Alagoa - The Jar
by Daniel Duque for A Cabine
December 2023
We speak with Alagoa about his new album The Jar and the path that took him from being a metal guitarrist to experimental and ambient music.
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Something Somewhere Not Here Not There
Video Premiere for Clot Magazine
October 2023
Music Video premiere for Alagoa's single "Something Somewhere Not Here Not There" from his most recent album "The Jar".
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Ripping Perception to Shreds
by Noah Schmeling for Atlas Lisboa
May 2023
Alexandre Alagôa’s film When I Close My Eyes I See Everything sets out to strip away the contexts and references that muddle and complicate our experience of vision.
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AG.R97: A Lore Unto Themselves
by Daryl Worthington for The Quietus
November 2022
Portuguese duo AG.R97 speak to Daryl Worthington about building their own video game inspired lore, the community of musicians around the Turva label, and why humour is a powerful thing in experimental music.
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AG.R97: Painwave
by Filipe Costa for Threshold Magazine
November 2022
Painwave, the debut full-length from AG.R97, was conceived between 2020 and 2021 by Luís Neto and Pedro Pimentel (Wordclock) - the project's mentors - through "a constant collaborative effort", featuring nine "electroacoustic pieces" that combine sound design with advanced electronic arrangements and "an ever-present pop nature". Turva, an audiovisual label dedicated to promoting and publishing experimental art, is their home, and one of the projects to look out for in the near future.
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AG.R97 Share New Single 'Vibora Serpentina'
by Patrick Clarke for The Quietus
November 2021
AG.R97, the Oporto duo consisting of Portuguese experimental mainstays Luís Neto (formerly of Shell From Oceanic) and Pedro Pimentel (AKA Wordclock), share a new single 'Vibora Serpentina' from their upcoming album "Painwave". The two musicians, who started out in metal bands, met at college and subsequently opened a studio together in Gaia, Portugal. They began releasing songs via an anonymous YouTube channel shortly after, and then contributed to the acclaimed TRV001 compilation, which was released via the audiovisual label turva.
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Everyway Is Forward: Semibreve 2021 Reviewed
by Daryl Worthington for The Quietus
November 2021
Porto-based AG.R97 push the conversations between humans and technology for their performance in the turva label showcase at Semibreve 2021.
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turva: from music to video
by Daniel Duque for A Cabine
July 2020
"TRV001" opens the door to discovering the new turva publishing project. This is a compilation of experimental sounds, whether electronic or acoustic, which brings together eight Portuguese names, such as ciplinarian, funcionário, Martiška and the two heads of the label, Alexandre Alagôa and Luís Neto.
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music for singular times
by Daniel Pinho for The Feeting Room
July 2020
It’s a new Portuguese audiovisual label, co-founded by Luís Neto and Alexandre Alagôa, that debuted TRV001 in the beginning of July, a compilation that comprises eight portuguese artists under the same banner. The aim is clear - ambient, experimental and diverse sonic pieces
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é turva mas vê claro
by Fernando Gonçalves for bodyspace
July 2020
turva, a new portuguese audiovisual label focused not only on producing music and live events but also experimental film and multidisciplinary new media projects.
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turva: the beginning
by Vasco Completo for Rimas e Batidas
July 2020
A new publishing project has just emerged with its first compilation, TRV001. turva is an audiovisual publishing house founded by Alexandre Alagôa and Luís Neto and focuses on experimental production made in Portugal, with the ambition of creating events and a diversified catalogue within the most challenging art being made today.
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