Artist description DWART grew up on electronic and techno cultures. From Düsseldorf to Ibiza, between West and East, since Stockausen till Underworld, far away from nasty light music and rock´n rotten showbiz system, Techno is freedom, dance, and global art music.

Music Style Global Electronic / Reactive Techno / Sonic Experience / Exotic Soundscapes

Musical Influences Steve Hillage, Kraftwerk, Faust, AshRa Temple, Can, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Brian Eno, Telectu, Michael Brook, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Orb, Massive Attack, William Orbit, Banco de Gaia, Orbital, Chemical Brothers, Chicane, Underworld .

Artist History DWART was formed in Lisbon 1985 and performed first live acts at galleries, clubs and art events in Portugal, as a duo line-up: myself, António Duarte, on synthesizers, drumboxes, synth guitar and soundtracks; Manuela Duarte on vocoder, voice processors, stage acting painting and performance. The first band recordings were included in a vinyl collection (Dansa do Som, 1986) of best live gigs at Lisbon legendary RockRendezVous club. As a journalist I moved to Macau, South China, in 1987, and so did it DWART and my small mobile studio. Up there new sources of inspiration shapped new directions for DWART's music. Independent musicians from Macau, mainland China, Hong Kong, and even from France, Brazil and Mexico used to join us at studio jam sessions in the chinese enclave. Dozens of DAT tapes were recorded from this relaxing multietnic musical sessions. China provided me such unforgettable musical experiences, as beeing keyboard player and the executive producer on TELECTU's "Biombos" (1994), the first foreign CD recorded, released and distributed in People's Republic of China by state run company China Recording Corporation. China work lead DWART to a close encounter with World Music: I played chinese Guzheng on the official anthem of World Exhibition EXPO 98 (Lisbon), by invitation of Portuguese composer and musician NUNO REBELO. I learned Guzheng basics with Macau Chinese Orchestra's director WONG KIN WAI, and later I had Erhu classes that made me discover the richness and contemporary aproach of chinese music. Because I'm also a reporter, when I make music it's like writting a story by other means. Sounds and colours from Chinese day life and mass culture have been a permanent source of inspiration or motives for DWART's music. I was a guest soundtrack composer for "Six Chinese Stories About One Table and Two Chairs", a performance show from JANE LEI's COMUNA DE PEDRA, at Hong Kong JOURNEY TO THE EAST multimedia festival (Hong Kong Cultural Centre, 1999). Since 1997 DWART became basically a one musician project, so my work have been focused on discipline and studio production. I returned back to Portugal in the new millenium with a bag full of electronic songs recorded and edited in Macau (DimSumStudio) and around South China (mainly in hotel rooms). The songs from that period (1997/2000) have been selected, overdubbed, mixed up and mastered in Lisbon to be released soon as a trilogy (three CD's), under the title "Red Tapes".

Group Members ANTÓNIO DUARTE: All songs, instruments, recording & mixing. Manuela Duarte: Piano and synth occasionally.

Instruments Analog synthesizers.sampling keyboards.vocoder.fender rhodes.drumboxes.sequencers.percussions.guitars.DATsoundtracks.macOS music software & audio libraries.

Additional Info DWART bio&info in portuguese at: http://DWART.planetaclix.pt

Location Lisbon, Lisbon - Portugal

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