Norberto Lobo

Acclaimed musician and guitar player to whom words of praise are running increasingly scarce, since the release of his classic debut ‘Mudar de Bina’ in 2007. His fourth record ‘Mel Azul’ was considered one of best portuguese albums of 2012 for most of the major press and online publications, including album of the year for Time Out Lisbon, after winning that distinction the previous year with ‘Fala Mansa’ in the influential BLITZ magazine. A true original and free thinker, Noberto Lobo’s music reflects a rare quality in the aesthethic progressions of today. The search for the unheard coexists with composition and interpretation as a personal exercise of communication and communion with the audience. Norberto Lobo doesn’t belong to any school, but it’s safe to say he learns from almost (if not all) of them, making any attempt to inscribe his work in a particular lineage largely inaccurate. He toured and shared the stage with a varied number of international musicians, such as Lhasa de Sela, Devendra Banhart, Larkin Grimm, Naná Vasconcelos or Rhys Chatham, and plays regularly all over Europe, with some memorable appearances in London (Cafe OTO, Calouste Gulbenkian foundation or Hackney Round Chapel with Dead Combo), as well as successive tours in the scandinavian territory, where he is the object of notable devotion.