Because the screenings end and there is a whole city to discover, here are our IndieByNight picks. Opening the celebration of IndieLisboa’s 20th edition, Cosmos hosts the festival’s Anticipation Matinee next Saturday, April 22. The party starts at 6 pm and goes on until midnight. Sal Grosso opens the night with an arm-wrestling set between space, repetition, time and undiscovered and unlabelled emotions. Uncompromising, hypnotic and sometimes hallucinogenic, it exists at the maximum of the exploration of the senses. He arrives at Cosmos for a concert around the motifs of Istmo, third album of originals written over the last 2 years and that will be edited by Colectivo Casa Amarela still in April. This will be followed by a DJ set by Yasuhiro Morinaga, a Japanese sound artist living in Lisbon who will also be a jury member of the festival. He has developed a particular interest in ethnography and anthropology. His immersive sound work encourages an awareness of sound that goes unnoticed in everyday life. After a 4 year hiatus, Genes returns to records and stages to present his most recent LP of the same name, where rock and pop intersect with a psychedelic and dreamy universe. To be witnessed on the same night, at 9 pm. To close, a DJ set by Lucas Bicudo. DJ, booker and cultural programmer, responsible for the 1/4 Club project, which produces parties and represents DJs, mainly in the Brazil-Europe axis. He hosts a bi-monthly show on Veneno Live radio and his selections are a mix between past discoveries and recent productions by independent artists, between funk, house, disco, and other tropical rhythms. Throughout the matinee, tarologist Fut’cirínha is available for tarot consultations where she recommends a film based on the cards. Indie offers a ticket for the screening.
The following week, on the 28th, in the hangover of the film Trip, by Lilly Creightmore, present in IndieMusic’s programme, the mythical Rotterdam receives a night dedicated to psychedelia. Rita Braga opens the night, on her first concert in Lisbon since 2021. With influences from vaudeville, classic cinema, post-punk and cabaret, this is a singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist that constantly reinvents herself. She has collaborated with such luminaries as Ana da Silva (The Raincoats), Felix Kubin and Ian Svenonius. His fourth album, Illegal Planet, is due for release in the last quarter of this year. Next, a DJ set by Hakon Adalsteinsson, guitarist of the legendary The Brian Jonestown Massacre, a veritable institution of North American psychedelic rock. This is followed by another DJ set, this time by Molly Nilsson, a Berlin-based artist, singer, songwriter and producer, a fierce defender of D.Y.I. culture with an extensive solo tour across five continents. She has 10 albums and one hit – the unforgettable Hey Moon. To close, b2b of LikeFather and Mr.Mikk, to keep the dancefloor sweaty until 6 am.
The following day, the party is next door, at the equally mythical Musicbox. To celebrate the diptych Mal Viver | Viver Mal, by João Canijo, the Cais do Sodré club hosts a party with the supergroup Maria Putas Reis Bêbadas, a punk force that brings together two essential forces of the Lisbon music scene – Maria Reis and Putas Bêbadas. Then, the night is for dancing with DJ sets by Leonor Teles, Nuno Lopes and José Pimentão, names we associate with cinema and Canijo’s film, but who here reinvent themselves temporarily in the name of house, techno and disco.
On the 4th of May we head to Beato, for a party at the disco Gala Cricri, dedicated to the film Orlando, ma biographie politique, debut work by writer turned director Paul B. Preciado. The film takes the figure of Orlando by Virginia Woolf to contrast the history of the 1930s with contemporaneity, but continuing the considerations on gender as a social and political construction that goes beyond a bodily metamorphosis. This night’s programme will be announced soon.
New day, new party. After, a night film by Anthony Lapia, is the starting point for an after party at Arroz Estúdios, with Panzer and Van Der. Those who saw the film know what to expect from Panzer, the man responsible for the soundtrack – heavy, ripping techno, in a flirt with late-night vertigo. Opening, Vanderley Neves a.k.a. Van Der. He had his first contact with electronic music via Kuduro, House and Techno, having expanded his interest into the various ramifications of the latter.
Besides the parties, every night of the festival, after the end of the film screenings, the Love Lisbon Bar, in Arroios, is the meeting point for the festival’s crew, guests and audience.
IndieLisboa’s 20th edition will take place between Cinema São Jorge, Culturgest, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Cinema Ideal, Cinema Fernando Lopes and Penha de França Swimming Pool, from April 27 to May 7. Tickets are already on sale.
