"Amigos Em Portugal" reeditado!

Digitally re-mastered from vinyl, this is a limited re-release of the hard to find import Amigos Em Portugal. 'Amigos..' was released first time around in 1983 is a pre-cursor to one of the great Durutti Column albums Without Mercy although ironically it was supposed to be something more along the lines of something shorter. Recorded over a matter of only a couple of days – such is always the case with Vini Reilly - the album allegedly was supposed to be a single or extended play and Vini was just enjoying the tape time playing many of the current work in progress pieces which later became part of the classical experiment with Music degree students Without Mercy. The newly-formed Portuguese label had the tapes and different a idea! Having heard several versions of events it is safe to at least say it was not quite as expected by either Factory or the band at the time. Most of the tracks here have a beautiful fragility whether just solo guitar instrumentals 'Estoril a Noire' or piano pieces such as 'Wheels Turning' or the piano loop from Without Mercy 'Favourite descending intervals'. Yes... the times when Vini played piano... the years before he believed he was 'an awful and discombobulated pianist' in his own words. It is the second release in a series of limited re-issues from the band on the imprint durutticolumn.com, the first of which Live At The Venue sold out on pre-sale. Three or four other albums of rare or previously unreleased material are planned over the next eighteen months. All will be 1000 copy only pressings.

Ao que sei está disponível (pelo menos) na Piranha (Porto) e Fnac Chiado.

[fonte: Tone Vendor]