From the album 'Unforced Errors' - out now on Vice de Forme.

Cassette and download:

Frosty sea green cassette - C-42 - limited edition of 70 copies.
Silkscreened box. Includes download code. 

Recorded and composed by Mark Vernon
Violin: Manja Ristić

Igneous Intrusions

“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)

unconventional sounds storyteller & a part of @fenetre-ovale community. 
Curator of Tbilisi based charity defunct event series 'fff' with donations to anti-war helping fonds

June 11 - Lyl radio, Brussels
April 19 - Kissa10, Belgrade
April 17 - Fields fetival, Belgrade
September 11 - Kraak, Brussels
June 11 - Kiosk radio
April 13 - Left Bank, Tbilisi
2023
Dec 01 - Mutant radio, Tbilisi
Aug 15 - TNP radio, Amsterdam
Aug 5 - Brussels w/ Ramzi, Sagat, Dj Flapy
July 14 - Kiosk radio, Brussels
2022
September 16 - Onder Stroom, Antwerp
September 7 - @lyl_radio, Brussels
August 20 - @testfm / @polye
August 14 - fff charity event, Tbilisi w/ Hugo Capablanca
July 8 - Mutant radio, Tbilisi
June 19 - fff charity event, Tbilisi
June 18 - Barev United, Yerevan
May 15 - fff charity event, Tbilisi
February 22 - New New World radio 5 Years, Mutabor
2021
December 18 - Рихтыч
December 17 - Изич
October 23 - @errring_bar
October 9 - Тусич^^ @thevolks x @yzeech
September 18 - @Fields, Saint-Petersburg
September 17 - Ugly, Saint P.
September 11 - Mutabor x R. Villalobos
August 21 - @Signal festival, @thevolks
July 30 - @yzeech Birthday, Saint-P.
July 17 - Dissidents, Saint-Petersburg w/ Roma Nemov
July 10 - Redrum, Saint-Petersburg w/ Vollok
June 13 - @thevolks.ru, Mutabor
June 11 - Любовь и Голуби, @yzeech
May 29 - @errring_bar opening, Flacon 
May 22 - µ² Mutabor 2 Years
May 9 - HOROVOD II, Mutabor 
April 25 - ARMA X I I I, Mutabor
March 21 - Электрическая Собака, @yzeech
March 19 - @saksk-bing, Слёзы
March 12 -  Петля, Dissident 
February 27 - ARMA²⁰²¹, Mutabor 
February 21 - New New World radio 3 years, Powerhouse
February 21 - Flaner
February 19 - Труд, WIP
January 29 - Разморозка, Слёзы
January 9 - Внезапная, WIP

For bookings: meagreresource@hotmail.com

Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. 

His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Gagarin, Sonoris, Granny, Psychetropes, Persistence of Sound, Flag Day, Entr’acte, Discrepant, Futura Resistenza, Vice de Forme, Calling Cards and Canti Magnetici. 

He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally.