Stealing Orchestra is a band from Porto, Portugal that explores music through sampling and real instruments since 1997.
Think of all faux Spanish music that exists out there, then try to imagine what would happen if someone from the area began lampooning American culture with that inherent style.
from Atlantic Coast 2005 Portugal: A New Sound Portrait 2005 Bor Land Can Take You Anywhere You Want 2005 No Noise in Porto Vol.1 2003 Offline 1 2002 Your Imagination 2002 Cais do Rock Vol.4 2000 PressOn All EP's were released by their own netlabel You Are Not Stealing Records and are free to download.
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] João Mascarenhas also Srosh Collective, Salvatore, Dr. Phibes & The Ten Plagues of Egypt, G.G.Allin's Dick Pedro Costa also Party People in a Can Gustavo Costa also Srosh Collective, Genocide, Motornoise, F.R.I.C.S., Lost Gorbachevs, Most People Have Been Trained to Be Bored, Children for Breakfast & a lot more including collaborations with Barbez, Três Tristes Tigres, Damo Suzuki & John Zorn - The album Deliverance includes excerpts of an interview with Colin McGinn from the BBC series The Atheism Tapes - Covered songs: Star Wars Theme, Twilight Zone Theme, Hava Nagila, Katioucha, For Me Formidable, Summer of 42, Maravilhoso Coração Maravilhoso, Oye Como Va, Anniversary Song and Tetris Theme.
- Mixed bands: Mão Morta, The Legendary Tiger Man, Supernova, Bildmeister, Alla Pollaca, Kubik e Holocausto Canibal - The band won 5 Press Awards and 1 Best Experimental Demo Award in the Portuguese Prémios Maquete 1998 with their first demo - Stereogamy and The Incredible Shrinking Band were considered by Portuguese press as two of the best albums of 2000 and 2003 respectively - The retail chain Fnac included The Incredible Shrinking Band in a book with the 231 best Portuguese albums of the last 50 years.