Acoustic and sublime minimal acoustic improvisation with an emphasis on strings from the Portuguese quintet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola, Miguel Almeida on acoustic guitar, Andre Lanca on electric guitar, Bernardo Alvares on double bass, and Felice Furioso on percussion, performing live during the Small Format Materials Festival at Galeria Monumental, in Lisbon.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live during the Small Format Materials Festival at Galeria Monumental, in Lisbon, Portugal, on March 5th, 2020, by Pedro Goncalves.
1. Un Seul Regard Le Chant Petri De Beaute Un Mot Vert 32:04
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"Un Seul Regard Le Chant Petri De Beaute Un Mot Vert is another rather subtle and wave-like album, using a process approach (presumably) to illuminate some potentially fragile relations. (And in this, it does follow the "wave" trend noted around recent albums like Setubal and Lluvia in the prior entry....) So Un Seul Regard Le Chant Petri De Beaute Un Mot Vert involves guitarists (to continue a theme) Miguel Almeida (on acoustic, e.g. from Spiegel II as also just discussed this month, or e.g. Stratus) and Andre Lanca (who is new to me, on electric) joining Rodrigues, Bernardo Alvares (double bass, with which he appears on long-time quartet favorite New Dynamics, as coincidentally just mentioned...) and Felice Furioso (percussion, noted here in October 2018 as part of the quartet with voice 4! on Factorial). And it begins with what sound like whistling horns, into a quiet twittering of building continuity and flow, a slow shimmering wave of expansion and contraction, with percussion almost seeming to mark the depth of dark running water... at times yielding almost a New Age vibe joined to a subtle industrial rattle. It's a relatively large ensemble, but some performers are often acting to accent a more general, otherwise murky wave - while exploring various sorts of continuity, propulsion and cresting. (Another sort of interrogation that such a performance suggests to me is between sustained tones and more fractured or percussive material: Such a basic contrast is already found in Cage, but sustained tones and different kinds of pulsation appear to be gaining a new currency of late.... One might then posit a smoothness-rupture dual particularly around notions of process.)"-Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts