The poet, songwriter and vocalist Tiago Gomes joins the composer, producer and guitar player FLAK to create a performance of spoken word that mixes literature and music. Texts of his own, as well as from Jack Kerouac, Fonollosa, Daniel Filipe, Manifesto Dada, Bob Kaufman, Sam Shepard, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Langston Hughes, among others, are assembled over a talking guitar and a plain electronic landscape.

Highlighted for the interpretation of the powerful poem The Invention of Love by Daniel Filipe and excerpts from the Dada Manifesto, which are presented here as a Dadaist symphony in several parts.

/ about Tiago Gomes

He was born in Lisbon in 1971. Poet with 5 books edited in Portugal (Black box of plane diverted by terrorist attack, Man in gray, Cyanide jokes, Violin me electric and Self-help) and one in Spain (Poetic Work). He has published poems in Spain, Italy and Mexico. She has worked as a lyricist in the groups “A Naifa” and “Front Line”, and lead singer in several projects, such as “On The Road”, “Travel Agency” and “The Inspectors”. It integrates, at the moment, the groups “The Big Lebowskis” and “Coyotes”. Since 1996 he has edited, directed and produced the “Bible” art magazine. Author of the Ultravoxx program on Voxx radio. Founder of the ZdB Gallery.

/ about FLAK

Composer, producer, trainer and guitarist, FLAK has for 30 years been one of the active players in national music. In 1983 he was founder, with Xana and Alex, of Macau Radio. Throughout his musical career, he played with the Seventh Legion, Palma’s Gang, the Plopoplot Pot of Nuno Rebelo, and collaborated with Jorge Palma and Sérgio Godinho. He released his first solo album in 1998. In 2001, he formed, with Carlos Morgado and later with Cláudia Efe, the Micro Audio Waves (a band with which he recorded the sound track for a Rui Horta show in 2009). It has been divided in recent years by projects and initiatives of a different character in the musical environment.