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“João Alegria is an essential figure in the Portuguese underground music scene. With a prolific career spanning over a decade, the guitarist – as he prefers to be called – embodies artistic commitment, resilience, and a deep devotion to crafting dark, experimental soundscapes. The numerous albums the Lisbon-based musician has released testify to a sonic vision akin to its object of study: unhurried and unperturbable, yet continuous and tempestuous."

— João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

“You paint for fame & status, I paint for freedom & awareness”, reads one of the vertical graffiti that Mr.Paradox Paradise painted on some Berlin building. Likewise, there is nothing in João Alegria’s art that is done with the intention of fame or likes. He spent more than a decade editing with recognition limited to the “community” of sound nomads. “I’ve been doing this for some time and I don’t have a very wide audience”, he admits. However, who knows, knows. And who knows, like it. João Alegria’s music is for connoisseurs. Perhaps that will always be the case.
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However, the unique contours of his art, combined with a stubborn aesthetic consistency and prolificacy, are the characteristics that simultaneously nest and vitalize it. The unconditional and obstinate way in which this “guitarist” – as he likes to be called – has created his work is a rare case of perseverance. His motivation? It’s not entirely explicit, but somewhere between the love of music and the physiological need to create lives the truth of João Alegria. If he lives because he breathes, he seems to make music because he has to live. One senses in his speech an inevitability of cathartic genesis that surreptitiously emerges between the lines like a figure wandering through the night.
João Alegria can also move through the shadows, but his music definitely points to the heavens, full of verticality” 

– João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

Out now! fixe Idee (Carbon/Feeding Tube),  Rubenis / Tikas / Manner / Arn - An Anthology of Contemporary Solo Guitar (Creative Class War/Hillotehdas),  In Trialogue with Luisa Muhr & Maria Grand, Jandek Vienna Wednesday (Corwood), Alle Formen Trio (Small Forms), Kost Nix w/ Eyal Maoz (Feeding Tube), Misuse (Ramble Recs), Primordial Undermind An Imaginal Abydos (SOB/DWA)

Bestand is a cultural initiative that focuses on diverse DIY approaches. Vienna based. Vermittlung und Förderung von Musik, Kunst und Kultur.

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live

08/02/2025 Struma + Iodine Das Weisse Haus [Vienna]
06/06/2024 Jeopardize Tapes x Enigmatic Serenades Flucc [Vienna]
08/12/2023 Mini Music Department [Kunstakademie Düsseldorf]
27/10/2023 Made Up Realities [Vienna]
01/10/2023 Sad*Crab Radio presents… Celeste [Vienna]
03/09/2023 Loose Trax Venue MOT [London]
28/07/2023 5Hive Rave [Vienna]
13/10/2022 St. Margaret’s House Chapel [London]
15/09/2022 sch:cht Werk [Vienna]
11/06/2022 Friends Serene Shacklewell Arms [London]
31/03/2022 hey angel Venue MOT [London]
17/03/2022 Vaermina EP launch Avalon Cafe [London]
03/12/2021 FC Malina EP launch Windmill Brixton [London]

Born from a vision of Artemis-Diana at Ephesus in 2023, lex videndi photographs, hand-crafts graphic/web design projects, and creates video/film––both in-house, and for alternative clients.

lex videndi materialises visions, working at the intersection of baroque/zen, renaissance/tech, and the quest for holiness in this lost age.

lex videndi is based everywhere.

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collating some untethered demos here

more directional work on https://soundcloud.com/baraandisa

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