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Porquinho Diabo
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Porquinho Diabo
Description: Porquinho Diabo, a.k.a. Christopher Anthony Matthias Da Rosa, was born in a small Central Valley town to a pair of Portuguese immigrants. His childhood consisted of learning the difference between English and Portuguese, going to Holy Ghost festas, and listening to broadcasts of fado (a tragedy-laden style of Portuguese folk music) on his Grandmother's radio. The signal, coming from one small town to another, barely made it through the air waves but it played all day long. As would be expected, the endless exposure to mournful ballads and guilt-inspiring Catholic masses of a typical Portuguese upbringing made him an all too perfect receptor for sad music. He moved unwittingly from fado to modern rock, from Amalia Rodrigues and Carlos Ramos to The Cure and Pedro the Lion. In 2002, after a fifteen year long streak of punk and indie rock bands, he and a few loyal cohorts started Judith and Holofernes: a band that blended all those influences together to create what they called, "fadocore." Judith and Holofernes is still actively performing and recording but Chris is somewhat prone to periods of isolation and recorded an album by himself in August 2007. The EP, which is mostly a series of cover songs strung together to create a twisted narrative of love, betrayal and bloodlust, plays like a time traveler's journal. Each track is pulled out of its context and rewritten in the style of a different generation: rock songs as fados or fados as shoegazer dirges. Everything on the album is also there for a reason... though some of those reasons may be incredibly dubious and even self-referential.
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