SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1ST / 10PM
E L U C I D ← Real Guns
Best known as one half of the duo Armand Hammer, rapper and producer E L U C I D has unleashed noisy visions of the world around him in REVELATOR (2024) – his latest solo album, where he combines his sharp observational pen with a relentless search for dynamics between industrial, noise, free jazz, post-punk, and rap. He reminds us of our humanity when everything around us tries to dehumanize us.
Real Guns is a Portuguese rapper born in São Tomé in 1988. He is known for his distinctive style of rap music sung in Creole, with lyrics that reflect his reality and lived experiences.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5TH / 9:30PM / B.LEZA
Smerz present Big City Life ← Girls 96
In Big City Life, Smerz—the duo of Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt—continue their exploratory work into what is possible, or not, in electronic pop music that is mysterious, danceable, and fueled by synthesizers. Nocturnal, esoteric, mysterious songs, capable of lighting up a club at the right moment, or making you cry at the wrong moment.
Girls 96 are Paloma Moniz and Ricardo Gonçalves, a dance-punk and electroclash duo, built on the contrast between energetic, pulsating electronica and confessional narratives that oscillate between indifference and obsession.
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7TH / 10PM
Beautify Junkyards ← April Marmara
The idea of an “invisible world” (captured in the title of Beautify Junkyards’ third album and present in those that followed) perfectly translates the music of Beautify Junkyards. A pop soundtrack, where tropical psychedelia, library music, the electronics and sensibility of Broadcast, and a voracious appetite for the strange world—that of nostalgia, ghosts, hauntology, the occult—combine with the intention of not fitting into a format, that is, into something that can be seen.
April Marmara is the musical alter ego of Beatriz Diniz, a singer-songwriter from Lisbon. The city is an essential part of her music. Music that carries a stillness and, at the same time, a calm instability. She is preparing to release her second LP, Still Life.
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14TH / 10PM
Kathryn Mohr ← Body of Will
Waiting Room, Kathryn Mohr’s debut album, carries with it the liminal condition evident in its title, not so much as a transitional state but rather as a space for inner reflection. A stripped-down record, the instrumentation is limited to essential guitar, field recordings, and sparse keyboards to support Mohr’s voice in songs suspended in a lo-fi fog of shadows and haunting sounds.
Body of Will is a Lisbon-based darkwave dub duo, composed of Moss Kissing on vocals and Kara Konchar on electronics. Stoic bass lines, ghostly echoes, and warm synthesizers give the music its body, while Moss’s voice brings it a fragile, fatal, and devoted soul.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19TH / 9PM
Cortex ← José Lencastre, Hernâni Faustino e João Sousa
An active part of the inexhaustible source of jazz vitality that emanates from Scandinavian soil, this Norwegian quartet has been continuously affirming its “Avant Garde Party Music” for almost two decades. Formed by Thomas Johansson on trumpet, Kristoffer Berre Alberts on saxophone, Ola Høyer on double bass, and Dag Erik Knedal Andersen on drums, they open themselves up to fiery improvisations, exploring a seemingly endless melodic and rhythmic tapestry.
José Lencastre, Hernâni Faustino, and João Sousa come together in a trio that delves deeply into the art of free improvisation. Three key names on the Portuguese jazz and experimental scene, they explore together the limits of sound, silence, and musical interaction.
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21ST / 10PM
Rita Cortezão presents tudo, um pouco ← A Sul
Rita Cortezão found in song a way to try to deal with the suffocation of life as a young woman in Lisbon. Her songs are filled with analog sounds that are as much homemade as they are professionally studio-produced. On the 21st, she will present tudo um pouco at ZDB—her first album, released by Discos Submarinos and co-produced with Benjamin.
Composer and producer of her own songs, A Sul seeks to transform sound into image, giving her music a strong visual and cinematic character. She is preparing to release her first full-length album, QUER QUER QUER.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27TH / 9PM
james K presents Friend ← Villa, Redhead
Subversive in terms of expectations, James Krasner makes pop a new place of constant surprise and vivid experimentation. He is preparing to release an upcoming album where he shuffles the deck once again to fascinate. There is talk of trip-hop evocation or allusions to drum n bass, knowing that none of this will be heard as it immediately sounds. Friend could be just another comeback, but it promises much more than that.
Villa, Redhead is the solo project of Portuguese artist, producer, and numerologist João Maciel. His music traverses different shades of rock, ambient music, and hypnagogic pop, always maintaining a strong melodic sensibility.
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28TH / 10PM
Chuck Roth ← Mi Abras
watergh0st songs and Chuck Roth are one of the highlights of 2025. When you hear the idea of guttural music, there is an association with noise, which is free and furious and also goes hand in hand with noise. Chuck Roth offers something different, while maintaining the origins of these associations. Voice and guitar flow in parallel, the lyrics hide little narratives that sound like short stories.
Mi Abras is a musician and poet from Lisbon, born in the 1990s. Engendered in the multi-polarization of the capital’s SCENE, open to a wide range of repertoires, from pop to noise, through which he has refined his techno-lyrical manipulation techniques.
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29TH / 10PM
Lael Neale presents Altogether Stranger ← alga
Lael Neale has been charting a course that is anything but obvious. Unpredictable, the American artist is trying to understand her rhythm, to exist in that coagulation of sensibility between the Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3, or between the psychedelia of another life in Los Angeles and the more experimental rock approaches of Britpop. Altogether Stranger confronts the previous album: the reunion, the shock, with Los Angeles is conveyed with the abrasive, uncomfortable, and truthful tone it deserves.
With spectral voices and loops, Alga creates a soundscape haunted by spirits, patient and contemplative, filled with memories and nebulous allusions.
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