João Mortágua - HOLI GEO [2023]

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Based on solo improvisations played in different spots of Convento S. Francisco (Coimbra). Using the idea of overlaying (integral) takes, this HOLI debut album explores the echoes of our memory, individual and collective, in time and space. This is part of a collaborative work between João Mortágua and João Vasco Paiva, that you can watch here --> vimeo.com/821780496

lançado em 28 de abril de 2023

Recording/Mix: Sérgio Valmont

Artwork: João Vasco Paiva

Apoio Garantir Cultura - Fundo de Fomento Cultural

João Mortágua uses D'Addario reeds

jazz rock chamber jazz idm. experimental improvised organic Coimbra

Luís Ribeiro - A Invenção da Ficção [2023]

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One moment nothing. On the other everything. All possibilities, all journeys, all versions of reality.

One moment silence. On the other music.

The initial premise of this work was the moment of the first step.

Is the first note correct? Is the first story true? Is the first improvisation fair?

Doubts that disappear immediately because the songs emancipate themselves. grow up quickly and escape our control. A control that never existed in the first place.

This work was written in two weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, at a time when the world stopped and I walked. It is the result of my partnership with five majestic musicians who shared my vision and who shone it with their light. It is the result of dawns, of stages, of conversations, of a life steeped in music.

One moment a blank page. On the other a drip of paint fell.

Num momento nada. No outro tudo. Todas as possibilidades, todas as viagens, todas as

versões da realidade.

Num momento silêncio. No outro música.

A premissa inicial deste trabalho foi o momento do primeiro passo.

A primeira nota é a correcta? A primeira história é a verdadeira? O primeiro improviso é o justo?

Dúvidas que se esfumam imediatamente porque as músicas emancipam-se. Crescem rapidamente e fogem do nosso controlo. Um controlo que nunca existe.

Este trabalho foi escrito em duas semanas no inicio da pandemia, numa altura em que o mundo

parou e eu andei. É resultado da minha parceria com cinco músicos majestosos que

partilharam a minha visão e que a encandearam com a sua luz. É o resultado de madrugadas,

de palcos, de conversas, de uma vida cravada na música.

Num momento uma página em branco. No outro uma pinga de tinta caiu. 

lançado em 11 de abril de 2023

Luis Ribeiro - Composition and Electric Guitar

Rui Teixeira - Baritone Saxophone and Bass Clarinet

Hugo Ciríaco - Tenor Saxophone

Joaquim Rodrigues - Piano

Miguel Ângelo - Doublebass

Marcos Cavaleiro - Drums

Gabriela Braga Simões - voice (track 1)

Artwork by Mariamonica.com

Label: portajazz.com/carimbo

Jazz Porto

Isaura - Invisível [2023]

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Invisível é o segundo álbum de estúdio da cantora e compositora portuguesa Isaura, lançado a 24 de março de 2023.

Este trabalho marca um ponto de viragem na carreira da artista, sendo o seu primeiro álbum inteiramente cantado em português. Após o lançamento de Human (2018), Isaura explora em Invisível temas de amor, esperança e superação pessoal, com uma sonoridade que funde a pop eletrónica com influências dos anos 80 e hip hop.

Detalhes do Álbum

Duração: Aproximadamente 36 minutos.

Faixas: O disco é composto por 12 músicas.

Produção: Conta com a colaboração de produtores como Filipe Survival e Jonny Abbey.

Significado: Segundo a artista, o título refere-se a sentimentos que, embora não se vejam, definem o que somos. O álbum foi escrito num período de recuperação pessoal após ter enfrentado um cancro, refletindo uma perspetiva otimista e "leve" sobre a vida.

Alinhamento de Faixas (Tracklist)

As principais canções do álbum incluem:

Olhos em ti

Viagem

Fica mais perto

A noite não conta

PHTGDM?

Só quero que te sintas bem

Tudo o que eu quis

Delicado

Uma frase

Leve

Isso (brevemente)

Glória 

Podes ouvir o álbum completo em plataformas como o Spotify ou a Apple Music.

Beautify Junkyards - Verde Pino [2023]

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releases September 9, 2023

electronic tropicalismo cosmic folk experimental electronic kosmische Lisbon

Federico Mompou - Música Callada [2023]

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A obra para piano de Federico Mompou, Musica Callada, é um conjunto de vinte e oito peças curtas escritas entre 1959 e 1967. Foi a última peça para piano publicada em vida do compositor.

O compositor era conhecido por ser um homem quieto e tímido, e esta música é um reflexo da sua personalidade.

Apesar da sua brevidade (a maioria das peças tem cerca de 3 minutos, a mais curta, apenas fugazes 45 segundos), cada peça é uma ideia musical completa e plenamente realizada, com carácter e atmosfera únicos, com foco nas subtis nuances de tonalidade e cor. O uso da harmonia por Mompou também é notável em Música callada. A música é frequentemente tonalmente ambígua, com foco em progressões de acordes não convencionais e relações harmónicas incomuns. Isso cria uma sensação de ambiguidade e abertura, como se a música estivesse a explorar um terreno emocional e espiritual difícil de compreender completamente.

Desde a infância, Stephen Hough tem uma forte afinidade com a música de Federico Mompou. No seu livro de memórias, Enough, ele descreve um LP com músicas de Mompou que possuía quando criança, tocando-o repetidamente, e o seu apreço por essa música é muito evidente nesta gravação. Não só o som é cristalino, reflexivo e cheio de nuances, como Hough captura com maestria a natureza fugaz e melancólica dessas peças alusivas, porém profundas, tornando cada uma delas uma meditação em miniatura. As frases são esculpidas com sensibilidade, a dinâmica, as texturas e os estados de espírito são subtil e impecavelmente julgados. Ele permite que a simplicidade mística dessa música fale, silenciosa, porém vigorosamente, encontrando um equilíbrio perfeito entre calor, ternura e indiferença, conforme a música pede. Os sons vêm e vão, fugazes e frágeis (a citação no topo do seu artigo é um comentário do próprio Stephen Hough sobre essa música). A experiência geral de audição é hipnotizante, cativante e gratificante.

Label: Hyperion – CDA68362

Format: CD, Album, Stereo

Country: UK

Released: Feb 2023

Genre: Classical

Style: Contemporary

Azar Azar - Cosmic Drops [2023]

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A surrealistic space travel, around sounds, and colours… A melancholic journey through different music places, where you can just seat back and chill, watching the autumn leaves falling from the trees… where you can dance like nobody's watching, to a drum’n’bass beat and imagine that you are at a Bristol dark club in the late 90’s, or at an afrobeat party in Lagos… or just drinking a caipirinha with Carmen Miranda… all this in less than 45 minutes, it’s cheaper than flying with a low cost airline company, and better for the environment...

I met Sérgio Alves when he was playing with the Groovelvets. I

immediately felt I was dealing with a special musician. It wasn’t

easy to find a keyboard player that could embody the diferent

expressions of African- American music, and its characteristic

groove in Portugal among the musicians of my generation.

Even though I had been A&R for over twenty years, I just came

across with the special João Gomes, and little else. Sharing the

love for the African- American sounds, straightened our

relationship, and I had the privilege of having all the keyboards

on my mini-LP Bonfim, played by Sérgio. I was also able to see the

development of the initial demos, the raw material that was in the

origin of Azar Azar, the musical adventure in which, for the first

time, he fully exposes his artistic personality.

He debuted the project with an E.P., on the brand new and

admirable Jazzego, in 2020.

Although only two of the five songs, that make up the EP, are

original work (the remaining three are remixes by K15, Minus +

MRDolly and Esa), the record was a beautiful calling card, but it

hadn't prepared me for the piece of work that was

about to come to my hands.

Like other musicians of his generation, Sérgio Alves grew up in the

midst of the development of Hip Hop, House, Techno, Broken Beat

and many other expressions of the most modern dance music. He

even has 20 years of a consistent career as a Dj. And that seems

to have contributed to the way he consolidates his musical

personality, allowing him to control an immensity of musical

impulses.

It is true that his compositions are settled in Jazz Funk, but,

throughout the eight tracks of his debut LP, we can feel the

inspiration of huge figures such as Roy Ayers, George Duke or

Donald Byrd that are intersected by the presence of a

kaleidoscopic variety of genres that have filled dance floors, from

Detroit to New York or London, in such a way that allows the

creation of piece of music that can be seen as autonomous,

intense, stimulating, personalized and relevant in any place of the

planet.

In this year of 2023.

Pedro Tenreiro

17th Jan 2023 

released 10 de março de 2023

A1. Space Gazing

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass - Bruno Macedo;

Drums - Ricardo Danin;

Flute - João Samuel;

Percussion - Manu Idhra;

Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;

Trumpet - Gileno Santana.

A2. Miles Backyard

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass - Pedro Ferreira;

Drums - Ricardo Danin;

Flute - João Samuel;

Percussion - Manu Idhra;

Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;

Trumpet - Gileno Santana.

A3. Dreaming Waves

Music - Azar Azar;

Lyrics - Beth Hirsch;

Bass - Bruno Macedo;

Drums - Ricardo Danin;

Flute - João Samuel;

Percussion - Manu Idhra;

Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;

Trombone - João Sêco;

Trumpet - João Sousa;

Vocals - Beth Hirsch.

A4. Instant Star

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass & Keys - Sérgio Alves.

B5. Golden Wonderland

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass - Bruno Macedo;

Drums - Ricardo Danin;

Percussion - Manu Idhra;

Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;

Trumpet - Gileno Santana;

Vibraphone - Eduardo Cardinho.

B6. Subway

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass, Drums, Keys & Samples - Sérgio Alves;

Saxophone Tenor - João Samuel.

B7. Moving in Outer Space

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass - Bruno Macedo;

Drums - Ricardo Danin;

Percussion - Manu Idhra;

Saxophone Tenor & Baritone - João Samuel

Keys & Sampling - Sérgio Alves;

Trombone - João Sêco

Trumpet - João Sousa

B8. Sunlight

Music - Azar Azar;

Bass - Bruno Macedo;

Drums - Ricardo Danin;

Percussion - Manu Idhra;

Saxophone Tenor - João Samuel.

Keys, Sampling & Vocals- Sérgio Alves;

Mixing - Sérgio Alves

Dreaming Waves Mixed by New Max

Mastering - Reel Mastering Studio

Design - Ricardo Leite

hip hop jazz jazz fusion dance music jazz lo.fi world fusion Porto

Napa - Logo Se Vê [2023]

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Luta Livre - Defesa Pessoal (FLAC) [2023]

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lançado em 31 de março de 2023

letras e músicas - Luis Varatojo

gravado em Lisboa em 2022

produção - Luis Varatojo

misturas- João Martins

master - Rui Dias

Convidados:

Gospel Collective - coro.

Ivo Palitos -voz.

Manuel Wiborg - voz

Pedro Mourato - guitarra acústica

Diogo Santos -Piano

João Gentil - acordeão.

Quiné Teles - percussão.

Iuri Oliveira - percussão.

alternative rock world jazzy political protest music Lisbon

Flotsam & Jetsam - Music for Piano and Assorted Accoutrements [2023]

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Destaque especial para a faixa nº 11 Titanium de João Pedro Oliveira

Titanium

João Pedro Oliveira

Year of composition: 2014

Duration: 12:00

Instrumentation: four-hand piano (two toy pianos) and 6-channel fixed medium

Genevieve Artadi - Forever Forever [2023]

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"Forever Forever” is the new album by Genevieve Artadi, the LA-based singer-songwriter, producer, archer and Dr. Mario enthusiast (“I keep my Switch in my back pocket most days”). A creative tornado, Genevieve is known for being the force in KNOWER, Expensive Magnets and her former band Pollyn, signing to Brainfeeder to release a sparkling solo album “Dizzy Strange Summer” in 2020. The following year she also collaborated with Thundercat, Raedio and Louis Cole on ‘Satellite Space Age Edition’ for the Insecure Season 5 soundtrack (HBO). “Forever Forever” encompasses a truly kaleidoscopic range of influences, making it impossible to pin down stylistically. Rooted in jazz, but winding up at alternative rock or avant pop, it’s in the lineage of legendary boundary-testers Stereolab and Talking Heads.

Genevieve hails from the scarily talented crew that includes Louis Cole, Pedro Martins, Sam Gendel, Sam Wilkes, Jacob Mann and Chiquita Magic, bearing a similar foundation of classical and jazz traditions offset with a healthy punk attitude and passion for musical hybridity and fusion. She admits that being surrounded by these talented individuals is motivation to create in and of itself.

Drawing on the spiritual teachings of Thích Nhất Hạnh – the Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk known as the “father of mindfulness”; Ram Dass (guru of modern yoga); Eckhart Tolle and Jiddu Krishnamurti, Genevieve reflects on her relationships, growing up and her adventures in life on this new album. “‘Forever Forever’ is an album about the love I have for the people in my life, attempting to express with a lot of care different sides of it: reassurance, acceptance of change, ruptures, joy.”

Genevieve also emphasizes the importance of anime in her life: “It has inspired me to adopt a bold, full-hearted attitude to my music but also my life more generally,” she acknowledges, referencing a few favourites: Naruto (“It’s changed my life”), Attack on Titan, Rurouni Kenshin, Hikaru No Go, and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures.

Half of the songs for “Forever Forever” were originally written for big band, with Genevieve having struck up a relationship with the Grammy-nominated Norrbotten Big Band from Sweden with whom she has been a composer in residence and performed live many times. Consequently, she says that she listened to Duke Ellington and Gil Evans with Miles Davis in pursuit of a creative spark. “The rest I think is just everything from my past that is in my subconscious,” she says. “Random flashes of inspiration from Chopin, Bach (I was learning some 2-part inventions during the lockdown), Debussy, Nancy Wilson, Björk, Ryan Power, Nobukazu Takemura, The Beatles, Dionne Warwick…”

With an accompanying tongue-in-cheek video that goes hard in an 80s hair metal style, the first single ‘Visionary’ climaxes with suitably epic solos from Pedro Martins (guitar), Chiquita Magic (synth bass), Christopher Fishman (piano) with Louis Cole and Daniel Sunshine doubling up on the drums. “It’s a celebration of love, expressing gratitude to ‘the other’ who was first to be brave enough to jump into a relationship when I had lost hope,” says Genevieve.

Genevieve’s relationship with the Brazilian guitarist and Thundercat collaborator Pedro Martins is also evident in the music, with Genevieve drawing inspiration from Brazilian legends of the ‘60s-’70s such as Beto Guedes, Toninho Horta and Elis Regina that Pedro brought into her orbit.

Recorded on location in Mexico at El Desierto Studio on a recommendation from Thundercat keyboard maestro Dennis Hamm, Genevieve travelled with best pals Chiquita Magic (keyboards, vocals), Pedro Martins (guitars, vocals), Chris Fishman (keys), Louis Cole (drums, synth bass), Henry Halliwell (additional production) and Daniel Sunshine (engineer) to elevate her demos. “The band made the music come alive with their skills, making all the written stuff more musical, adding ambient layers, choosing sounds that were perfect for the songs,” says Genevieve. “They played beautiful solos too. I loved watching them get so into it because all of them have musical visions I respect.”

“My previous albums were made at home, so this was a big jump”, she explains. “But I felt like it was the right move for these songs and, thankfully, it ended up better than I imagined. El Desierto is a big, beautiful wooden house in a forest designed for music, with everything we could possibly need. There was a camp vibe because we all slept there, had meals together, played on the crazy instruments everywhere, jammed and practiced day and night, and partied in the kitchen after sessions.”

“Forever Forever” will be released on Friday 17th March via Brainfeeder Records. The limited edition LP features photography by B+. 

released March 17, 2023

pop lo-fi pop Los Angeles

Nuno Campos 4tet - Something to Believe In [2023]

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The idea of this Recording was born with 4tet travelling to Cairo. The good times spent there along with the intriguing Egypt's culture left no doubt about the excuse to write new compositions.

This idea together with the last years of Nuno Campos research in contemporary composition and composer such as Schoenberg, Bartok, Ravel, Debussy, Ligeti, Messiaen and many others led to this new album.

The songs have many stories from the Egyptian mythology to be unraveled by the listener.

Enjoy the musical Journey in this wonderful world.

lançado em 15 de março de 2023

Nuno Campos - Composer, Double Bass, Text

Miguel Meirinhos - Piano

José pedro Coelho - Tenor Saxophone

Ricardo Coelho - Drums

João Pamplona - Vocals on track 1

Recorded 27,28 of December 2022 at Estúdio Cara by Nuno Couto.

Mixed and Mastered by Ferran Conangla

classical jazz composition composition originale contemporary jazz double bass improvisation melodic world music Porto