Boris das Beiras, And If?, Mattheiu Ehrlacher- RIJU, Coja, PT May 10th, 2025

I know the guys Boris and Matheiu from the Portuguese Noise rock band, duassemicolcheiasinvertidas. They were both doing solo shows about 30mins drive away so I decided to check it out. I saw Idiotechue play there in April and this place has some serious sound issues but it was ok with just a solo artist and I sat up front as well.  

It is 5€ if you are a member (12€) a year or 7€ if not. There were 12 people when I arrived and they were all having dinner and some had their kids with them. Mostly English people (I think).  There was a big PT football match on TV so they did not expect many people, sadly.  

Boris das Beiras started about 2020 and played about 10 short pieces of music in 45mins. His main instrument is an electric bouzouki guitar (Greek instrument).  He had a table with a small keyboard that he made drums sound keyboard melodies and then he used a guitar pedal looper and then played guitar over the top. He also used a cassette player and mixed in spoken word or used it just to add some effected sounds to the mix. He also had a Roland SH201 that only used very briefly 3-4 times during the set to add some bass or synth arpeggios. He also occasionally sang using some strange octave pitch pedal that made his voice very strange. Very unique!!! I enjoyed it...  

Boris das Beiras

And If? was a performance art piece by the organiser of the show, Bernardo Chatillion. This was very special. He had a microphone and said and did weird stuff and then he played something thru the PA and was crawling around, writhing about or dancing around the room while we all stood in a circle around him. Very special and it takes a lot of confidence to do this. Kudos to Bernardo. This was very creative and strange but everyone was smiling and into it except the kids who thought this guy is really weird and strange!!!  

Mattheiu Ehrlacher (blow my mind until the light becomes sound). He played more or less one long piece in 3 sections as he never really stopped the sound completely.  All his music was made with saxophones, clarinet and voice with many pedals and looping devices. He started off with an amazing 30min piece that just transported you to another world with the deep drones of the baritone sax and then layers of vocalisations and lead sax. It was very intense at times and then it would come down to almost silence and build again. After that he transitioned into 5min piece made only with his voice. He created a drone with some deep vocalisations and then different layers in midrange and then more high pitches.  This lead into the final piece which was more mellow and spaced out and the clarinet was featured a lot more, especially at the end. Wow… A very unique artist. I would love to record his solo stuff in my studio.

  

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