muzycy:
Marcelo dos Reis: guitar, prepared guitar
Álvaro Rosso: double bass
João Valinho: percussion
Albert Cirera: saxophone
João Almeida: trumpet

After six years organizing the Faroeste-EMCCI(1) series with Grémio Caldense, one thing that stood out for me in the portuguese improv scene is that it is all about encounters. Souls that rhizomatically meet and fall in love at random points of their paths, some more others less, creating special moments that get engraved in space and time, sometimes in records like this one.
It was november 2020, during the pandemic isolation period. It had become clear for us by then that making the effort for this rhizoma not to dry out and break was mandatory, even though it would mean organizing these encounters for an absent and invisible audience.
The drive to do this came from the radio project called EIRA, from our neighbors OSSO Colectivo, who curated several sound projects to be presented through this media. As a guest resident in this project, Grémio proposed during the first three editions, a series of concerts that disturbed the stillness our activity had so forcefully plunged into.
This concert was broadcasted the following month in the third edition of EIRA, locally in FM waves, and worldwide through the web. This and other solutions alike, devised to counter the abyss artists and other cultural agents were facing then, stressed the importance of the role promoters and curators play in the scene, not reducing their work as menu designers but more important as designers of structures, especially for such fragile ecosystems as is the one of exploratory art.…
The moment that resulted in this recording was brought forward by the young and restless trumpet player from Lisbon João Almeida, who besides several encounters like this one, takes also part in other more settled projects and working bands like Peachfuzz, Chão Maior, Medusa Unit, Garfo and Hocus, his most recent solo electronic project on the no-input mixer. The musicians gathered for this occasion in Caldas da Rainha, need no presentation, being some of the most prolifi.......
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Sprawcą tego projektu jest młody i niespokojny trębacz z Lizbony João Almeida, który oprócz improwizowanych meetingach, bierze również udział w działających zespołach, takich jak Peachfuzz, Chão Maior, Medusa Unit, Garfo i Hocus. Pozostali muzycy zebrani na tę okazję w Caldas da Rainha, nie potrzebują rekomendacji, należą do najbardziej płodnych w rodzinie free improv w Portugalii, Marcelo dos Reis (gitara akustyczna), João Valinho (perkusja), Alvaro Rosso (kontrabas) i kataloński saksofonista Albert Cirera (tenor i sopran).
W pięćdziesięciominutowym secie, wysoce perkusyjne arpeggia Dos Reisa, szorstki, punktowy drumming zestawu perkusyjnego Valinho, budujący dronowy kręgosłup Rosso, zapadające w pamięć interwały i przeszywające wybrzmienie pocket trumpet Almeidy, i barokowe, zabawne eksploracje Cirery, dodatkowo wzmocnione przez fascynującą akustykę kościoła Espírito Santo, stworzyły crescendo napięć i kulminacji, ciszy i chaosu, to piękne kameralne arcydzieło, którego byliśmy udziałowcami, a które okazało się jednym z najbardziej nierealnych momentów naszej najnowszej historii.
Ricardo Pimentel - kurator dyrektor techniczny Grémio Caldenser and technical director at Grémio Caldense
(1) Faroeste - Encontro de Música de Câmara Contemporânea e Improvisada