A collaborative French instrumental rock band led by and with compositions from the core quartet of Anthony Belguise (drums), Jean-Loup Faurat (guitar), Regis Laugier (bass) and Nico Morcillo (guitar), with a list of 22 international guests across 8 songs and instrumentals, including Rafael Toral, Maria Radich, Paulo Furtado, Carlos Zingaro, Rui Carvalho, &c.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Black Sheep Studios, in Sintra, Portugal, except The Round Around and Jeu Dit Sous Le Vent, recorded at Namouche Studios, in Lisbon, Portugal, by Guilherme Goncalves.
"Hifiklub is a French instrumental ensemble open to collaboration and experimentation. Since 2007, the band has been building a protean work that evolves through encounters. Hyperpeactive, the quartet from Toulon has a wide catalog, constantly changing, unveiling the fertile artistic friendships that the group has been able to establish and perpetuate for ten years to explore the field of possibilities of music, image and of text."-Revolvy
"With "E Lisboa", French experimental rock quartet Hifiklub goes to the last consequences in the application of their collaborative program. They once again develop a project in the "home" of their own guests, something they did before, for instance, with Lee Ranaldo for the creation of "In Doubt, Shaddow Him!", a movie about Ranaldo himself, but now they give a big step further, so rare that it comes as an absolute novelty: they also manage to show an incredible understandment of a whole musical scene, mobilizing people coming from several genres, styles and tendencies (from pop and rock to experimental music and free improvisation) of a country living now a very particular explosion of creativity: Portugal.
It isn't the first time Anthony Belguise, Jean-Loup Faurat, Regis Laugier and Nico Morcillo show an interest in the Portuguese musicianship, as their previous partnerships with The Legendary Tigerman (blues-rock singer and guitarist Paulo Furtado, who is again a contributor) and the rock-fado-country-jazz band Dead Combo testify, but now they have some of the most distinctive personalities of this very special activity with them, like Carlos "Zingaro", Joana Gama, Rafael Toral, Ana Deus, Lula Pena, Rita Braga, Von Calhau (Marta Angela and Joao Artur), Bernardo Devlin, Yaw Tembe and Maria Radich, to name just a few.
Never before such different artists had the opportunity to do something in the middle-ground. Four pairs of ears from other geographic origin were necessary to find connections and ensemble them, resulting in this mind-blowing work which we can expect will change everything in the most Western territory of the European continent."-Shhpuma