A live recording from the acoustic septet Free Music 7tet of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Luiz Rocha (clarinets), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Eduardo Chagas (trombone), and (piano), Hernani Faustino (double bass) and Paulo Ferreira Lopes (drums), performing at O'Culto da Ajuda, for five improvisations from active free improv to lowercase exploration.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Portugal Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded live at O'Culto da Ajuda, in Lisbon, Portugal, on February 26th, 2018, by Andre Hencleeday
"Meandros e Vertentes was released on April 4, 2018 by "Creative Sources". Evocative and interesting avant-garde jazz album was recorded by "Free Music 7tet". "Free Music 7tet" is experimental jazz ensemble, which consists of seven experienced and creative avant-garde jazz masters - Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Luiz Rocha (clarinet & bass clarinet), Guilherme Rodrigues (cello), Eduardo Chagas (trombone), and (piano), Hernâni Faustino (double bass) and Paulo Ferreira Lopes (drums). "Free Music 7tet" members are famous in cntemporary experimental jazz scene - they have specific playing style, like brave and innovative musical experiments and create unusual and interesting sound. Their individual improvisations are gently blended together in the compositions by "Free Music 7tet". The msuical pattern has many different layers and colors - individual melodies, bright musical language by each musician, sound experiments, franky and inventive musical decisions, spontaneous improvisations, the combinations between various music styles are the main elements of these compositions. The musicians like to blend together avant-garde jazz, fre, creative, bebop, post-bop, hard-bop, intonations of contemporary experimental music and very mild tones of contemporary academic avant-garde, the elements of various countries ethnical music and many other styles. Musicians are creating the compositions in the spot and it makes an effort - helps musicians to create contrasting, expressive and bright sound. [...]"-Avant Scena