Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Luaty Beirão and Preoccupations in the ten years of the MusicBox – Public.en



The rapper and political activist angolan Luaty Beirão (which is also known by the pseudonym artistic Ikonoklasta), the rock group canadian Preoccupations (ex-Viet Cong), and the English DJ Gilles Peterson are just some of the names that will integrate the poster of the celebrations of the ten years of the life of the space MusicBox in Lisbon, between 1 and 3 December.

The angolan will be accompanied by another well-known rapper and activist angolan, MCK, that if presented in that same space last year, in what was his first service in Portugal in its own name. It is recalled that the aim of the concert, in which participated also the historical Bonga or the singer Aline Frazão, it was precisely the liberation of Luaty Beirão, and of the remaining activists of angola, who at that time were prisoners in Angola.

The spectacle that the two will present on December 3, is described as being "prohibited in Angola," and will be the first of Luaty Beirão Portugal after having been released, he has been on hunger strike for more than a month. In prison, he wrote a diary, which hits the bookstores on the 25th November, and that the PUBLIC pre-published in the past Sunday.

The american Preoccupations will debut in Portugal on 1 December, after being forced to change his name. The band will present their album of the same name, an excellent record rock, with influences of post-punk, resulting in music so physical and cathartic. On the same day to present also the influential English DJ Gilles Peterson, in the company of the master-of-ceremonies Earl Zinger.

in addition To these, Samuel Úria, Moullinex, Fog, Drain Gang, and Shield Gang, Brothers Makossa and Rui Miguel Abreu will go through MusicBox, for the celebration of the ten years that space in Lisbon.

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