Não nasceu para estar sempre no mesmo sítio. Das gravações embrionárias pouco ou nada resta senão uma vontade retroescavadora de explorar os recantos mais sombrios do som. Mas até nisso algo mudou. Há em Alto Astral, convenientemente editado em K7, um lento mas sentido abrir das janelas para o sol e a luz, um esticar de pé para as areias quentes da praia, um flirt perfeitamente saudável com as batidas e sabores melódicos dos anos 80. Tudo numa estética de corta e cola, do abuso de samples menores (numa colaboração pecaminosa entre Pedro Rios e Miguel Carvalho), de reconhecimento de resquícios de uma pop tantas vezes maltratada e enxovalhada, destinada a acabar nos caixotes de LPs velhos a menos de cinco euros.
Entrar em Alto Astral é também deixar em loop os dez melhores segundos daqueles disco caribenho encontrado no baú do sótão na casa de férias, admitir gostar daquela melodia de gosto dúbio, é descobrir vida a teclados acondicionados para sempre em armários guarda-memórias, é como ver a vida atravessar lentamente à frente dos olhos. Entrar em Alto Astral é ver Branches reinventar-se ao sabor da corrente, de braço dado com as batidas e as melodias que pensávamos para sempre perdidas. Para ver entrar o sol.
*André Gomes
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Branches has something of nomad. He wasn't born to stay in the same place. There's little (or even nothing) left of the embryonic recordings, other than an excavating will/determination of exploring the darkest corners of sound. But even in this something has changed. In Alto Astral, conveniently released on tape, there is a slow but candid opening of windows to the sun and the light, a stretching out of toes towards the warm sands of the beach, a perfectly healthy flirt with the melodic beats and flavours of the 80s. All this with crafty cut and paste aesthetics, an abuse of minor samples (in a sinful collab between Pedro Rios and Miguel Carvalho), and and acknowledgement of the remains of a certain pop, so many times mistreated and rejected, doomed to end up in cardboard boxes brimming with old LPs for less than 5 euros.
Entering Alto Astral is also putting on repeat those 10 best seconds of the Caribbean LP we found in the attic in the holiday house, it's admitting to like that melody of dubious taste, it's finding life in keyboards kept forever in closets up to the top with memories, it's like watching life slowly unfurl in front of our eyes. Entering Alto Astral is seeing Branches reinventing himself while going with the tide, arm in arm with the beats and melodies we thought were lost forever. To see the entrance of the sun.
25/03/10
20/03/10
26/02/10
24/02/10
Branches - Alto Astral - CS - 2010
Branches - Alto Astral by branchesbranches
(SIDE A)
01 Alto Astral (00:00-2:37)
02 Laguna Sunrise (2:37-5:01)
03 Caracóis (6:18-11:26)
04 Cortegaça (14:55-18:44)
05 Vestido Vermelho (18:44-20:14)
06 Palmeira Privada (20:14-23:00)
07 Glória das Ondas (23:00-24:06)
08 Parapente (24:06-26:14)
and some interludes/sampling fuckup in between songs
Samples: Miguel/Branches
dubbed at home, handmade artwork
order, ask for prices/trade: branchesbranches@gmail.com
Branches has something of nomad. He wasn't born to stay in the same place. There's little (or even nothing) left of the embryonic recordings, other than an excavating will/determination of exploring the darkest corners of sound. But even in this something has changed. In Alto Astral, conveniently released on tape, there is a slow but candid opening of windows to the sun and the light, a stretching out of toes towards the warm sands of the beach, a perfectly healthy flirt with the melodic beats and flavours of the 80s. All this with crafty cut and paste aesthetics, an abuse of minor samples (in a sinful collab between Pedro Rios and Miguel Carvalho), and and acknowledgement of the remains of a certain pop, so many times mistreated and rejected, doomed to end up in cardboard boxes brimming with old LPs for less than 5 euros.
Entering Alto Astral is also putting on repeat those 10 best seconds of the Caribbean LP we found in the attic in the holiday house, it's admitting to like that melody of dubious taste, it's finding life in keyboards kept forever in closets up to the top with memories, it's like watching life slowly unfurl in front of our eyes. Entering Alto Astral is seeing Branches reinventing himself while going with the tide, arm in arm with the beats and melodies we thought were lost forever. To see the entrance of the sun.
words: André Gomes
(SIDE A)
01 Alto Astral (00:00-2:37)
02 Laguna Sunrise (2:37-5:01)
03 Caracóis (6:18-11:26)
04 Cortegaça (14:55-18:44)
05 Vestido Vermelho (18:44-20:14)
06 Palmeira Privada (20:14-23:00)
07 Glória das Ondas (23:00-24:06)
08 Parapente (24:06-26:14)
and some interludes/sampling fuckup in between songs
Samples: Miguel/Branches
dubbed at home, handmade artwork
order, ask for prices/trade: branchesbranches@gmail.com
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