BIO : MINTA & THE BROOK TROUT

 


Meet Minta & The Brook Trout:


Francisca “Minta” Cortesão : vox, acoustic guitar (blue hoodie)

Mariana RIcardo : vox, bass, ukulele (grey hoodie)

Manuel Dordio : electric guitar, lap steel (black coat)

Nuno Pessoa : drums, percussion, vox (camel jacket)


(photo by Vera Marmelo, April 2012, Alvalade, Lisboa)


They live in Lisbon, Portugal, though they often flirt with other parts of the globe.


They have just released Olympia, their second album.


BLITZ music magazine and Radar radio, among other media, have selected as one of the best albums of the year.


“Olympia is an album where Francisca Cortesão’s singer-songwriter sensitivity flourishes among the vast landscape of Americana, which the band recovers naturally and purposefully – as if it were theirs (and it is, ladies and gentlemen, it is). Clinging to the songs, very attentively, we listen.” (Mário Lopes, Público)


Discography:


Olympia, 2012

Carnide (live album with very special guests), 2011

Minta & The Brook Trout, 2009

You (Minta’s debut EP), 2008


Go to La Maquina’s page on Minta & The Brook Trout for a proper bio (in Portuguese).