Tremor na Estufa is a set of four surprise concerts in surprise locations around the island. To access it, a bus leaves by the tourism Bureau in Avenida Marginal at each day’s schedule sharp. Capacity is limited to the first 52 spectators holding a Tremor bracelet.

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I Love Kuduro, Mário Patrocínio 

What Difference Does it Make?  A Film About Making Music, Red Bull Music Academy.

Tremor na Estufa is a set of four surprise concerts in surprise locations around the island. To access it, a bus leaves by the tourism Bureau in Avenida Marginal at each day’s schedule sharp. Capacity is limited to the first 52 spectators holding a Tremor bracelet.

Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes are two musicians with a well  established career in classical and electronic music, respectively. Their fascination by the interlacing of universes led to an authorial project where the piano is the central element for manipulations and subversions by the electronics. Quest, whose homonymous album was released in June 2014 by Shhpuma, results in a sonorous object somewhere between the exploration and the enchantment.  The meeting of GAMA& FERNANDES at Tremor is possible to a partnership and collaboration with Arquipélago- Contemporary Arts Center, Ribeira Grande

A video visual diary of a stay at S. Miguel, Azores with Festival Tremor as a background.

António Júlio Duarte (b. 1965) is a photographer born and based in Lisbon, Portugal. He studied photography at Ar.Co, Lisbon between 1985 and 1989, and at the Royal College of Art, London UK, as a Gulbenkian scholar in 1991.  His work has been shown national and internationally in  individual and collective exhibitions. His photography work integrates public and private art collections in the most diverse geographies. He’s the author of several publications of his own work including “Japan Drug” (Pierre Von Kleist Editions, Lisbon 2014) and a recipiente of several prizes and scholarships.

Tremor na Estufa is a set of four surprise concerts in surprise locations around the island. To access it, a bus leaves by the tourism Bureau in Avenida Marginal at each day’s schedule sharp. Capacity is limited to the first 52 spectators holding a Tremor bracelet.

Zeca Medeiros is already part of Portuguese folk’s history — and is, still, contributing to the newest chapters with his takes, his songs and, most of all, his unique voice tone, deep as the ocean separating his hometown from the continental Portugal. Medeiros, born and raised in Azores, helped defining new ways for Portuguese culture and the Azorean cultural identity, having composed some of the most important music of the 20th century and sharing stages with the most important artists of folk music. Some people call him the Azorean Tom Waits, but as he’ll take on his town for the TREMOR show, Zeca Medeiros will come out as an essential artist for the Azorean songbook and for Portuguese-spoken music lovers.

Tremor na Estufa is a set of four surprise concerts in surprise locations around the island. To access it, a bus leaves by the tourism Bureau in Avenida Marginal at each day’s schedule sharp. Capacity is limited to the first 52 spectators holding a Tremor bracelet.

Sara Cruz is 20. She inaugurated TREMOR’s first edition. Drummer, guitar player, singer songwriter, she’s played all over the Azores since 2013. Her songs reflect on her experiences with love filled with lightness 
and humour. Folk is her chosen playground to unfold her velvety voice that gently eats your head with tenderness and a shining youth.

After venturing into the most mathematical genres of hardcore, all functions distorted reality and pointed Equations in the ways of prog-rock and its German counterpart kraut. Pinpointing in prog’s heavy riffing, the Porto-based band explodes in various directions, from electronic oriented layering of sounds to psych keyboard-lead harmonies as base to melodic and rhythmic exploration. For TREMOR, Equations take on all the momentum gained during their last euro-tour and subsequent Liverpool Psychfest show to lift us in their arpeggios on acid and take us back to the ground and shake it up.

Don’t jump to conclusions: there’s an actual relation between the Scottish duo and their name, but not in the way people usually think. Happy Meals are not about fast music; their sound only resembles fast food in the sense it is highly synth-oriented, with sweet, playful melodies. It is a delight for both the palate and the mind, exploring senses through music. To TREMOR, Happy Meals will bring their debut LP “Apéro”, sealed with the quality warranty of Night School Records, for a run in the Azores Islands.

Dj7 from the founders of Liverpool International Festival of Psychadelia.

A well travelled, percussion oriented beat maker is set to be a magician on the turntables — but that’s not how O Gringo Sou EU turned out to be. A percussionist involved with the cave dub outfit HHY & The Macumbas, O Gringo Sou EU does not walk the glamourous road of the producer, shamelessly taking the old, dirty ways of rap, sampling from whoever or whatever can highlight his witty, on point lyrics. Live, the Brazilian-born rapper explodes into a burst of energy, bringing joy to the dark paths of hip-hop.

Alek et Les Japonaises are an electropical music duo and a Belgo-Japanese UFO to flake full of french fries!Since 2008, these two electropicalists are shaking the planet!With their surreal toy box, they take you aboard a musical self-deprecating inJapanese, French, Portuguese, ...sometimes in Dutch.Their fresh pop melodies are a mix of electro beats and Brazilian guitar sprinkled 
with Bollywood spices. The costumes of these acrobats make dream the greatest ice-skaters. Alek et Les Japonaises run the alternative scenes as well as hair salons and sports halls. 

Gather a saxofone man and a man of hearts and give them a drummer in trance. This is the return of Luis Senra after a much celebrated collaboration with ZA! in TREMOR 2015 and a successful crowdfunding campaign that exploded beyond imagination, now in collaboration with the man that has created the most obsessive visual public collection of the Azores. We are talking about “mistura”, painting and music as means of interaction to create a performance. Whilst Luís Senra and João Tavares, drummer, create a sound screen that is free and raw, Yves Decoster is the painter on duty that explores a white canvas.

Nuno Cabral plays guitar since his teenage years. He’s a self taught guitarrist and singer which took him to  play in several local covers bands such as Gnosis and Undercover and to collaborate with an array of musicians in São Miguel Island. In 2014, he went back to making acoustic solo concerts and he started composing his own songs having premiered them at Jardim Sagres Fest Festival in 2015. At TREMOR he has a hand full of original material to première and all the will of the world to assume himself as a singer songwriter of his own songs.

The New Planet is the place where Rapeciâz meet as a trio. Through experimental improvised music they explore silence, vibration, noise, abstraction, micro melody and rhythm. Contrabass, piano and synthesizers, Etruscan flutes, tambourines, cello, kitchen utensils, bottles and other daily objects are  the stars of this galaxy composed in real time. Rapeciâz is communication. There is no musical hierarchy, all musicians are soloist. Rapeciâz is free improvisation that goes beyond limits, surpressing egos. Rapeciâz is also the meeting of two italians with Island of São Miguel and the creation of an exploratory landscape.

Sturle Dagsland doesn’t sound to anything we’ve heard before. Hailing from Norway, he carries madness in its purest state, audienced divided between enchantment and the uncanny and concerts that look like a wild and brutal apocalypse. The music is progressive and dominated by a voice without 
restrictions that varies from ferocious screams to angelical virtuous chants guided by a visceral and adventurous performance. His music has taken him to the mountains of Norway, abandoned factories in Russia, legendary sovietic ships in Eastern Europe, concentration camps in Germany, a lightouse in the North Sea and to singing with wolves in excursions led by dogs in the end of Greenland.

King John is Antonio Alves’ alter ego for his endeavors as singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Through Blues & Rock his songs are both energetic and sentimental always displaying a fresh sense of honesty  that carries a whole history of rock in its influence.

In Kobaïan, the band Equations is directed on stage by music producer (Ghuna X, Live Low). He assumes the figure of the Maestro in a performance that reveals the orchestral setup and denounces the compositional systems: sound painting, extended techniques or the counterpoint; stylistical forms of freejazz and classical music. Kobaïan is a reference to a fictional language created by influential French troupe Magma.

Introducing Rafael Carvalho is introducing the world the singularity of the traditional Viola da Terra. The viola of the two hearts, the sister of viola braguesa, the viola of the Azores per excellence.  Carvalho is currently one of our most talented musicians. Master, musical director, cultural producer, composer and writer, he’s the living standard bearer of the instrument. He’s performed throughout the Azores, nationally and internationally in several different formations. “Origens” is his first moving and memorable record, followed by last year’s “Paralelo 38”. His performances are filled with dialogue about Viola da Terra, its context and symboligy, through demonstrations of the traditional musical repertoire, but also of his own compositions . He always dares to show the potential of the instrument and cativate new audiences.

Barcelona was always known for its rich cultural outputs, and for the way it engages the locals and awakes in them the desire to create. Sara Fontán, a violinist, performance artist, music teacher, and activist embodies the Catalonian artistic spirit in the different disciplines she uses to communicate, being improv her first language.

El Salvador have no relation with the country besides his natural, almost tropical heating system that provides him with the some of the best tunes for the hips and the hearts of the unaware. The Lisbon-based singer-songwriter defies all rules related to drummer, taking the spotlighy away from the less glamourous skin corner of rock concerts and interrupting a tradition dating all the way back to the stellar days of Ringo Starr. No one would say “Not you, Salvador”. No one.

Having collaborated actively with Lisbon-based artists Filho da Mãe and JIBÓIA, and integrated bands as diverse (and good) as Adorno, Lobster, Asneira, Papaya and Cangarra, Ricardo Martins is more than a proven prodigious drummer. And that’s what he’s set to do: adding yet another credential to his vast CV, one solely constructed with his endeavors on instrumental music with sampling, synths and drumming, joining organic in digital in a surprising sound trip. 

A well travelled, percussion oriented beat maker is set to be a magician on the turntables — but that’s not how O Gringo Sou EU turned out to be. A percussionist involved with the cave dub outfit HHY & The Macumbas, O Gringo Sou EU does not walk the glamourous road of the producer, shamelessly taking the old, dirty ways of rap, sampling from whoever or whatever can highlight his witty, on point lyrics. Live, the Brazilian-born rapper explodes into a burst of energy, bringing joy to the dark paths of hip-hop.

Spank Lord are a stoner rock azorean portent. There is the most powerful guitar of this archipelago and its surroundings. There is Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet and the troupe that gathers the notch of the local hard n’ heavy scene. No kidding. There is the mastery of BOMBS AWAY!, the red record written with an astounding power. After many cocnerts, two videoclips, TREMOR is obviously their stage. For who knows what we’re saying when we speak of power, then get ready because Spank Lord bring new songs to their setlist.

Killimanjaro have it all in the name: it’s the title of a mountain with the witty “kill” looking you in the eyes and that’s exactly what to expect from the Northern Portugal trio, hitting hard on stoner riffs, heavy metal hooks and colossal non-stop rhythms. These three kids bring the pop formula to the heaviest most urgent of sounds, elevating toughness with a touch of sweet chorus deeply influenced by hard rock. They’ll get on your head and start headbanging it in no time. Mark our words.

Julianna Barwick found a way straight to our hearts in just a note of her velvety voice, in the simple yet sure way she strikes a chord, in the way she elevates pop to a new, entirely unique realm of uncharted fairness. Barwick will clash with the natural and breathtaking beauty of São Miguel in an intimate, unique and unrepeatable show at TREMOR where the American artist will showcase her latest releases, the full-length Nepenthe and the latest Rosabi EP.

ZA! are fast and furious, and play rock, jazz, electronica, afrobeat, noise and everything fitting their “post worldmusic” witty label. It’s the hardest duo  in the world to describe, since they’re all over the place, being awesome in so many different levels. They’ve proved it last year with their latest opus "Loloismo", with their performance in TREMOR and they’ll do it again this year, this time getting more involved with the locals. Papa Dupau and Spazzfrica EHD will play both solo and in a collaborative effort with the Music school of Rabo de Peixe, preparing a show in artistic residency leaving yet another mark in São Miguel. The Music School of Rabo de Peixe intends to contribute, through music, for the development of children and youngsters at Rabo de Peixe village. They carry a pionner project of music training in jazz, teaching several instruments and a choir who’s performed widely. The Music School is currently residente at Cine Teatro Mira Mar in Rabo de Peixe.

After his first endeavor in electronic music as Astroboy, a solo explorer of 0 and 1 and a collaborator of avant-garde outfit la la la ressonance, Braga-based Luís Fernandes is now Landforms, a more cerebral and semiotic approach to music, texture and all the imagery related to the infinity of a scientific take on sound. His debut LP, Decay, is out now on portuguese label PAD and serves as perfect sample of the highly intelligent way Fernandes’ makes sound for our minds and music for the computer’s soul.

Rui Carvalho started as a post-hardcore guitarist, but it wasn’t too late when the classic guitar started to grow on him. As Filho da Mãe, the Lisbon-based artist plays as someone deserving his name — which roughly translates to “son of a gun”, the jealous kind of gun: his virtuoso melodic approach is hauntingly beautiful and undeniably touched by the punk urgency of getting things done. Each of his songs embody a perfect balance between rapid melodic outburst and moving chord progressions.

Alek et Les Japonaises are an electropical music duo and a Belgo-Japanese UFO to flake full of french fries!Since 2008, these two electropicalists are shaking the planet!With their surreal toy box, they take you aboard a musical self-deprecating inJapanese, French, Portuguese, ...sometimes in Dutch.Their fresh pop melodies are a mix of electro beats and Brazilian guitar sprinkled 
with Bollywood spices. The costumes of these acrobats make dream the greatest ice-skaters. Alek et Les Japonaises run the alternative scenes as well as hair salons and sports halls. 

Jonathan Saldanha is one of the foremost electronic producers emerging in the interesting Porto-scene. With roots in jazz, dub as method and under the HHY moniker, he and the Macumbas heavily rhythmic ensemble explore the bleakest sides of texture in frequency. Complex, but amazingly immediate to get drawn into, the group perfectly merges electronic, layered and modulated sounds with organic percussion and mad haunting bass grooves.

If we have to introduce you to Black Mountain, then you’re welcome — their sound has been expanding through space and time as one of the best cosmic-sounding rock bands in recent history, having the Vancouver-based band balanced hipnotic melodies with headbanging riffs channeling the Iommi-deity from chord to chord. Black Mountain are now back on the road after too many years of stoping, and ready to rock our brains out and, in TREMOR, to shake the hell out of earth.

Nothing resonates peace as much as collaboration between drone specialist anda raga channelers from Chicago Bitchin’ Bajas and the most soothing voice of revered singer-songwriter Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. The result is mesmerizing, and almost ritualistic, creating a world where Will Oldham’s voice is a guiding light. You’ll see it in São Miguel, and hear it in their debut record.

SUUNS bring color to sound, imbuing each groove, each guitar phrase with the right amount of psych infused effects and simulating the smoothness of trance  in each cleverly articulated song. Their ways around the non-obvious has taken various forms throughout colab efforts and solo endeavors, always with the same shapeshifting mark of the an other worldly and unmistakable approach to melody, noise and rock tunes. Get your controls ready, for in TRMEOR will set them to the heart of SUUNS.

Even a stopped clock is right at least two times a day. In a lifetime, both Filho da Mãe and Ricardo Martins have merged in joint ventures Asneira and I Had Plans. Years have gone by and both musicians still roamed two different roads that now get both of their clocks in sync: one guitar and a drum-kit in raging explosion of prodigious musicianship and truly experimental musical and rhythmic endeavors.

TIO is a project led by Nuno Pereira and an absolute  live première at TREMOR. A band made of a community of musicians. A band guided by a voice that toggles between whisper and sliding the vocal cords. A band from São Miguel that performs in the borders of style and probability. TIO can sound like Tool, drum n’ bass grunge, cinematic rock, experimental blues and carry the visual of an acoustic punk machine. TIO has no trail and improvisation is also a way to move forward.

SWIFT TRIIGA throws words into a precipice. He hails from Ponta Delgada and he’s our connection to SANDRO G, known as the father of Azorean hiphop with whom he regularly performs in the US. Beatmaker, ar-ti-cu-la-ted tongue and MC to the surface, SWIFT is addicted to  fit the flow into a beat because it’s in hiphop he finds the oxygen to face the hardships of the days. For him, hiphop is a means to overcome, motivate and leave behind what belongs to the past. Seeing him live is facing one of the most prolific voices of Azorean hiphop to whom crossing a beat is the road to follow a dream.

ZA! are fast, are furious, play rock, jazz, electronica, afrobeat, noise and everything fitting their “post worldmusic” witty label. It’s the hardest duo  in the world to describe, since they’re all over the place, being awesome in so many different levels. They’ve proved it last year with their latest opus "Loloismo", with their performance in TREMOR and they’ll do it again this year, this time getting more involved with the locals: Papa Dupau and Spazzfrica EHD will play both solo and in a collaborative effort with children’s school of Rabo de Peixe, preparing a show for the days preceding it and leaving yet another mark in São Miguel.

DJ Quesadilla is a usual on all things Lovers & Lollypops related. Resident DJ in Milhões de Festa, the Braga-born and Lisbon-based DJ prepares each set like a he’s serving an army: Brazilian tropicália proteins, dry rhythms from Africa, scented spices from India and a drunk touch from Turkish psychedelia. There’s no telling where Quesadilla stops — as far as we know, he never does.

DML is the moniker for Terceira Island’s rapper Dárcio Fonseca. In 2009, he launched his first mixtape “Caminho a Seguir”. The feedback was so encouraging that he went on with "D.A.R.C.I.O.", "O Meu Regresso", and a mixtape in collaboration with rapper Janai. His words hold his biography, experience, head and heart. Rapping is the strength that connects the pieces with flow and rhyme, and a strong sense of intervention and hope wrapped in beats that assemble different influences.

Liverpool rock outfit Clinic face the doors of perception like any wise man would: pop melodies with a hook and totally lost in keyboards. It’s never about just the music, but rather about how many layers of music you can listen to in each song, and each sensation they trap in it. Clinic are not about reinventing the wheel — they just let it roll, non-stop until burning out.

Os Capitão Fausto assumem o mito do demónio em forma de psicadelismo descontrolado, numa expressão portuguesa com o sotaque internacional da guitarra embebida em psicotrópicos e o gingar típico da poluição de britânica no baixo, que dava cadência tanto aos Pink Floyd quanto aos Beatles. É, aliás, nas incontáveis possibilidades destes pilares rock que os lisboetas se desdobram, sempre com os controladores bem orientados para a psique. Preparem as sinapses, graças aos Capitão Fausto ainda vão poder interiorizar novas dimensões da idílica paisagem açoreana

Fred Cabral hails from Ponta Delgada. He entered hip hop through Grafitti and rap. Firstly a tagger, he then found in rhymes his means to write about life. “La Revolucion” and “Somos Um Só” are 2 of his mixtapes that include internet’s anthem “Guerreiro Insular”, filmed in a desolate mythical and abandoned Monte Palace hotel. He’s perfomed both in the Islands of Terceira and São Miguel, but it is the internet that holds for him a cult of followers pulled by his power of delivery in denouncing what should not be said.

Dj7 from the founders of Lost Tapes Records

Starting off with a siamese drum kit, where one kick joints two differents sets, PAUS were always about the immediate, and still feel like it — energetic, engaging and defying. Their take on music sets on the grey area between rock and electronica that attack both legs and brains in one’s body. For TREMOR the Lisbon-based band will bring their third record, “Mitra”.

Marco Meneses is the man behind the site RUSHRAP, main internet promoter of Azorean hip hop and hip hop culture in Portugal and the world. This man is a true community creator and a booster of the regional scene. Today he deejaus after accumulating hundreds of cd’s and 25 years listening to rap. As DJ RUSHRAP he’s played in the main stages and festivals of Terceira Island to share his “Original CD Rush Rap Library” full of classic that only an expert accesses. Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Dr. Dre, Run DMC are definitely pearls to  shake your skeleton to.

Dan Deacon brings melody, harmony and rhythm to the pop level, just to throw it again to the back with bright, saturated colors in modulation. Each of the producer’s performances leaves the necessary bruised senses, mangled up in hyper-stimulating, engaging songs.

SONJA (Sónia Câmara) is a DJ and activist based in Lisbon. A plural artist, besides LABAREDA, her own label, she belongs together with Just Jaeckin, Citizen Kane and CVLT (Discos Capablanca) to FUNGO, a platform of musical and cultural intervention built around the most experimental and underground scene of Lisbon. She’ s not and will never be your standard DJ, darlings. Sonja is spontaneous, intimate, performative and suprising. LIsbon has seen her play in our most importante clubs and she’ s currently a host at Rádio Quântica. SONJA marks TREMOR’ s very first curatorial collaboration with much celebrated local Walk&Talk Arts Festival.

Doni lives in several neighbourhoods and for each place he holds a different name. Out here, yeah right here his name is Doni. In Arroios (Google it) is MITRIATES. In Terreiro do Paço or Coliseu do Porto, is half BANDIDO$ and half “marca pistola” (Ok, Google again!). Let’ s cal him Doni to make things easier. Doni is an ex-football player that never managed to attain any success. He then turned to music. Since he couldn’ t play any instruments, he had no other option than being a DJ. Voilá! He gets horny on a dancefloor where he prefers much dancing  and little talking. He’ s friends with everyone but house and techno are daily companies of his choice. Don’ t be surprised if he comes up with german and portuguese EDM. He has nothing against mp3but he collects vynil. At age 37, he just started learning the drums.