A live performance at CreativeFest XIII at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon in 2019 from the quartet of Emilie Skrijelj on accordion, Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Mira on cello, and Tom Malmendier on percussion, Lluvia referencing Rain as the quartet quietly builds and releases tension through subtle cues, persistent figures, tonal innuendo and shades.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Live recording during the CreativeFest XIII at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 19th, 2019, by Miguel Azguime .
"[... Even shorter, and actually involving Mira (i.e. like Setubal, with which it shares some wave-like predilections...) is then Lluvia, including Emilie Skrijelj (accordion) and Tom Malmendier (percussion) to form a quartet around Rodrigues: I hadn't mentioned Skrijelj previously, but she also has a new duo album, Krci, on Creative Sources. Meanwhile, Malmendier had appeared with the quintet Escargot on the enigmatic Dart Love (discussed here in April 2018, and recalled in March around Dawa...). Lluvia suggests the ocean and static (which might be percussion) to start, but also comes to involve something of a process orientation around accordion ostinato, where intensity does tend to increase with repetition....]"-Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts