Based in Lisbon but formed of Spanish, Portuguese, and Uruguayan players, Dissection Room performs abstract experimental improvisation using saxophone (Cirera), electric guitar and objects (Moimeme) and double bass (Rosso), presenting an extended live performance at O'Culto da Ajuda in Lisbon in 2017, mysterious and dark sound and music of impressive skill and intent.
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Albert Cirera-tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
Abdul Moimeme-electric guitar, objects
Alvaro Rosso-double bass
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UPC: 5609063405491
Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs549
Squidco Product Code: 26211
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded live at O'Culto da Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal, on December 8th, 2017.
"An international trio, based out of Lisbon, Portugal, Dissection Room formed in 2015 with saxophonist Albert Cirera, bassist Alvaro Rosso and guitarist and electronic artist Abdul Moiméme. The three artists share wide-ranging formal training in multiple disciplines as well as an affinity for experimental music. Their self-titled debut, recorded live at Lisbon's O'Culto Da Ajuda in late 2017, is both abstract and experimental and not at all for the faint of heart.
A native of the Catalan region of Northern Spain, Cirera studied classical music at Barcelona's Escola Municipal de Música d'Igualada where he made the transition from violin to reeds. Cirera was mentored by Tony Malaby, Ellery Eskelin, Bill McHenry, Perico Sambeat and Agusti Fernandez at various times in his extensive musical education. He is known regionally as a skilled player with the versatility to move between traditional jazz, pop and experimental music. Since 2011 Cirera has led his own quartet while working with a dozen other groups including Agusti Fernandez's Liquid Trio/Quintet and he has performed in festivals throughout Europe and Asia. Rosso made his way from his native Uruguay's capital of Montevideo through France and Spain and onto Portugal, absorbing musical knowledge at each stop. His master's degree concentrated on the double bass' range of expression, extended techniques and experimental music. Rosso has performed in classical ensembles, ballet, opera, theater and dance projects. He has worked with bassist Miguel Mira, cellist Fredrick Lonberg-Holm, Italian Jazz pianist and composer Nicola Guazzaloca, Cirera and Abdul Moimême. A Portuguese native, Moimême moved to the US and then Ireland in his youth. He studied guitar and tenor saxophone in the midst of pursuing an architectural degree in Boston and Lisbon. He has toured in South America and Europe. His solo album, Exosphere (Creative Sources Recordings, 2017) is an experimental work of art, recorded live in a 17th-century Portuguese church.
Dissection Room consists of a single track, "A Late Song for Saint Cecilia's Day," running just under fifty-four minutes. The piece does not so much fall into passages as it does behave like a series of chemical reactions. The music breaks down from one form into another at intervals, only occasionally revealing the natural voices of the instruments. More often it is extended techniques that fill the air, not necessarily as noise but as some primal manifestation of individual instruments in search of an alternate language through something beyond traditional harmonics and melody.
The group defies an analysis of their working dynamics; clearly there is communication between Cirera, Moimême and Rosso but whether that implies a desire to converge is a mystery. The group overlaps noise and technology with Moimême's prepared guitar blinking between ghostly effects and incisive clarity. Dissection Room is definitely for open ears and that audience will find it renews itself with repeated listening."-Karl Ackermann, All About Jazz
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• Show Bio for Albert Cirera "Saxophonist, renowned for his vigorous sound, melodic and abrupt phrasing, and great versatility in terms of musical styles, collaborates in numerous projects of the most diverse nature, from the most classic to the most contemporary and risky jazz, even in some of them closer to pop National or song author. He began his musical training at the age of six with the violin as his main instrument. A few years later, by the hand of Professor Alfons Carrascosa, will change this by the tenor sax. After years of classical training at the Music School of Igualada and many others in modern music schools in Barcelona, he continues his formative career at the Catalan School of Music where he receives classes from Eladio Reinon, Xavi Figarola, Dani Pérez, Agustí Fernández among others. He also moved to The Hague (Holland) to study for a year at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague with John Ruocco, graduating finally in 2007. During these years he also receives advice from Tony Malaby, Ellery Eskelin, Bill Mchenry, Perico Sambeat .. Since 2011 leads su propio quartet Albert Cirera & Tres Tambor forming part también en proyectos as Duot, Agusti Fernandez Liquid Trio / Quintet, Free Art Ensemble, Landspace, Javier Galiana & the Spice berberechos, Wooookam, Triot, IED'8, Nelson Projecte, Free Orchestra Association, Esther Condal, El Petit de Cal Eril, etc, receiving with some of them prizes such as the AMJM (Association of Jazz Musicians and Modern Music of Catalonia) in 2011 to the best jazz group with Duot and also, That same year, the Enderrock prize of the critic to the best disc of jazz by "Vol.2 Mode Joe" of Nelson Project. He has played and continues to do so with musicians like Joe Morris, David Mengual, Joe Smith, Agustí Fernandez, Johannes Nästesjö, Massa Kamaguchi, Carlos Zingaro, Ulrich Mitzlaf, Dani Perez, Jaume Llombart, RJ Miller, David Soler, Celeste Alias, Alessandra Patrucco, Marc Egea, Tom Chant, Pablo Rega, Vasco Trilla, Olle Vikstrom, Julian Sánchez, Sonia Sanchez, etc., in various clubs and other jazz venues in the Iberian peninsula, Belgium, Hungary, Italy and Portugal as well as in festivals Jazz of Barcelona, Vic, Tarrasa, Egido, Girona, Granollers, Banyoles, Lleida, Ibiza, Ezcaray, Sant Juan Evangelista, Hurta BCN color, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Skodra, Hungary), Noth Sea Jazz (Holland), Rocella Jonica (Italy) and Minde (Portugal). He currently resides in Lisbon where he integrates into the eclectic music scene by playing and building new projects with musicians such as Hernani Faustino, Miguel Mira, Luis Vicente, Vasco Furtado, Fededico Pascucci, Marcelo Dos Reis, Marco Franco, Big Band Reunion, Francisco Andrade, Joao Lencastre or Gabriel Ferrandini." ^ Hide Bio for Albert Cirera • Show Bio for Abdul Moimeme "Abdul Moimême was born in Lisbon, in 1959, moving at an early age to New Mexico and later to Dublin, Ireland. He began studying the guitar at the age of 11, studying under various private teachers, in Madrid, Spain. In 1979 he moved to Boston to study architecture, finally completing his degree at the University of Lisbon. In the 90's he began studying the tenor saxophone with Patrick Brennan. In this period he became actively involved with Lisbon's improvised and alternative rock scenes, performing frequently with the Variable Geometry Orchestra since it's creation in 2003, as well as with various other local projects. His main musical partners are from Lisbon and Porto, but he has also performed in public concerts with such artists as Gale Brand, George Haslam, Jon Raskin, Ken Filiano, Patrick Brennan, Steve Adams, and Wade Matthews. In 1999 he started writing about jazz in various Portuguese publications and is currently a permanent collaborator of Jazz.pt magazine, and Publico newspaper, as a critic. In 2006 he created Freemusic (http://freemusic.podomatic.com), a space exclusively dedicated to the promotion of Portuguese improvised music." ^ Hide Bio for Abdul Moimeme • Show Bio for Alvaro Rosso Alvaro Rosso is a Portuguese double bassist, a member of Variable Geometry Orchestra, ZMVR 4tet, Orgonite, Croniques 3, and String Theory. ^ Hide Bio for Alvaro Rosso
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Track Listing:
1. Dissection Room 53:35
Creative Sources
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Jazz
European Improvisation and Experimental Forms
Trio Recordings
Objects and Home-made Instruments
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