Joao Cla Dias

Torga Ostera is a promising new band from central Portugal that consists of João Francisco on vocals and guitar, Jorge Marinheiro on keyboards, Eurico Moleirinho on bass and Renato Dias on drums. They describe themselves as a Space Rock-inspired band and they sure produce the goods with a blend of music that's fashioned around late-sixties and seventies British psychedelic rock and Portuguese music. The sound of their debut album is primarily based on mellow Pink Floyd inspired grooves, not unlike some of the works of ELOY and Novalis, but also modern bands like Negative Zone and Airbag, although unlike those bands, lyrics are in the band's mother tongue, where comparisons might be draw with the work of fellow Portuguese artists like Petrus Castrus, Jorge Palma or the more recent Toranja.