Stealing Orchestra
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Stealing Orchestra is a band from Porto, Portugal that explores music through sampling and real instruments since 1997.
A review by Cool & Strange Music Magazine back in 2000 gives a general idea of the music by Stealing Orchestra even if there were many changes in the line-up or musical creation.
"No matter how off the map Mascarenhas' musical funhouse gets, with things running backward and jumping in at the most inappropriate spots, there is always the semblance of a song. His mixed madness has a definite lounge and pop bent to it - yet there is also a strong Portuguese/Spanish flavor. Think of all faux Spanish music that exists out there, then try to imagine what would happen if someone from the area began lampooning American culture with that inherent style. It's like a soundtrack a spy movie ran through a blender."
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2003 The Incredible Shrinking Band (Zounds/Sabotage)
2000 Stereogamy (Nortesul/EMI-VC)
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2004 Bu! (You Are Not Stealing Records
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2001 É Português? Não Gosto! (You Are Not Stealing Records
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2006 Calling All Fiends
2006 Saudade: V.A. from Atlantic Coast
2005 Portugal: A New Sound Portrait
2005 Bor Land Can Take You Anywhere You Want
2005 No Noise in Porto Vol.1
2003 Offline 1
2002 Your Imagination
2002 Cais do Rock Vol.4
2000 PressOn
All EP's were released by their own netlabel You Are Not Stealing Records
and are free to download.
Fernando Sousa also X-Wife
Gustavo Costa also Genocide, Motornoise, F.R.I.C.S., Lost Gorbachevs, Most People Have Been Trained to Be Bored, Children for Breakfast & a lot more including collaborations with Barbez, Três Tristes Tigres, Damo Suzuki
& John Zorn
in the BBC series The Atheism Tapes
- Covered songs: Star Wars Theme, Twilight Zone Theme, Hava Nagila, Katioucha, For Me Formidable, Summer of 42, Maravilhoso Coração Maravilhoso, Oye Como Va, Anniversary Song and Tetris Theme.
- Mixed bands: Mão Morta
, The Legendary Tiger Man, Supernova, Bildmeister, Alla Pollaca, Kubik e Holocausto Canibal
- The band won 5 Press Awards and 1 Best Experimental Demo Award in the Portuguese Prémios Maquete 1998 with their first demo
- Stereogamy and The Incredible Shrinking Band were considered by Portuguese press as two of the best albums of 2000 and 2003 respectively
- The retail chain Fnac
included The Incredible Shrinking Band in a book with the 231 best Portuguese albums of the last 50 years.
A review by Cool & Strange Music Magazine back in 2000 gives a general idea of the music by Stealing Orchestra even if there were many changes in the line-up or musical creation.
"No matter how off the map Mascarenhas' musical funhouse gets, with things running backward and jumping in at the most inappropriate spots, there is always the semblance of a song. His mixed madness has a definite lounge and pop bent to it - yet there is also a strong Portuguese/Spanish flavor. Think of all faux Spanish music that exists out there, then try to imagine what would happen if someone from the area began lampooning American culture with that inherent style. It's like a soundtrack a spy movie ran through a blender."
Albums
2011 Deliverance (You Are Not Stealing RecordsYou Are Not Stealing Records
A Portuguese netlabel launched by Stealing Orchestra in 2001.The original idea was to create a way to freely share EPs by the band or their side projects but soon it expanded to include items by other artists.-Discography:...
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2003 The Incredible Shrinking Band (Zounds/Sabotage)
2000 Stereogamy (Nortesul/EMI-VC)
EP's
2004 The Haunted and Almost Lost Songs 97-98 (You Are Not Stealing RecordsYou Are Not Stealing Records
A Portuguese netlabel launched by Stealing Orchestra in 2001.The original idea was to create a way to freely share EPs by the band or their side projects but soon it expanded to include items by other artists.-Discography:...
)
2004 Bu! (You Are Not Stealing Records
You Are Not Stealing Records
A Portuguese netlabel launched by Stealing Orchestra in 2001.The original idea was to create a way to freely share EPs by the band or their side projects but soon it expanded to include items by other artists.-Discography:...
)
2001 É Português? Não Gosto! (You Are Not Stealing Records
You Are Not Stealing Records
A Portuguese netlabel launched by Stealing Orchestra in 2001.The original idea was to create a way to freely share EPs by the band or their side projects but soon it expanded to include items by other artists.-Discography:...
)
Compilations
2011 Futuro Primitivo2006 Calling All Fiends
2006 Saudade: V.A. from Atlantic Coast
2005 Portugal: A New Sound Portrait
2005 Bor Land Can Take You Anywhere You Want
2005 No Noise in Porto Vol.1
2003 Offline 1
2002 Your Imagination
2002 Cais do Rock Vol.4
2000 PressOn
All EP's were released by their own netlabel You Are Not Stealing Records
You Are Not Stealing Records
A Portuguese netlabel launched by Stealing Orchestra in 2001.The original idea was to create a way to freely share EPs by the band or their side projects but soon it expanded to include items by other artists.-Discography:...
and are free to download.
External links
- Stealing Orchestra at myspace
- You Are Not Stealing Records at myspace
- You Are Not Stealing Records homepage
Band members
João Mascarenhas also Dr. Phibes & The Ten Plagues of Egypt, G.G.Allin's Dick, Salvatore, SroshFernando Sousa also X-Wife
X-wife
X-Wife is a rock band from Portugal. Current members are: João Vieira , Fernando Sousa , Rui Maia .-Biography:...
Gustavo Costa also Genocide, Motornoise, F.R.I.C.S., Lost Gorbachevs, Most People Have Been Trained to Be Bored, Children for Breakfast & a lot more including collaborations with Barbez, Três Tristes Tigres, Damo Suzuki
Damo Suzuki
, universally known as Damo Suzuki , is a singer best known for his membership in the German krautrock group Can.-Biography:As a teenager, Suzuki spent the late 1960s wandering around Europe, often busking....
& John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
Trivia
- The album Deliverance includes excerpts of an interview to Colin McGinnColin McGinn
Colin McGinn is a British philosopher currently working at the University of Miami. McGinn has also held major teaching positions at Oxford University and Rutgers University. He is best known for his work in the philosophy of mind, though he has written on topics across the breadth of modern...
in the BBC series The Atheism Tapes
The Atheism Tapes
The Atheism Tapes is a 2004 BBC television documentary series presented by Jonathan Miller. The material that makes up the series was originally filmed in 2003 for another, more general series, Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief, but was too lengthy for inclusion...
- Covered songs: Star Wars Theme, Twilight Zone Theme, Hava Nagila, Katioucha, For Me Formidable, Summer of 42, Maravilhoso Coração Maravilhoso, Oye Como Va, Anniversary Song and Tetris Theme.
- Mixed bands: Mão Morta
Mão Morta
Mão Morta is a Portuguese avant-garde rock band that started its activities in 1985 in Braga. The group's name means "dead hand", based on a traditional Portuguese nursery rhyme. They are generally considered to be one of the most important bands in the Portuguese rock scene...
, The Legendary Tiger Man, Supernova, Bildmeister, Alla Pollaca, Kubik e Holocausto Canibal
- The band won 5 Press Awards and 1 Best Experimental Demo Award in the Portuguese Prémios Maquete 1998 with their first demo
- Stereogamy and The Incredible Shrinking Band were considered by Portuguese press as two of the best albums of 2000 and 2003 respectively
- The retail chain Fnac
Fnac
Fnac is an international entertainment retail chain offering cultural and electronic products, founded by André Essel and Max Théret in 1954. It is the largest retailer of its kind in France...
included The Incredible Shrinking Band in a book with the 231 best Portuguese albums of the last 50 years.