Richie Campbell, That's How We Roll

   I hope you enjoyed the last 5 posts of Surf Locus about our Road Trip to Vicentina Coast and Algarve, Portugal 2013. There will surely be more posts at Surf Locus about travelling and experiencing the world.

   Recently I found this amazing blog about a couple that has been doing a Surf Trip around the World for 1 year and a half. Lately I have been thinking about doing the same and this comes as a great inspiration. Take some time to read Surfing Around the World blog!

  Today I want to show you a very good Portuguese Reggae Musician, Richie Campbell. With two albums released he is one of the most well-known Reggae musicians of Portugal.

Richie Campbell, photo taken from www.ctt.pt

  Playing with 911 band, considered by many to be the best Portuguese Reggae "Backing Band", Richie Campbell already collaborated with well-know international Reggae Musicians like Anthony B. and Kymani Marley.

  Check out this great music from Richie's second album "Focused", recorded in Jamaica:

  I specially enjoy some musics that Richie Campbell produced with Dengaz, a Portuguese rapper. Check out this great song:

  Lastly, let me share with you a song from Richie's first album "My Path":

  I hope you liked this great Portuguese, please follow this link to his Spotify profile. This is the great quality of Portuguese Music, That's How We Roll. 

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Frankie Chavez, the Portuguese "One Man Band"

  Hello, last Tuesday I present to you two Portuguese bands, "Capitão Fausto" and "Salto, both singing in Portuguese. Today I want to share with you a more international Portuguese Artist, Frankie Chavez.

Frankie Chavez. Photo taken from www.row-one.org

  Frankie Chavez plays beautifully Blues/Folk music in a style "One Man Band", just like the well known Xavier Rudd. His style is unique among the Portuguese music as he mixes different guitars, tunnings, pedals and drums. His style is truly amazing as he also play Portuguese Guitar, used in Fado (Portuguese music genre). Thus, combining with Blues music, create a wonderful musical experience.

  Frankie Chavez has also a close connection to Surf. He created the Official Song for the Rip Curl Pro Search Peniche 2009. This was the first time that the ASP World Championship event was at Supertubos, Peniche, Portugal. The Rip Curl Pro Search was an event that was in a different location every year. The organization and the professional surfers of the ASP enjoyed so much the event that they decided to move it permanently to SuperTubos. Let me show you that amazing music, entitled "The Search":

  In his music, Frankie Chavez also uses Slide Guitar and Lap Steel. Come one!, the man uses a thousand musical instruments, his songs are just awesome!

 Do you know the biggest wave ever surfed? At 2011, Frankie Chavez composed and co-produced the soundtrack for the documentary "The North Canyon Show", showing the Hawaiian Garret Mcnamara surfing the HUGE waves of Nazaré, Portugal.

Awesome photo of Garret Mcnamara surfing a HUGE wave at Nazaré, Portugal. Photo taken from imgace.com

  Let me show you another two songs of Frankie Chavez. Notice the complex and beautiful melody of his songs. The second is a cover of Pixies song "Hey!":

  If you want to know more about Frankie Chavez and listen to his songs, you should follow this link to his Spotify Profile.

Frankie Chavez stage. Look at all those instruments! Photo taken from iporto.amp.pt

  This was probably the post that I enjoyed the most to write at Surf Locus. It gives me such a great pleasure to share with you very good music, especially Portuguese music. I hope you liked it and if you did, please LIKE Surf Locus Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/surflocus. Have Fun!!

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Capitão Fausto e Salto, os Arctic Monkeys/Phoenix portugueses

  Sorry for the non-portuguese speakers who might be reading this. Today I choose to share two bands that sing in Portuguese, but don't worry, the next post will be in english again. You can skip the text and go straight to the YouTube videos, maybe you will like the songs ;).

 Boas pessoal, hoje decidi escrever em Português porque quero-vos apresentar duas grandes bandas portuguesas que acredito que irão ter muito sucesso.

 Provavelmente já conhecem os "Capitão Fausto", mas se não conhecerem esta banda de rock alternativo com grande influência de Arctic Monkeys, eis uma boa oportunidade para o fazer. Esta banda tem apenas um CD lançado em 2011, que se intitula "Gazela". A música mais conhecida deste algum (podem ouvir o álbum inteiro aqui) é "Teresa". A minha música favorita é "Supernova" e portanto também escolhi partilhar esta convosco. Curtam aí: 

  Quero-vos também apresentar outra grande promessa da música portuguesa, os "Salto". Esta banda é um pouco menos conhecida que os Capitão Fausto e provavelmente não os conhecem. Tal como os Capitão Fausto, têm apenas um álbum lançado em 2012.

  Gosto particularmente desta banda no que respeita a música portuguesa. Eles têm um som que também se assemelha a Arctic Monkeys, mas sobretudo a Phoenix, essa grande banda Francesa que vem ao Optimus Alive 2013.

  Sem mais demoras, apresento-vos as minhas duas músicas favoritas destes meninos: "Por Ti Demais" e "Saber Ser". Espero que gostem:

  Espero que tenham curtido este post "Português". Dêem-me feedback e um "likezinho" na página de facebook da Surf Locus, www.facebook.com/surflocus. Abraço!

Foto tirada do Facebook dos Salto

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Lisbon, the beautiful and historic capital of Portugal

   Today's post is about Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, where I live. I decided that this post should be more visual than usually so I will just gather here some photos (a picture is worth a thousand words right?). Enjoy

"São Pedro de Alcântara" Viewpoit, photo taken from www.lisbonlux.com

"Lavra" Elevator, photo taken from www.absolutlisboa.com

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