from
Portugal experimental underground 016 survey,
released September 24, 2016
Fernando Cerqueira, started is activities in the mid 80..s with his fanzine Atonal along with the electronic / industrial project CRONIAMANTAL which never released any album, some people say, despite the invitations they refused, only contributing for nacional and international compilations along with Clock Dva, Young Gods, Dive, Fini Tribe, Ah Cama - Sotz, Bourbonese Qualk, Von Magnet among many others.
His first adventure in setting up a music label was with SPH at the beginning of the 90´s which released 60 works with highlights such as JIM O´ROURKE , MERZBOW, KLIMPEREI, UWE ZAHN ( Arovane), MENTALO & THE FIXER, FEKTION FEKLER, INNANA, X RAY SPEX, SUICIDE COMMANDO, SYMBOLIKS ( Transglobal Underground), BRUME, ODE FILIPICA, CRONIAMANTAL, CRAWLING WITH TARTS( Michael Gendreau), MAEROR TRI(Troum), HATERS, TELECTU and many others.
Besides his musical projects he opened a seminal bookshop in Lisbon called LIGOTAGE which was a gathering for people interested in fringe/counterculture/occulture books like Re-Search, Body Play, Fethish, S & M, Drugs, Body Art, Archaic Revival, Topy, Alternative Lifestyles, Gaia, Apocalypse, Satanism, Erotica.
After some years of sucess the bookshop closed the doors and re-opened at ZDB - Art Gallery in Lisbon.
During that time, others Fernando Cerqueira activities included his involvement and promotion of TOPY ( Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth ) and Transmedia Foundation in Portugal, psychedelic books research for FLASHBACK Books ( mr. Horowitz, curator of Timothy Leary and father of Winona Rider ).Involvement in the production of concerts like, Young Gods, Non, Mimetic, Current 93, Death in June, Jorge Reyes, In the Nursery, Rapoon, Von Magnet.
Founder member of the collective/record label THISCO which released so far albums from RAPOON, MERZBOW, JARBOE, KK NULL, MIMETIC, PHIL VON, ALAN COURTIS, SHHH…, ULTRA MILKMAIDS, L..EGO, SPIES, SCI-FI INDUSTRIES, SAMUEL JERÓNIMO, [ F.E.V.E.R.], LASSE MARHAUG, RASAL.ASAD, PHIL VON, RANDY GRIEF, and many many others.
Fernando Cerqueira is the main man behind the production/ edition of thebook/ cd anthologies ANTIBOTHIS, featuring, Scanner, Francisco Lopez, Hakim Bey, Erik Davies, V. Vale, Adi Newton, Iona Miller, Critical Art Ensemble, Carl Abrahamsson, Chad Hensley, Joe Ambrose, Joe Coleman, Antero Alli, Jarboe, Lydia Lunch, among many others.
Rasalasad have several works released through Symbiose, Thisco, Illuminated Paths, Blocsonic, La Nostalgie de la Boue, among others and recorded several works wirh Jarboe, Von Magnet, Emil Beaulieau, Merzbow, Smell&Quim, Wild shores, irr.app.(ext.) Antonym among others.
More info at:
www.rasalasad.com