Pop Dell'Arte - Sem Nome (Official Video)

It could be untitled, but Pop Dell’Arte chose “Sem Nome”. This is, despite the paradox, the name of the new single extracted from Transgressio Global, an album that would mark the band's return to records after Contra Mundum (2010), but which saw its release postponed (should have happened today) to date announce soon.

João Peste, full name João Luís Peste Santos Guerreiro (Campo de Ourique, Lisbon - 9 September 1962) is a Portuguese musician, mentor and vocalist of Pop Dell'Arte.

He joined ISCTE in 1980, where he completed a degree in Sociology in 1985. That same year, he formed the band Pop Dell'Arte, which won the prize for originality in the 2nd Modern Music Competition of Rock Rendez-Vous. In 1986 he created the publisher Ama Romanta, together with Maria João Serra, a publisher who on May 28th of that year released the album Divergências which, in addition to an interview, made and music by João Peste, to sociologist José Manuel Paquete de Oliveira, has the participation of names like Pop Dell'Arte, Mler Ife Dada, Essa Entente, Anamar, Croix Sainte, Final Scream, The Young Guard, SPQR, Extreme Unction, General Line and The Dogs to Death & Desire, among others.

It could be untitled, but Pop Dell’Arte chose “Sem Nome”. This is, despite the paradox, the name of the new single extracted from Transgressio Global, an album that would mark the band's return to records after Contra Mundum (2010), but which saw its release postponed (should have happened today) to date announce soon.

João Peste's discography with Pop Dell'Arte dates back to February 1987 when Ama Romanta published the max-single Querelle. Still in 1987, Ama Romanta released the single Dreams Pop (in November 1986) and the album Free Pop (in December 1987) with covers by Nuno Leonel and João Peste with graphics by Rafael Toral, respectively . Free Pop appears on several lists of the best Portuguese albums ever - Blitz, Público, Diário de Notícias, FNAC and Câmara Clara of RTP-2. The English newspaper Sounds even gave 4.5 points (out of 5 possible) to Free Pop in an article written by the famous musician and journalist John Robb in 1988, while Ricardo Saló wrote in Expresso in June 2011, which is perhaps the best Portuguese album from the 80s.

The records Free Pop and Sonhos Pop were presented live at Aula Magna in Lisbon, in a historic concert, organized by R.U.T. - Rádio Universidade Tejo and Ama Romanta in January 1988. Criticism of the album was divided between accusations of fraud at Se7e and praise for genius in the weekly Expresso, (João Lisboa). The controversy was so great that the TSF even made a program about the controversy of Pop dell'Arte, which aired on several European radio stations.