Portuguese electric guitarist Luis Lopes met Chicago free improvising cellist and electronic artist Fred Lonberg-Holm in the studio in Lisbon to record these five improvisations, both using innovative approaches to effect processing to expand their sound into unusual sonic environments, balancing beauty and abrasive sound.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded at Namouche Studios, Lisbon, Portugal, on April 30th. 2015.
"Lopes and Lonberg-Holm were recorded in Lisbon on April 2015, playing five untitled free-improvisations. Lonberg-Holm expands the cello's sonic envelope with assorted effects and pedals while Lopes employs his inventive, extended techniques on his effects-laden electric guitar, both transforming this duo into a much bigger sonic entity than just two musicians who play stringed instruments.
The five pieces are poetic and free-associative soundscapes that offer strange and psychedelic universes. On the first two pieces, Lopes and Lonberg-Holm sketch fragmented, kaleidoscopic colors on a huge constantly-shifting canvas, patiently varying the nuanced and expressive textures with deeper and deeper layers of sounds. The tense and intense "III" introduces a whole different atmosphere, chaotic and dense one as the two investigate series of distorted broken sounds. "IV" resumes the previous, abstract vein, but adds tougher and darker shades to the dense texture. "V" suggests a brutal, explosive drone, full of weird, arresting noises, all emphasizing the intuitive and deep affinity between Lopes and Lonberg-Holm."-Eyal Hareuveni, The Free Jazz Collective