Amuleto Apotropaico + Karen Ng
Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 20:30 · Damas, Lisbon · €7
Amuleto Apotropaico (Live) Full-spectrum percussion oscillating between elastic polyrhythms and pointillist, gridless movement, unfolding within an ever-modulating atmosphere of polyphonic resonators. Apparition-like drones dissolved by spastic digital strokes, reaching for quickly fading patterns. Following the 2025 self-titled release, Portuguese experimental musician António Feiteira’s Amuleto Apotropaico shifts its instrument-based music into fully electronic arrangements of concrète percussion. Drawing inspiration from Milford Graves’s conversion of the body’s secret rhythms into function generators, Feiteira performs within a system designed to emulate his own improvisational drumming language— session recordings of the drum kit are replaced by sample-based compositions, muscular-memories give way to MIDI-driven automations. Karen Ng (Live) Toronto-based improviser Karen Ng has established herself as a unique musical force nationally and internationally. Over the last 15 years audiences have come to know her distinctive tone and remarkable offerings in a variety of contexts performing with some of Canada’s most prized artists (The Weather Station, Andy Shauf, Do Make Say…