:papercutz is about adventurous pop music.

Started as Bruno Miguel's music project they're now a live band. Pursuing a balance between acoustic and electronic sounds on instrumental and vocal tracks, Bruno's young project has resulted from love of live instrumentation, organic electronics, dream like melodies, pop vocals and cinematic piano ambiences.

After appearances on various international compilations :papercutz signed their debut album Lylac to Montreal's Apegenine Recordings who has released music by artists like David Kristian, Emanuele Errante, Khonnor, Klaus Lunde (Xerxes), Julien Neto, among others and the album shows :papercutz stretching their song pop format further.

Their special edition single Ultravioleta rmx's features their album single "Ultravioleta" and remixes from known or emerging artists like The Sight Below (Ghostly International), Neotropic (Ninja Tune, Mush), Spandex (Sleep Debt, Hand on the Plow) and Signer (Carpark Records).

The group, who are now on tour promoting their debut album, won April this year an award on The People's Music Awards whose ceremony was held on London, gaining praises from the likes of BBC presenter Anne Nightingale, producer/composer Ian Sanderson or known XFM Producer, Eddy Temple-Morris and have been recently showcased by Myspace/Vodafone "Ones to Watch" in 2009, being the first Portuguese band ever to achieve such acknowledgement.

Now on UK Audiobulb Records :papercutz new release "Do outro lado do espelho (Lylac ambient reworks)" whose main title, in their Portuguese native language, means on the other side of the looking glass, is made up of diverse ambient interpretations from the album "Lylac" from well known and respected ambient and experimental artists (Taylor Deupree, Helios, Jasper TX, Simon Scott, among others) and a new :papercutz song specially composed for this album. Release expected for early 2010.