Durutti Column - Friends in Portugal

Every now and then a band manages to put in a track the sound and the feel of a city. In "Menina ao pé de uma piscina" Vini Reily's guitar weeps like the gentle weeping of a fado guitar in a dark alley of Lisbon. The album was recorded in one night in a studio outside Lisbon and released in 1983 by the label Fundação Atlântica and has been reissued every now and then.
Vini Reily and Bruce Mitchel are the Durutti Column, an english band formed in 1978. and extremely famous in Portugal. The name of the band comes from Buenaventura Durriti, the men who led a column of anarchists fighters during the Spanish Civil War. Their first album received the name of "The Return of Durutti column" and was inspired by a poster from Situationist International featuring that phrase. Friends of Tony Wilson and of a number of people who contributed for the big revolution in modern musich in the eighties, from Ian Curtis to Morrisey, their's has been a quiet revolution through sound. For more insight on this band check also the albums "LC" or "The guitar and other machines".