Sean Riley & The Slowriders
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Sean Riley & The Slowriders is a portuguese
band from Leiria
with a sound close to music of americana
roots such as folk
, rock
and blues
. The band is slated to represent Portugal at the 2010 Eurosonic Festival
.
he met other radio hosts, Bruno Simões (ex-Tu Metes Nojo) and Filipe Costa who joined in. Filipe Rocha was the fourth musician to complete the band.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
band from Leiria
Leiria
Leiria is a city in Leiria Municipality in the Centro Region, Portugal. It is the capital of Leiria District. The city proper has 50,200 inhabitants and the entire municipality has nearly 120,000...
with a sound close to music of americana
Americana (music)
Americana is an amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles...
roots such as folk
Folk music
Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....
, rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
and blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
. The band is slated to represent Portugal at the 2010 Eurosonic Festival
Eurosonic Festival
Eurosonic is Europe’s largest showcase festival and takes place on a yearly basis on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday previous to Noorderslag festival in the dutch city Groningen. Eurosonic is part of The European Music Conference and Showcase Festival Eurosonic Noorderslag. During the festival 250...
.
History
Afonso Rodrigues, the front-man, started out by writing songs on his own under the alter-ego Sean Riley. While DJing at Rádio Universidade de CoimbraRadio Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra University Radio is a university radio station of the Coimbra Academic Association of the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. It broadcasts on 107.9 FM . The Center of Experimental Radio was founded in the 40's, but it is only on March, 1st 1986...
he met other radio hosts, Bruno Simões (ex-Tu Metes Nojo) and Filipe Costa who joined in. Filipe Rocha was the fourth musician to complete the band.
Discography
- Farewell (CD, 2007)
- Moving On (Vinyl, 2007)
- Only Time Will Tell (CD, 2009)
- It's Been A Long Night (CD, 2011)
Members
- Afonso Rodrigues (voice, guitar, harmonica, organ),
- Filipe Costa (organ, piano, guitar, bass, drums, harmonica),
- Bruno Simões (bass, guitar, melodica),
- Filipe Rocha (drums, upright bass, glockenspiel)