Seven years (!) after the first revolutionary arrival from the Argentinian musician, sound explorer and educator Alan Courtis to Barreiro – working creatively with more than a dozen members of Associação NÓS – formerly known as “We2” but now definitively as “Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos”, and three years after their last performance (this wonderful show, held at the very beginning of the pandemic, is available to watch in full here), it’s with the utmost pleasure that this project returns, living proof of the transforming power of music and its capacity to promote capability, autonomy and free expression.
Assisted by the musicians Bernardo Álvares and Leonardo Bindilatti, Alan Courtis and the “Heróis” get back together for a week of creative creation that culminates in a new live performance, at Biblioteca Municipal do Barreiro,, where little can be said about what to expect musically - more than genre or style, it’s the personality of each element and the collective identity that originates during the workshop that will certainly be heard; it’s safe to expect sonic poetry, psychedelia, free folk, adapted football anthems - but it’s best to leave tags and genres aside when the music will be, above all else, intensely free and unequivocally personal.
