**MIL AFTER PARTY - PORTAS À 1H00 DA MANHÃ**

**ANA PRIOR**

Anna Prior is more than just the drummer in globally successful band Metronomy, she’s a DJ and musician in her own right. Anna’s monthly radio show, Beat Palace, on London’s Soho Radio has many devoted listeners. She describes her show as an explorative mission into the rhythmical unknown. The same can be said of her DJ sets and live performances.

Anna began her career in music 20 years ago, perfecting her craft and gaining invaluable experience as a performer in the live music scene - more notably with Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange and with her friends and co-conspirators Metronomy, with whom she has been going steady for over a decade.

The desire to start her own label had been brewing over the many years she spent on the other side of the music industry. Curious about this mysterious other world and becoming more and more inspired by the music she played on her radio show, Anna took the plunge in 2021 and founded Beat Palace Records. With the label’s logo being designed by her sister, Kate Prior; photography for her debut release taken by Cristiana Morais; a music video directed by Lydie Barbara and with an upcoming remix by the Portuguese producer Violet, it’s easy to understand where Anna’s intentions lie.

Anna returned from a month long North American tour to a locked down Europe. She found herself alone and with lots of unscheduled free time. She seized this opportunity to explore her solo musical ambitions. Anna found the initial demos flowed rather easily using a tiny midi keyboard gifted to her by a friend and with the use of the music software Ableton.

Anna describes, “after months of being trapped inside my apartment, I wanted to write music that was as summery as it was uplifting. I needed an escape and with the world engulfed in panic and uncertainty I created a summer holiday in my head, sat on a beach with a litre of sangria!”. However, the lyrics (coming much later than the music’s original conception), are not without drama. Anna eludes to the disappointment of an unrequited romance - knowing she had given everything she could, she evokes empowerment and strength to walk away from a one-sided love affair.

**SHERI VARI**

Com um currículo extenso que se prolonga por mais de uma década atrás dos pratos, Mariana Cruz sintetiza a toda uma vasta experiência como residente de inúmeros espaços, bem como convidada frequente de tantos outros, num pseudónimo que evoca história, respeito, segurança descomplexada e conhecimento de causa: Sheri Vari. O repertório não é tanto estilístico, mas principalmente conceptual: de downbeat sedutor a funk sintético, do clássico disco e new wave ao mais deep e sexy house, do emotivo techno de Detroit ao abrasivo acid de Chicago, dos sub graves londrinos ao atómico groove introspectivo berlinense, Sheri só está interessada em tocar uma coisa: a Verdade que perdurará.

This is a 16+ event

ANNA PRIOR + SHERI VARI

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Musicbox Lisboa

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