Amplificasom: 9 anos/ 9 years

Photo by Maria Louceiro

Photo by Maria Louceiro

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A Storm of Light | Acid Mothers Temple | Alhousseini Anivolla | Altar of Plagues | Aluk Todolo | Amenra | Anathema | And So I Watch You From Afar | Arthur Doyle | Atillla | Azevedo Silva | Bardo Pond | Barn Owl | Before the Rain | Ben Frost | Bill Orcutt | Black Bombaim | Black Bombaim & La La La Ressonance | Black Shape of Nexus | Body/Head | Bohren & Der Club of Gore | Boris | Bosque | Bossk | Bruce Lamont | Capricorns | Caspian | Casumi | Catacombe | CB Murdoc | Celeste | Chang Ffos | Chelsea Wolfe | Circle | Circle Takes the Square | Comity | Conan | Converge | Cough | Crushing Sun | Cult of Luna | Cuzo | Dark Castle | Dead Neanderthals | Deafheaven | Decapitated | Desire | Dirge | Don The Tiger | Downfall of Gaia | Drumcorps | Eagle Twin | EAK | Earth | Emeralds | Enablers | Endless Boogie | Ephel Duath | Eugene Robinson | Evangelista | Eyvind Kang & Jessika Kenney | Filho da Mãe | Franklin Pereira | From the Bogs of Aughiska | Fuck Buttons | Fujako | Full Blast | Full of Hell | Future Islands | Galvano | Glenn Jones | Glockenwise | Gnaw Their Tongues | God Is An Astronaut | Godflesh | Godspeed You! Black Emperor | Grave Pleasures | Greg Haines | Grey Daturas | Growing | Gustavo Costa | Hayvanlar Alemi | Headstone | Helms Alee | Hessian | Hexis | HHY | HHY & The Macumbas | Homem em Catarse | Huata | Humanfly | Icos | Indignu | ISIS | James Blackshaw | Jesu | João Filipe & Henrique Fernandes | Jorge Coelho | Josef Van Wissem | Josué, O Salvador | Jucifer | Juseph | Juseph vs MOASE | Kadavar | Katabatic | Kayo Dot | Keelhaul | Ken Mode | Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love | King Dude | KK Null | Kongh | Kylesa | L’Enfance Rouge | L’ocelle Mare | La Ira de Dios | Lair of the Minotaur | Larkin | Lazer/Wulf | Lehnen | Lichens | Löbo | Lobster | Long Distance Calling | Mantar | Maria Minerva | Marissa Nadler | Master Musicians of Bukakke | Matana Roberts | Maybeshewill | Memoirs of a Secret Empire | Men Eater | Menace Ruine | Meshuggah | Metz | Michael Gira (Swans) | Miguel Prado | Minsk | Missing Dog Head | Mission of Burma | Monarch | Monkey3 | MONO | Moon Duo | Mother’s Cake | Mouth of the Architect | Mugstar | Nadja | Nate Hall | Necro Deathmort | Nimai | Nisennenmondai | Noveller | Nu Sensae | Oathbreaker | Oblique Rain | OM | Oneida | Orthodox | Osso | OvO | Oxbow Duo | Pallbearer | Part Chimp | Pelican | Perrine en Morceaux | Peter Broderick | Peter Brotzmann & Steve Noble | Pg. Lost | Pharmakon | Phase | Pombagira | Process of Guilt | Putan Club | RA | Revok | Rise & Fall | Rorcal | Ruins Alone | Russian Circles | Saade | Scott Kelly | Scott Kelly and The Road Home | Secret Chiefs 3 | Sektor 304 | Shellac | Shining | Shooting Spires | Sic Alps | Six Organs of Admittance | Solar Flare | Stearica | Stephen O’Malley | Suma | Sun Araw | Sungrazer | Sunshine Parker | Suzuki Junzo | Swans | Syndrome | The All Star Project | The Firstborn | The Ocean | The Orange Man Theory | Thee Silver Mt. Zion | These Arms Are Snakes | This Will Destroy You | Thisquietarmy | Tiago Sousa | Tim Hecker | Tom Carter | Torto | Treha Sektori | Ufomammut | Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats | Utopium | VVOVNDS | White Hills | Wiegedood | WIFE | William Basinski | Witchburn | Without Death Penalty | Wolves in the Throne Room | Wolvserpent | Wooden Shjips | Wovenhand | Year of No Light | Yob | Zatokrev | Zeni Geva | Zola Jesus | ZU | 10000 Russos

10 de Novembro de 2006. Parece que foi ontem. 9 anos passaram; é mesmo muito tempo, tanto que algumas destas bandas já não existem, outras ainda se iam formar e algumas das salas onde estes eventos tiveram lugar desapareceram. No entanto, o tempo não importa quando o único relógio que temos no pulso faz o tic-tac não em segundos, mas em momentos. E esses, vividos com a paixão que ainda hoje nos conduz, foram muitos e muito bons.

Venham mais 9? Numa área tão incerta e difícil os planos não podem ser feitos com tanta antecedência. Mas, em dia de aniversário, duas coisas prometemos: a primeira é que nunca perderemos a nossa identidade nem a nossa forma de estar – as bandas e o público serão sempre a nossa prioridade; a segunda é que 2016, o ano que marca a primeira década, é para ser celebrado do início ao fim e será incrível. Dito isto, a próxima newsletter da nossa/ vossa Amplificasom dará arrepios.

Parabéns e felicidades para todos nós.

Até breve*

Photo by Rui Oliveira

Photo by Cláudia Andrade

November 10, 2006. It seems like yesterday. 9 years have passed; it’s a really long time, so much that some of these bands no longer exist, others were yet to be formed and some of the venues where these events took place have disappeared. However, time does not matter when the only clock we carry ticks not in seconds, but in moments. And those, lived with the passion that still leads us, were many and unforgettable.

9 more to come? In an area so uncertain and difficult, plans cannot be made so far in advance. But, on this special day, we have two promises: the first is that we’ll never never lose our identity and our way of being – the bands and the audience will always be our priority; the second is that 2016, the year that marks our first decade, is to be celebrated from start to finish and will be amazing. That said, the next newsletter of our/ your Amplificasom will give you the chills.

Congratulations and all the best to all of us.

See you soon*