“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)

Music lover & collector. Art, technology, design and fashion fan, futurist.

Baskaru is a French record label dealing with experimental electronic music and sound art.

I play records & files to make something happen inside listeners or on the dancefloor. I make secret songz that I will release at some point.


PAST GIGS
31.05.2025 - Point FMR, Paris
24.05.2025 - free party, Paris
28.03.2025 - La Méandre, Chalon-sur-Saône
06.12.2024 - Grrrnd Zero, Villeurbanne
04.10.2024 - Free party, région parisienne
14.06.2024 - Gofildren, Dordogne
10.05.2024 - La Station, Paris
14.10.2023 - écho)s( , Pau
16.09.2023 - Louzaouenn an touseg, Kerminy
02.09.2023 - SETU, Elliant
26.05.2023 - Brest Friends - Le Grabuge, Brest
04.05.2023 - @dictee-magique - Jet FM, Nantes
21.04.2023 - Earth Night - Le Vauban, Brest
25.03.2023 - Le Sample, Bagnolet
04.02.2023 - s☼leil (live)- Saint-Denis
21.01.2023 - b2b @be_lec - Le Sucre, Lyon
03.12.22 - s☼leil (live) - le Zorba, Paris
08.10.22 - XXXWanted w/ DJ F16 Falcon - DAda, Toulouse
07.10.22 - Sonic Floor - Vauban, Brest
10.09.22 - Assomniak - Saint Cadou
19.08.22 - Soutane Scandale
12.08.22 - Guyenne Festival
30.07.22 - Sainte Rita b2b @be_lec w/La Mamie's, NVST, Judaah ... - La Rotonde, Paris
22.07.22 - Sainte Rita b2b @be_lec - Bistrot St So, Lille
06.07.22 - @dictee-magique - L'Imprimerie, Marseille
02.07.22 - Nuit du VAN, Nantes
25.06.22 - In Steam - L'Aconservatoire, Noisy
24.06.22 - Bagnoler, Bagnolet
23.06.22 - Wanderlust, Paris
11.06.22 - Sainte Rita b2b @be_lec - Genève
10.06.22 - Brèche, Brest
21.05.22 - mix for @hydrangeadust - Palais de Tokyo, Paris
21.04.22 - Benzo, Marseille
26.03.22 - @dictee-magique - atelier Brèche, Brest
12.03.22 - Dynam'hit party! Sainte Rita b2b @be_lec - La Station, Aubervilliers
03.03.22 - @dictee-magique - Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
18.02.22 - Chaleur d'hiver aux Gallets - Rennes
18.01.22 - s☼leil (live) - Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
05.09.21 - @dictee-magique - Bagnoler
21.08.21 - Sacho Galiero - Château de Traslage
08.08.21 - VISIONS - Plougonvelin
16.07.21 - La Pâte - DUUU Radio, Paris
20.09.20 - Subaru, Montreuil
25.07.20 - Sainte Rita b2b Be_lec - ZDA, Cévennes
22.02.20 - Bisou  w/ @yasmi_youb, @Be_lec - Gambetta Club, Paris
11.01.20 - Coma Chanter - Le Klub, Paris w Sean Canty, Myako
04.01.20 - SALE 2020 - DSXL, Romainville
30.11.19 - SPAZIO, Aubervilliers
17.10.19 - Klima + Proxi Party w/ Hyph11e - La Java, Paris
28.09.19 - Ondes Rouges - Paris
23.09.19 - live performance for Parsimony w/ Renick Bell, Graal, Espace B, Paris
21.09.19 - 1NT3RLOV3 - Lausanne, Suisse
07.09.19 - Rentrée Fatale - Espace B, Paris
20.07.19 - Point Of View w/ Minou Oram, - Superposition, Lyon
07.07.19 - Zone Disco Autonome- Jura
23.04.19 - @dictee-magique - Dizonord, Paris
09.02.19 - TransCyberien - Festival des Libertés Numériques, Rennes
29.12.18 - SHML TRBL - L'officine 2.0, Paris
16.11.18 - FUGU! - Bagnolet
12.10.18 - 1 an 2 Bisou - Le Klub, Paris
29.07.18 - Montvalent Montvalent Festival, Montvalent
21.07.18 - Zone Disco Autonome - Plateau de l'Aubrac
09.06.18 - Les Trucs release party - Le Barlok, Bruxelles
02.06.18 - Emaux&Camées + BDLP
04.04.18 - Le Pas Sage - Secret spot
06.10.17 - 1er Bisou w/ @Be_lec - 9b, Paris
... etc

Arts chorégraphiques post-brutes / Anatomie pour la danse / Fascia et pédagogie perceptive

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