Mark Matos & Os Beaches

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Born into a family of Azorean exiles fleeing the Salazar Dictatorship (Portugal, 1932- 1974), Mark Matos was birthed in the San Francisco Bay Area just weeks after the leftist Carnation Revolution deposed Salazar's Estado Novo. Matos was raised in the large Portuguese immigrant community in California's Bay Area and Central Valley, where his father and grandfather founded one of the Bay Area's first Portuguese marching bands and were instrumental in bringing Portuguese Fado musicians to the Bay Area. Matos' father had been drafted into Salazar's doomed African Colonial Wars in 1966 and left Angola, Africa in 1969 a committed pacifist and bound for San Francisco, CA. As a child Matos' first exposure to music came listening to his father's radio show, which aired on a small Portuguese radio station in San Jose, CA. He later would wear the grooves off of his uncle's copy of Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, before discovering the Beatles, Willie Nelson, The Grateful Dead, Caetano Veloso, and The Velvet Underground. Shortly after graduating high school, Matos hitchhiked out of town, searching for life and music in the American Wilderness. Inspired by the beat generation, the following decade was spent on the road; washing dishes in Alaska, cold in Boston drunk tanks, amongst slack key players in Hawaii, countless couches in Seattle's Capital Hill, all the while honing his craft, sharpening his philosophies, finding his voice. By 2003 Matos had settled in Tucson

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Words of the Knife

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Coyote and the Crosser

Coyote & The Crosser

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UnderCover Presents: The Velvet Underground and Nico

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The Velvet Underground & Nico Tribute

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Porto Franco Records Sampler 2: Winter-Spring '10

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Word of the knife

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UnderCover Presents A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico

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Awesome Mixtape 059

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Undercover Presents: the Velvet Underground & Nico

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Porto France Records Sampler

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Today's Blog Music - The Hype Machine

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