TRAVO’s Broken Guitar, Blurred Realities, and the Weight of a KEXP Debut

It’s early morning in France. Someone’s lost Gonçalo’s guitar. When it finally shows up, it’s cracked and bruised, like it’s been on its own little tour. Still, that’s the one he ends up using to record TRAVO’s live session for KEXP. It sounds like it’s been through something. So does the band. TRAVO’s been grinding for years. Braga, Portugal isn’t exactly the psychedelic capital of Europe, but they’ve carved something out: two albums (Ano Luz, 2019; Sinking Creation, 2022) that hinted at something larger, and then Astromorph God in 2023, which made the promise impossible to ignore. It came out