dancing on the apocalyptical destruction of a traditional culture

Crepúsculo do frevo (Twilight of the Frevo)

Litania do gozo (Litany of Joy)

Live Recording of the piece "Pindaré", which pays homage to traditional music  from the Brazilian state of Maranhão.

Pindaré (Armando Lôbo)- performed by Diaspora Mousikē - Live Recording

LIVE RECORDING 
Performed by Laboratorio Creativo Permanente (directed by Daniele Del Monaco)

Quinta Essenza (Armando Lôbo) - performed by Laboratorio Creativo Permanente

performed by FAChA Streichquartett at Gasteig (Munich)

Felix Key Weber - violin
Anna-Maija Hirvonen - violin
Christa Jardine - viola
Anna Khubashvili - violoncello

IN NATURA (Armando Lôbo) - performed by FAChA Streichquartett

Atrás das máscaras (Armando Lôbo / Conde Belamorte)

Um homúnculo celebra a Grande Obra de seu glorioso mestre alquimista

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5CbhGvh9M



Alchemical Study (Armando Lôbo)

Tantra (Proibidão)

Mr Hangman

The Bride Song

Vade Retro

G.R.E.S (Groupe de Recherches et Samba) - compositores como Stockhausen, Pierre Henry, Candeia e Nelson Cavaquinho unidos pela Música !

A Vanguarda e a Velhaguarda (Armando Lôbo) - stereo reduction

Myopic Serenade

Pindaré Reloaded

Mestre Coriolano

Performed by Sinfonietta Carioca
Conducted by Ubiratã Rodrigues

Romantic Games - by Armando Lôbo

Performed at Reid Hall (Edinburgh) by Scottish Chamber Orchestra musicians

Alison Mitchell - flute
Aisling O’Dea - violin 
Philip Higham - cello

Trio Elétrico I (Armando Lôbo)

"Frevo" version of the classic song by Freddie Mercury

Arrangement: Armando Lôbo
Performance: Armando Lôbo & Frevo Diabo
Armando Lôbo (lead vocal), Fred Castilho (drums), Fernando Silva (bass), Daniel Marques (guitar), Jonas Hocherman (bass trombone), Everson Moraes (tenor trombone), Gilson Santos e José Arimatéa (trumpets), Júlio Merlino (saxophones)
Guest backing vocals: Cecília Vaz, Karol Schittini, Bibi Dullens, Claudia Castelo Branco, Paola Matos, Lu Oliveira, Jade Schneider, Letícia Dias.

Mixed and mastered by Armando Lôbo
Label: Delira Música   www.deliramusica.com

Don't Stop Me Now - Armando Lôbo & Frevo Diabo

Noiva

Técnicas Modernas do Êxtase

Canción de Negros en Cuba

Matinta-perera

Stereo reduction of a 4-channel composition for double trio. 

TRIO 1: DRUMS (Cassius Teperson), ELECTRIC BASS (Ricardo Sá Reston) ALTO SAX (Júlio Merlino); 
TRIO 2: PERCUSSION (Sergio Krakowski), DOUBLE BASS (Bruno Py), FLUTE (Dudu Oliveira).

Digressions II (Armando Lôbo) -  stereo reduction

Para que sustentar filosofia
Se a fera dormiu dentro do peito
É melhor aceitar que não tem jeito
Afundar no abismo a luz do dia
Se de tudo só resta a valentia
A coragem, um vazio reluzente
Indizível carniça, sol latente
Que assombra o fim com o princípio
Quando o homem procura o precipício
Já não há mais mentira no que sente

Para que suportar teologia
Se o Deus abrigou-se do sujeito
É melhor chafurdar-se no rejeito
Mergulhar na imunda anarquia
Se o sentido se faz à revelia
O demente não é mais o que mente
A ação não precisa de agente
Não há mais natureza ou artifício
Quando o homem procura o precipício
Já não há mais mentira no que sente

Nebulosa reluz no excremento
O universo inteiro se implode
A ciência reduz o que não pode
A verdade tem coice de jumento
Não importa a causa ou sentimento
É mistério o ímpeto valente
E o tudo é o nada simplesmente
Há bem mais honradez no meretrício
Quando o homem procura o precipício
Já não há mais mentira no que sente

Não importa se raso ou se profundo
O destino não pesa o que se pensa
Posso me libertar de toda crença
E partir galopando ao fim do mundo
Se eu fosse Jacó, nome Raimundo
Eu teria no corpo um dom urgente
Sairia voando de repente
E cantar não seria tão difícil
Quando o homem procura o precipício
Já não há mais mentira no que sente

Martelo Agalopado

Brazilian composer and poet, Armando Lôbo develops varied musical genres and styles, making use of experimental hues in an intense symbiosis with literature, philosophy and religion.

Lôbo has released 4 albums that received top ratings from the specialized media in Brazil.

In 2010, he receives the highest award for Brazilian music, Prêmio da Música Brasileira, for the work with the Frevo Diabo Orchestra.

In 2012, he wins a contest and is awarded with a grant by the Rio de Janeiro State  with the project entitled Musicians’ Hell, which proposes a musical reading of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. He is also one of the winners of the 2012 edition of the Prêmio Funarte de Composição Clássica (Composition Award of the Brazilian Foundation for the Arts) with his piece Pernambukalos.

In May 2013, his piece Calunga! is premiered by the Percussion Quintet of the Symphonic Orchestra of Rome, Italy, as part of a concert paying tribute to the Ballet Mécanique, by Fernand Léger. He also takes part in the creation of two contemporary music ensembles: the Pan Ensemble, linked to the Brazilian Conservatory of Music, and the Diaspora Mousikè Project, whose debut took place in the famous venue Gasteig, in Munich. In October, his piece Pernambukalos makes its premiere during the XX Biennial of Brazilian Contemporary Music, being acclaimed as the best piece of the evening by audience’s vote.

In 2014, he publishes S.O.S. REVERSOS, a poetry book with palindromic verses. His music is performed by the Diaspora Mousikè in São Paulo and Munich, as well as during the Charlotte New Music Festival (USA) by the Freya String Quartet and the Bechtler Ensemble. He is also one of the composers of the project  Il Viaggio, conceived by the Laboratorio Creativo Permanente, a  music group based in Rome, Italy. This project has been performed in several events in Italy, and is associated to the historical Nuova Consonanza.

Lôbo holds a Master’s in Composition from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. From 2008 to 2014, he lectured Composition and Counterpoint at the Brazilian Conservatory of Music. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh/UK. 

PRESS

ABOUT THE THIRD ALBUM, Modern Tecniques of Ecstasy (2011) 
Estado de São Paulo – “total ecstasy, from the first to the last track” … “the album pulsates with the ecstasy of beauty, of the enjoyment of every faith, regardless of what will come”
Jornal do Commercio(PE) – “In the age of faceless bands, virtually reproduced singers, and conservative pop songs with redundant lyrics, comes an album that unites music and literature, Frevo rhythm and Wagner, that unveils the link present in Mahler between the Italian Venice and Recife, the Brazilian Venice, in which are cited Blake, St. Theresa of Ávila and Count Belamorte, a bizarre poet from the state of Minas Gerais… Is there such an album? Yes. It is called Modern Tecniques of Ecstasy, by Armando Lôbo”
REVISTA CONTINENTE(PE) – “Somber and radiant”, “the composer exhibits a sample of his cultural backbone weaving references to several names from literature and music"

ON HIS SECOND ALBUM, “Vulgar & Sublime" (2008)
Folha de São Paulo – “(…) bringing about what’s rarer and dearer in 2008: personal diction.” – rating:“GREAT”
Jornal do Commercio(PE) – “reaffirms the artist’s talent in all his versatility”; “aimed at a fine selection of listeners”
JB – “Never mind the vulgar; Sublime is the right title”; “gives rise to the best thing since the Mangue Beat generation.”
Gazeta do Povo(PR) -“Armando Lôbo (...) expands musical possibilities and creates delightful strangeness”

ON HIS DEBUT CD, “Alegria dos Homens" (2003):
O Globo -*****
Estado de Minas – “... more ideas and provocations than most celebrated “new geniuses” in their entire careers.”
JB – “a fruit from the crop of new authors and performers that are revolving the foundations of Brazilian Music."



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