At this point it would not be superfluous to write more than this: Bruno Nogueira, Manuela Azevedo, Felipe Melo, Nuno Rafael and Nelson Cascais gave one of the best compliments to “Bemba” (famous, piriero, malandro, sentimental) that anyone could to do.
With about ten years of ‘shooting’, Leave Bimba in Peace may have become a ensemble: it is a ‘roadshow’ that highlights the irresistible, perhaps vital, characteristics of a culture considered low, shifting categorization into the realm of cognition.
The crowd on the main stage of Primavera Sound Porto filled in little by little, in a sun-kissed setting on the sea side (however, black clouds appear again), with a gravel floor after the previous day’s bog. Please Oscar, Depression Award Winner, Leave Us Alone.
Dressed as the five “Pimbas” in 50 minutes she received a musical repertoire that goes both to cabaret and to ballads, offering songs for characters like Quim Barreiros or Ágata’s outfits that perfectly fit them. The effect is this: that pimba takes off the cheap clothes and wears a more expensive brand, but instead of doing it just to show status, she discovers that after all there are other clothes that look good on her.
Bruno Nogueira is the master of ceremonies, a comedian who makes humor and sings as best he can (and he can’t go wrong), Manuela Azevedo is the “musical” professional vocalist, using her tremendous voice (the best of all the country pop/rock) as if to Every song came out of her womb. She’s also the group’s percussionist, brilliantly doing a job that needed little or nothing to get her going in Clã. Milo, Rafael and Cascais are the masters of luxury.
From ’24 Rosas’ (José Malhoa) to ‘Os Bichos da Fazenda’ (Quim Barreiros), the bar has always been kept very high: ‘Nobody, nobody’ and ‘Taras e Manias’ (Marco Paolo), ‘The funny Vem Devagar, Emigrante (Graciano Saga), in semi-tragic rap, “Bebé” (Romana) with a fierce rhythm, “A Garagem da Vizinha” (again Quim) in its allegorical motifs, and a few others, a distinct national character left their mark in the tenth edition of the Porto Festival.
