From the EP "The last summer before our youth" by Walter Benjamin & João Correia. (Mimi Records - http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/uk/album165.php)

Now slowly

From the EP "The last summer before our youth" by Walter Benjamin & João Correia. (Mimi Records - http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/uk/album165.php)


You're dead

Ice Cream and Swinging Lettuce is the result of a collaboration between Walter Benjamin and Baga (Hã!; Jesus, the Misunderstood; Goodbye Toulouse). Both friends wasted a whole week in the summer of 2009 by the beach, writing songs and recording them on a soon to be dead PC very late at night (lo-fi! Yeah!). 

The record was never officially released and it's now available for free download!

Metal Detector

Breathe Well

The Decline

The Girl From Detroit City is a beautifully presented 4-CD boxed set, celebrating an amazing 50 years in the music business for rock ‘n’ roll queen, Suzi Quatro. 

The 82 tracks on offer here span the whole of Suzi’s career, including three songs by the Pleasure Seekers, the all-girl rock band, which Suzi formed along with her sister Patti, and which signed to Mercury Records in 1968. Her massive chart hits from the 1970s also feature, including the ‘Chinnichap’ numbers, Can the Can, 48 Crash and Devil Gate Drive and a whole wealth of material from the 1970s onwards, through to tracks from her critically-acclaimed 2011 album, In The Spotlight, which witnessed her reunion with producer, Mike Chapman; highlights of which included Suzi’s covers of Goldfrapp’s Strict Machine and Rhianna’s Breaking Dishes plus a Chapman number, A Girl Like Me, which he wrote especially for her.


Suzi Quatro - Warm Leatherette

FREE DOWNLOAD! [+ KARAOKE version]
Walter Benjamin presents his new single "Paper boats" featuring the inspiring vocals of Jane Puchniak and the über cool Manuel Dordio' on the home made slide guitar.
As a bonus, a karaoke version is included. Please sing along and be brave enough to send me your versions - the best ones will end up in a Karaoke set.
Here are the really easy lyrics:
Paper Boats
Paper boats set sail from your hands
but my harbour is dead,
my harbour is dead.
Drinking times were yesterday.
And tomorrow again,
tomorrow again.
Artwork by AnaMary Bilbao
Recorded somehow between Lisbon and London.
Produced and mixed by Walter Benjamin


Spring

SPARKS by Foreign Poetry. 
Out on April 6th.

From the upcoming album "Grace & Error on The Edge of Now"
To be released in 2018 on Pataca Discos.

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Sparks (pre-release single)

Foreign Poetry - Sparks

Walter Benjamin is a London-based producer and songwriter born in Lisbon. The Imaginary Life of Rosemary and Me is his new and most personal record, released via Pataca Discos. He had previously released an album (The National Crisis) as well as a few EPs via the now defunct label Merzbau. Mostly home recorded, his discography is anarchic and incoherent, whilst exploring many different musical territories.

The new record was written and recorded between the hot and sunny city of Lisbon and the crazy, busy life of London. The sessions started at Pataca Discos' own beautiful 15A studios and finished in a small, first floor London bedroom, carrying on Walter's own tradition of home recording. Written like a book, the listener travels through its eight honest but ambiguous, short and direct songs. The timeless quality of the arrangements, blending  classic instrumentation with fresh elements ensure room for surprises. References come from different places and eras, assimilated in Benjamin's own universe, in his very unique personal style. We could name people like Dylan, Cohen, Beatles, Beach Boys, Phoenix, LCD Soundsystem, Tom Jobim, Chico Buarque, Red House Painters, Wilco, Yo La Tengo or Beck. But that wouldn't do justice to the countless other influences encountered by the songwriter.

Walter Benjamin's crooner-style, whispered and deep vocals fit perfectly the erotic mood of 'Under Your Dress' while the slow horn lines are dragging like an old Motown record. On 'High Speed Love', the mood is set by an uptempo, unashamedly pop and slightly psychedelic arrangement. 'Airports and Broken Hearts' is an electro-tropical bossa nova love song. 'Mary' is the classic Folk ballad.

Between cigarettes, whisky and beer, a handful of talented musicians add their own fingerprints to Walter's simple, fluid, straightforward, accompaniments on piano keyboards and acoustic guitars. Some of the most talented Portuguese, English and Austrian musicians came together to make the album. His amazing rhythm section: drummer João Correia and bassist; Nuno Lucas (Julie & the Carjackers). Márcia, Francisca Cortesão, and AnaMary Bilbao on backing vocals; Nick Mills and Duncan Brown on horns; João Paulo Feliciano on Hammond organ; Bruno Pernadas on electric guitar; and B Fachada & Jakob Bazora helping with their valuable opinions, comments and technical skills.

Mastering The Imaginary Life of Rosemary and Me was done by the experimental music wizard Rafael Toral who collaborated with Tina and the Top Ten, Pop dell'Arte and Sonic Youth.

Under your dress

Cover of the Velvet Underground's song "The Black Angel's Death Song".
You Can't Win, Charlie Brown will play "The Velvet Underground and Nico" once again at the Optimus Primavera Club festival in Guimarães, November 30th

The Black Angel's Death Song (Velvet Underground Cover)

Walter Benjamin and Jakob Bazora's 2012 christmas single. A digital (but still analog) interpretation of the original christmas carol "Little Drummer Boy", after Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and David Bowie. So grab your glass of mald wine, put on your favourite christmas jumper, hang a sock on the chimney, turn on your dad's expensive hi-fi to 11 and  play this song. Now all you have to do is wait for Santa to arrive.

FEATURING The Geffin Brothers, Babilondon's Zachary Woolfson, Jonathan Pinto, Becky Chilton, Maria Del Mar Hollis and Alisdair Cairnes on vocals.


Jakob Bazora - Roland MC-303 drum machine, synthesiser, Farfisa organ, harmonium, claps, and vocals.
Walter Benjamin - Drums, percussion, bass, guitars, mandolin, synthesiser, claps and vocals.

The radio interference in our synthesiser's filter was an accident.

Produced, recorded and mixed by Walter Benjamin and Jakob Bazora at Roman Palace Studios.

Roman Road Records 2012 - FREE DOWNLOAD

Foreign Poetry - Sparks

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