Boris Vian's Heartsnatcher Illustration

Here is an illustration of the L'Arrache-coeur (Heartsnatcher), a novel from Boris Vian.

Boris Vian was a French writer and musician among many other things. His writings include famous books like L'Écume des jours (Foam of the Daze/ Froth on the Daydream/ Mood Indigo), L'automne à Pékin (Autumn in Peking). He lived from 1920-1959 and the Heartsnatcher was his last novel edited, in 1953.

On this book, a story of several sick relationships is told in a very visual and surrealistic way. Boris Vian points out, in a corrosive way, how unbalanced and fragile human relations can be.

On that principle - and regarding this specific part of the book taken from chapter XVII - I illustrated this theme thinking that flowers need sun, water and air to grow, not soil to confine them and a flood of water to rotten their roots.

Find a little bit more about this fantastic writer here.

Victor Hugo with the Moonshiners @ Sabotage

It was last week that Moonshiners played at Sabotage Club in Lisbon.

The Moonshiners are Victor Hugo (voice and guitar), Gamblin Sam (voice and harmonic) and Susie Filipe (drums).

We were just a few listening but, the concert kept going with the feel of a mustard landscape.

Countryside was the scenery for the guitar strings to fly high, elsewhere. 

Victor Hugo has the same name of one of the biggest French writers, may he live up beautifully to that.

Thank you Sabotage team for trusting my work.

Susie Filipe with the Moonshiners @ Sabotage

It was last week that Moonshiners played at Sabotage Club in Lisbon.

The Moonshiners are Victor Hugo (voice and guitar), Gamblin Sam (voice and harmonic) and Susie Filipe (drums).

Susie Filipe added color and will to the concert. In all moments, I felt she was thrilled to be there and actively contributed for a fun step dance tone to the hole thing.  

Thank you Sabotage team for trusting my work.

João Veludo with the Underdogs @ Sabotage

The Underdogs played last week at Sabotage Club

The Underdogs are Victor Hugo (guitar, voice and harmonic), Alexandre Mano (bass) and João Veludo (drums)

The lights were shining to Veludo that was seriously playing. If the Underdogs were a house, Veludo was the architectural plan. 

Thank you Sabotage team for trusting my work.

Alexandre Mano with the Underdogs @ Sabotage

The Underdogs played last week at Sabotage Club

The Underdogs are Victor Hugo (guitar, voice and harmonic), Alexandre Mano (bass) and João Veludo (drums)

Some rock and blues was going on and, throughout the concert, I had the feeling his bass was a surfboard and his playing was pointing out to a brighter point in some tropical island or Hawaiian print.

Alexandre Mano was not only playing bass, he was performing and entertaining. One could tell how much fun he was having being the PR of the band when he spoke to the drunk man in the audience that that night permanently - funnily or not - tried to sabotage their concert.

He stepped up to the plate with grace and ingenuity, after all he was a music surfer :)

Thank you Sabotage team for trusting my work.

Balcony TV Sessions article @ Hardmusica

Check out my new Balcony TV Sessions article at Hardmusica site.

Carlos Zíngaro @ Jazz.pt

Did this drawing last year at Hugo Antunes + Miguel Mira + Carlos Zíngaro's concert at APAV. And this was one evening to remember, and I actually named it as one of my favorite concerts in 2013, here. Check out the full drawing here.

Carlos Zíngaro is a violin player among many other things.
Yes he can paint, he can draw, he can compose, he can improvise, he can write arabesques in the air, make you fly to a new century, all sorts of things magicians do. Or very talented musicians, like him.
His ideas are innovative and stand out and so I thought about this: he can see things others don't, he can think things others don't, so his glasses divide his head from his material body.

The greener, the ground; the blacker, the unknown.

Thank you for "breaking out through" and taking us with you on this journey. Few can do it.

Can't wait for the next exciting concert Nuno Catarino will organize in one of my already favorite library concert rooms in Lisbon.