Album Notes

Somewhere in the beginning of the 21st century, they met around the corner, in Lisbon city two wanderers, one a thin "fire horse" born in 66, a loner with a top hat and wrinkled face, the other, tall, born in 1970, who came from the dark world of Jazz, starsign "dog", both swore to avenge the dead and resuscitate the living,

Influenced by Comics, they have misspent nostalgia in their pockets and the deaf soul lost in dark films. They play Lisbon, the city of the countryside, of the chimneys and of the white domes sceneries of a lost past, "fado", western wanderer everything together in a voodoo of emotions, the Tagus, the lovers that go different ways abandoned angels on the crossroads of destiny, flowers with mixed up colours, saints, flaming chambers, naked guitars, spitted and thrown to the street, basses on fire, top hats chickens on the loose and things that roll in the street. there standing against the wall in the middle of all this mess, both of them bitting apple sins, while looking at you...

The band Dead Combo is composed of two elements:

Tó Trips - electric guitar
Pedro V. Gonçalves - double bass, melodica and electric guitar.

Formed in 2003 by the occasion of a recording a tribute to the great portuguese guitar player Carlos Paredes,

Dead Combo has released the debut CD "Vol. 1" in June 2004.

Together they found a new sound, some kind of Fado mixture with western movies soundtracks.

As a critic recentely described their music:

"...Here Fado was reinvented. Here western was turned upside down. It's gunshots fired between the sounds of a guitar. It's like at any moment Clint Eastwood entered a Fado house and at the top of the stairs Severa(*) pointed him to her room..."

(*) Severa - The first great Fado singer.