Prize for Muvi doc about Gualdino – Swab

O MUVI Lisbon , which runs from Wednesday at Cinema São Jorge, ends tomorrow, Sunday, with the screening of the winning films at the ceremony held tonight at Cinema São Jorge in Lisbon.

The documentary “The Seventh Gualdino Life” by Filipe Araújo, was the winner of the national competition section Musical Odisseias that Cotonete accompanied . The film now record the story of the drummer Gualdino Barros, who launched to stardom as musicians Jorge Palma, Bernardo Sassetti and Dany Silva. International competition in the same section was awarded the film “That Damn es la Vida” by Doris Dörrie, a documentary about the male world of popular music bands in Mexico, an almost forbidden to women world.

In Sung Sonnets category, the winners are “Oblivion” by Paulo Furtado Segadães and Paul (Legendary Tigerman), and “12 Years Of DFA” by Max Joseph tells the story of 12 years of American indie label DFA, linked to bands like LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, Yacht, The Juan Maclean, Shit Robot, and the swab followed.

“This is maybe the place where trains are going to sleep at night, “the We Are Plastic Too, won the National Songs With People Inside, and was an honorable mention to” After December “, the same filmmakers. In the international section Songs With People Inside, “Singing Man” by Sander Van Pavert, won the fiction genre, and “Moving On”, Ainslie Henderson, in animation.

The Audience Award at the national competition, was to “Change of Life” by Pedro Fidalgo and Nelson Guerreiro, a documentary about the musician José Mário Branco, who also accompanied the swab, and won the international competition “Caramba Que es la Vida” , Doris Dörrie.

The jury was formed by Gonçalo Robalo, and Sara Afonso Vicente Alves do Ó (section Odisseias Musical), Rui de Brito, André Tentugal and Savior Martinha (Sung Sonnets), and Claudia Guerreiro Ana Galvão and Diogo Dias (Songs With People Inside).

A close today’s session was aired the documentary Jon Spira, “ Anyone Can Play Guitar “, about (we get the idea), spectacular music scene in Oxford, in the light of bad luck, fate or curses, rare were the musicians who popularized internationally. The big “stars” of the film are Supergrass, the Ride and Radiohead, to the decades of 90 and 80 and most recently the Foals. This work results from 300 hours of interviews.

Of the many testimonies collected among musicians, record editors, producers and experts, the city that immediately associate to quality higher education, is presented to us as “the city of the world with more per capita “and to prove it gets bands presenting talents of more indie and alternative scene, shoegazz and numerous variants of rock stretching back to the 70s and 80s when groups like Shake Appeal arise, Talulah Gosh and The Anyways, all the result of other smaller groups and without cohesion, and they all want to be the target of major publishers, and the MCA was the one who came to be interested in the music scene in Oxford. In the history of the city, are a few names that are presented as places of worship. Of catharsis, of drunkenness, of “maradas scenes”, of communion, of crying, of joys and, above all, dreams

Oranges & amp; Lemons, which closed in 1989, is one of those places that have served as the cradle indie music “made in England”. However, it is the temper of Mack, the manager of the Jericho Tavern, which is given the responsibility of putting on the map of the region and some other parts of the globe oxfordianas bands. At the other end of town, in Cowley Road forbidden to girls who wear Burberry, any alternative space scene had to be born, grow up and show up. The Ride, Andy Bell (who nowadays plays with Beady Eye) was born there, and signed by independent label Creation Records in the first half of the 80 already bet in alternative rock and pop noise without still knew very well that these genres were.

Later on the Five Thirty-are presented to us as “the best live band in Oxford.” The birth of Radiohead and how it took the single ‘Creep’ from 92/93 to become the success it is today, as well as that of Supergrass were some kids need the authorization of the mother to sign the first contract and the be prohibited from drinking in places where they touched, are fun and interesting stories to know.

But the real frustration is the Candy Skins we hold on nearly the entire film, you want them to … heck, we enjoy both your vibe that seems impossible to have such bad luck with. We want them to arrange a solution, someone to put the ears on them, they stick them in a limo and take them to the best record in the studios because they are good … but fate did not like. First were the sounds between publishers (Geffen is presented as the devil in the form of record deal). Then, when their music is starting to make eared and go to America, ready to conquer the world, solve Nirvana released “Nevermind” that would be “only” “disk that changed the history of world rock ‘, with certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and millions of copies sold worldwide. “It was the Nirvana that ruined the career ‘, says playing one of the band members. In 1997, when the single ‘Car Crash’ promises to “blow” across the world, gives the fatal accident of Princess Diana with the press and publishers recommending them to stop promoting such music as car accidents was a very sensitive subject at the moment. “This time it was the fucking princess”, as reminiscent recognize “we seem to have a curse on it.”

The film ends with images of the closure and subsequent demolition of the Zodiac, another place of worship where the mythical bands of the scene Oxford indie met with their fans in such evil frequented area, the Cowley Road. «700 people, it was crazy,” say those who were lucky enough to join on stage the night “Live at the Zodiac.”