Tó Trips, accompanied by João Doce, will present his project «Guitarra Makaka» in a concert scheduled for Saturday, December 15, at 22 pm, at the Casa do Povo of Santo Estêvão, in the interior of the municipality of Tavira, closing the 00 edition of the 'Autumn evenings' cycle.
Live, on his way to take the «Guitarra Makaka» around the country, Tó invited and built an accomplice and exciting show with the percussionist João Doce, renowned Angolan musician residing in Esmoriz, Aveiro, widely (re)known as a member of the Wray Gunn and collaborator of The Legendary Tigerman.
With this show, the programming cycle “Sirons of Autumn 2018” ends. «These were unforgettable nights, of great empathy/attunement between the musicians and the very public that traveled to the interior of the municipality of Tavira, to Barrocal. Several shows were sold out», stresses José Barradas, responsible for the organization.
In such a way that «the goals were largely surpassed, artistic and production quality, proposals in the low season, decentralization, networking, cultural mediation, and taking people, through programming, to this small village, which, on the other hand, way they would never go there,” he adds.
Tó Trips is co-founder of milestones in recent national music, such as lulu blind ou dead combo, and member of the final phase of Santa Maria Petrol in Your Womb, released, in 2009, his first solo album, 'guitar 66', by Mbari, effusively received by critics.
Record of raw, open, generous, nomadic music, fits the clues and materialization that Trips already gave us. dead combo. The meta-fado of Paredes, the music of ghosts from the Lisbon bohemian, the Cuban tradition as seen by Marc Ribot, the more lyrical side of the spaghetti western by Ennio Morricone or the Ibero-Arabic encounter of flamenco, leaving us with a language that weaves together all these vocabularies and makes it their own language, real as only the truly good and honest can be.
Guitarist of the melancholic and luminous, he transforms into sound a man who is deeply Portuguese, fascinated by travels – real, internal, imaginary and impossible.
In 2015, he returned with the new album “Guitarra Makaka – Dances to an Unknown God”. And once again Tó doesn't allow himself to be tied to formulas, despite having a particularly distinct style on the guitar.
That is, the appearance of a new solo album is due, above all, to the need to document the development and exploration of a new language. More specifically, the Resonator guitar, with its metallic cones naturally extending the sound and roots associated with icons such as Tampa Red or Bukka White.
Not that Tó here pretends to be someone he's not – in fact, further from the Mississippi Delta blues it couldn't be. After all, his interest in the tradition will only be for what – in the real sense of the term – it has the most primitive. That is, his project is effectively the pursuit of what, strictly speaking, in the steel ropes, never existed anywhere.
Hence, he uses the allegory of the “imaginary island”, although he also works towards evoking specific memories. Basically, there is nothing more to be said about a song that knew how to make isolation a fortress and independence the best it has to offer.
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