Burgueses Famintos – Motores Gerais

Released on July 2, 2019 by Favela Discos, Motores Gerais is the second recorded album by the collective Burgueses Famintos.

Text-driven composition and sound merge in a hybrid territory where declarative voice, bass, pedal effects and loop station intertwine with visual improvisation, expressing an aesthetic of error and chaos turned manifesto. The record plunges into urban soundscapes, motorized metaphors and narrative tension, giving it a performative and unsettling character. Repeated or modulated poems that serve as structure evoke states of collapse, acceleration, wear and resistance — like engines that keep running yet are worn out. Motores Gerais thus stands as an audible and bodily document of music made of image, voice, noise and critical reflection, marking Burgueses Famintos’ unique position in Portugal’s experimental sound scene.