Gomo

When Portugal’s radio listeners first encountered the genre-blending, Cornelius-like sounds of Gomo, these were entranced. It had been 2001 and Gomo’s demonstration was placed into regular rotation, however the DJs had been of no help when listeners phoned in, requesting, “Where may i get this wonderful and unusual music?” Paulo Gouveia, the person who’s Gomo, had delivered the demonstration to r / c with no get in touch with information — only a take note stating: “Thanks a lot for all your inspiration. Hope you prefer this.” The multi-instrumentalist was focusing on brand-new songs along with a media live present while all of this was heading on, and he previously no idea Gomo was getting an overnight preferred. Reviews within the nationwide press as well as the invitations to try out a lot of the main summer celebrations in Portugal clued him into the sensation and shortly he was dealing with Mário Barreiros, the manufacturer who was partially in charge of Silence 4’s popularity of Portugal’s pop graphs. It had been an odd name to get a debut but Greatest of Gomo was the effect, as well as the quirky, valuable, and playful record became a radio and music press preferred when it made an appearance in early 2004. During Oct of the same 12 months Gomo won the very best New Artist honor distributed by Portugal’s SIC Television, and he was also nominated as Greatest Portuguese Act in the MTV Western Music Honours 2004.