ARTISTS
Francisco F Cerqueira
Born in Porto, Noise Sound Collector and Machine Maker.
He was guitarist for the damned Guru Paraplégico e Os Iconoclastas, an unclassifiable band from Porto in the late 80s, which mercilessly disturbed sensitive souls in the so-called radical musical circles and was finally, post-mortem, edited in 2019 through a CD-Book "Musonautas, Visões & Avarias", from the Porto City Council (Musonautas (2019, CD) - Discogs).
Often lost with pseudonyms in digital creations, animated films or sound installations, he wandered around the world.
But the pandemic brought him home, to his memories, to his old city, now empty, without people...
There he found Louisville.
Guilherme Lucas
Born in Portugal in 1964, Guilherme Lucas is a musician and a gig goer, with written opinion.
Guitarist in Portuguese rock bands since the 80’s, such as Martinis, Cães Vadios, Dead Singer and GG Ramone.
Nowadays, he is the musician and composer in Radio Bukowski, a lo-fi project dedicated to building electric guitar background
sounds to the poetry recited by the late writer Charles Bukowski.
Author of "Barbarella" theme in the album "Louisville".
Pedro Sousa Pereira
Born in Angola in 1966, Pereira is a journalist and illustrator of the work of dead poets.
Having illustrated “Message”, “Maritime Ode”, “The Tobacconist’s”, “Triumphal Ode” and “Lisbon Revisited”, by Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Cesário Verde”, by Cesário Verde and “Alone”, by António Nobre, he is currently working on drawings for Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and “Desenhos Desanimados” (Despondent Drawings) for a text by Pedro Khron.
Paulo Rodrigues
Paulo, 62 years old Punk, blues, jazz, ska, reggae, anyway... rock 'n' roll is my daily vitamin that keeps me going, with some supplements like movies, theater, and reading as an essential tonic in this increasingly backward place (world)... ah ah ah
Oscar Pinho
I was born in 1967 a few months before the Summer Of Love. Nothing particularly interesting happened in my life until I discovered punk rock and started to drink alcohol. After being a pretty solitary nerd, around 1983/84 I got myself a good bunch of friends a little older than me (some involved in the compilation) which showed me, amongst many other things, the music of MC5 (which I loved ever since). A couple of adventurous trips to London and the intake of some unprescribed drugs helped to open my mind.
At the end of 1985 I did Tosse Convulsa with Guilherme Lucas, the 1st punk oriented fanzine issued in the north of Portugal.
After some unfruitful tries to play an instrument I got invited to be the bass player of Cagalhões, a quite original hardcore band from Aveiro: It didn’t matter that I couldn’t play because they were as lousy as me. Played with them in 1987 and 1988 until I got fed up with their careless attitude towards music and after doing only 1 gig (a pretty violent one).
Mário Cruz
Mario Cruz is an independent photographer, editor and curator focused on social injustice and human rights issues.
His projects have been recognized worldwide.
Recent Blindness - Estacao Imagem 2014 Award; Talibes: Modern Day Slaves - World Press Photo 2016, Picture Of the Year 2016, Magnum Photography Awards 2016; Estação Imagem Award 2016; Living Among What’s Left Behind – World Press Photo 2019, Portuguese Society of Authors - Best photography exhibition 2020; Roof - Magnum 30 Under 30 Award 2015, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award 2024, CCP 2025 Award best Book design.
His work has been published in Newsweek, International New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, El Pais, CTXT and Neue Zurcher Zeitung.
Mario Cruz made all the photos for the album "Louisville" about United States, in 2020
Valdemar Torres
Born a long time ago in Oporto, Portugal. His childhood and pre-adolescence were deeply influenced by Karl Marx and Sandokan.
From a very early stage, he was attracted to literature, films and especially music from a dissent kind.
After Marx, came The Virgin Prunes, Pasolini, Camus… But with Sandokan forever present!
Tired of the small, shy and decrepit city of Oporto, he moved to London, where he lived for many years and had countless adventures of which, details are now uncalled for.
There he met his Spanish wife to be, Miriam, and soon they decided to go and live in Asturias, Spain, where they had a daughter, who they called Morgana.
With the firm intention of providing her with the same interesting youth they had both enjoyed, they moved to Rome, Italy, where they now set up camp.
He is an english and portuguese teacher, has a dog and an enormous amount of books, records and memories.
LONG LIVE MOMPRACEM !
Rick Blackman
Rick Blackman is a musician, songwriter, arranger and producer from London who has worked on many projects alongside artists such as Paul Weller, Mick Jones, Glen Matlock, Rumer and more.
He has released several albums with his own band The Cavendish Set and has had his songs play-listed and voted ‘songs of the week’ on BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music.
Has been active since the 1980s at the intersection of music, subcultures, and political engagement, and is particularly known for his involvement in anti-fascist and anti-racist campaigns such as Love Music Hate Racism.
As an author, he wrote Babylon’s Burning, a key work that examines music and youth subcultures in the UK as sites of political contestation and anti-fascist struggle, combining cultural history with activism.
Amândio Barbosa
