:PAPERCUTZ + Ensemble in presentation by historic Portuguese rooms
June 15th at Teatro Sá de Miranda
:PAPERCUTZ presents his new album, So Far So Fading, on June 15th, at 9:30 pm, at Teatro Sá de Miranda in Viana do Castelo.
In a unique and immersive show, award-winning producer and composer Bruno Miguel, responsible for the northern project with an international career, joins orchestrator Bruno Ferreira from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp.
With the support and recognition of DGARTES and the European Community, for its Culture Moves Europe program, and by the government of Iceland and its Iceland Music Export, So Far So Fading is one of Bruno Miguel’s most ambitious projects ever, conceived between Iceland, in Reykjavik, with Francesco Fabris, engineer responsible for several soundtracks for films and series that won Oscars and Golden Globes, and recordings at the Porto Conservatory with words by writer Daniel Jonas, Grand Prize for Literature, and promising young musicians already with place in several international orchestras.
The audiovisual concert also features the projection of original footage, by director Vasco Mendes, a producer of documentaries, short fiction and video clips, who has established himself through his multicolour language in the artistic visual world of several national musical projects, with filming in Portugal and Iceland.
This same show will be presented in November at one of the most renowned classical music festivals in Japan, the Ogikubo Music Festival, as announced by the group’s producer. (learn more here)
Tickets for the concert at Teatro Sá de Miranda are now available at BOL.
:PAPERCUTZ – Biography
:PAPERCUTZ is a pop-electronic band from the city of Porto, formed and led by Bruno Miguel. The first song appeared in 2008, included in the compilation “Novos Talentos FNAC” which highlights Portuguese music artists, in a selection by Henrique Amaro, from Antena 3 radio. At the same time, the remix of the single “Camaleão” appeared, which would later be included in an E.P. published on Rastilho Records, by the Braga band Peixe:Avião.
In June 2008 they released the single EP entitled “Ultravioleta Rmx’s”. Work highly praised by journalist Nuno Galopim who highlighted “the moment of healthy agitation that the Portuguese pop/rock panorama (and its peripheries) has experienced this year” and in October of the same year the album “Lylac”, both by Canadian label Apegenine Recordings. The work is acclaimed by the national and international press, receiving excellent reviews. “A Secret Search”, one of the songs from “Lylac”, won second prize at the International Songwriting Competition, whose jury was made up of Tom Waits, and Robert Smith, among other notables.
In April 2009, they received an award for the “Off The Beaten Track” category, at The People’s Music Awards, whose ceremony with live concerts took place in London. The jury for this event was made up of Annie Nightingale (BBC Radio DJ), Emre Ramazanoglu (producer associated with Lou Rhodes) and Eddy Temple-Morris (XFM producer). Later, in August :PAPERCUTZ won the “Ones to Watch” award, a Myspace initiative, being the first Portuguese band to achieve this recognition. The promotion of “Lylac” led :PAPERCUTZ to perform live, in 2009 and 2010, on European and United States stages, including at the South by Southwest Festival, in Austin Texas and at the Exit Festival, held in Novi Sad, in Serbia.
The remix album “Do Outro Lado Do Espelho (Lylac Ambient Reworks)” was released in 2010 by the English label Audiobulb Records. The remix of the theme “Lylac”, made by producer and pianist Helios (Keith Kenniff) and the video by Japanese artist Daihei Shibata was awarded at the 2010 edition of Protoclip – Festival International du Clip Musical, in Paris, with its premiere in Portugal in July same year, in the official selection of music videos at the Vila do Conde Short Film Festival. In anticipation of a new album, invitations arose for :PAPERCUTZ to remix songs from other international projects and in particular, for the compilation that celebrated the first anniversary of the English electronic music publication “Future Sequence”, thus giving rise to the reinterpretation of the theme “Disintegration” , from The Cure’s seminal album which was highlighted by well-known radio host, Alan Cross.
The band spent part of 2011 in New York, where they worked with producer Chris Coady (Beach House, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio). As a result of this collaboration, the second album of originals was born, “The Blur Between Us”, released in July 2012 by the English label Sounds Of A Playground, also featuring a national edition, released in September of the same year by
Rastilho Records. :PAPERCUTZ presented a darker album, in which they featured Portuguese writer José Luís Peixoto. Journalist Vítor Belanciano, from the newspaper Público, highlighted the “stimulating pop-electronic with dark contours” while radio host Nuno Ávila considered it one of the best national albums of the year.
Meanwhile, abroad, :PAPERCUTZ received prominence in English and North American periodical publications such as “The Fader”, “MTV”, “Iggy”, and “Dummy Magazine”, among others, and their work was selected by Thierry Vissol for the “Un disco per l’Europa” project, promoted by the European Commission. During the same period, the band returned to play at the South by Southwest festival, also returning to performances in Portugal, with official presentations of the album throughout the country. At the end of 2012, Bruno Miguel was selected for the Red Bull Music Academy, making him return to New York, where he worked in the studio with mentors such as Four Tet or Flying Lotus.
In 2013, :PAPERCUTZ entered a new phase of composition, beginning a collaboration with the label Enchufada, from Buraka Som Sistema, which resulted in the single “Storm Spirits”. Returning to Portugal, they finished the tour of “The Blur Between Us”, which included visits to the Neopop, Fusing, Paredes de Coura festivals, concerts at Casa da Música and other prime venues on the national music circuit. At the end of 2013, the first edition of one of his works took place in Japan, by Kilk Records. Considered album of the month by distributor More Records, this work was highlighted in publications such as “Fudge” being broadcast on Kiss FM KOBE radio stations or FM North Wave, something unprecedented for a foreign band in the Kilk Records catalogue.
It is at this time that Bruno Miguel, in his capacity as producer, has a lot of demand for remixes by international artists such as White Sea (producer and singer of M83), JMSN, and Nite Jewel, among many others.
The group continued with its presentations, having performed for the first time in Asia, at the end of 2016, at the Wonderfruit festival, later returning to the United States for new concerts in Las Vegas, at the Further Future festival, SWSX, and also participating in the Eurosonic conference, representing Portugal and some of the most interesting national projects.
2017 found :PAPERCUTZ releasing their album of originals, entitled “King Ruiner”, unveiling their new sound in new concerts abroad and also in Portugal. The new vocalist, Catarina Miranda, is one of the elements responsible for a different sound approach, evoking pop harmonies and choral motifs found in non-Western geographies.
In 2018, they were chosen as one of the Portuguese bands to be part of #INES talent, a program supported by the European Union that recognizes the value of European groups with the capacity to circulate on the intra-community festival circuit and participate in several industry meetings such as Waves Vienna, Liverpool Soundcity or the well-known Monkey Week where the local press considered them one of the best concerts of the festival and one of the names of new Portuguese music.
In 2019 the project :PAPERCUTZ went on two European tours (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Poland) going through festivals in the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Iceland among many others, an artistic residency in New York and were chosen for the European Union program for circulating artists in its space, INES#talent.
In 2020, the group of Portuense producer Bruno Miguel, has new international editions of his album ‘King Ruiner’, a work of black and exotic pop electronica, recorded between Porto, NYC, Hamburg and Tokyo. The new work features several vocalists such as the aforementioned Portuguese Catarina Miranda, in addition to Ferri, a Japanese artist highlighted by Japanese critics in last year’s revelations and the German Lia Bilinski, a singer who has been part of several groups highlighted in the German press. The edition features the publisher responsible for albums by Of Montreal, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Given the pandemic, the international dates in terminal Japan and the entire Asian tour as the first shows in China are cancelled.
However, in Portugal, the album is highlighted in several publications and radio stations (Antena 3 / Super Bock Super Rock / Rádio Oxigénio / Vodafone FM / Rádio Universitária do Minho / Rádio Universidade de Coimbra / Rádio Universitária do Algarve / RDP África / Jornal Noticias / Time Oct/…) and had a new edition released in times of pandemic with Portuguese artists Octa Push, Throes + The Shine, Scúru Fitchádu, Pedro, FARWARMTH, IVVVO, and Ondness and new original songs.
From 2020 to 2022 the project operates mainly in the national territory with dates in venues such as Casa Da Música
and CCB or at Teatro Circo where the show called ‘Choral’ premieres, which revisits King Ruiner with a trio of invited Portuguese singers, and whose filming premieres on RTP in addition to releasing a transition single for a new work where mome´VALES´com singer Bia Ferreira and considered one of the themes of the year for A Antena 3. With the possibility of new dates abroad, :papercutz presents King Ruiner in the United States, and Europe and end the year in Japan returning to the city of Tokyo, their last action before the start of the pandemic.
In 2023, :papercutz will debut a new line-up with an ensemble of classically educated musicians, at the Iceland Airwaves Festival, in Iceland, embarking on a new musical direction and beginning to perform in national Historic Theatres.
For 2024, :PAPERCUTZ are preparing a new album called ‘So Far So Fading’, bringing together new arrangements of songs from the different editions of the project and original compositions with guests such as orchestrator Bruno Pinto Ferreira, and an ensemble of voices and instrumentalists, which will have international edition by German publisher K7 Records. In one of Bruno Miguel’s most ambitious projects ever, conceived between Iceland and Reykjavik with Francesco Fabris, engineer responsible for several soundtracks for films and series that won Oscars and Golden Globes, and recordings at the Porto Conservatory with words by writer Daniel Jonas, Grand Prize for Literature, and promising young musicians who have already played in several international orchestras.
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