A suite in seven parts named in Latin with abstract spiritual connotations from the Portuguese free improvising trio of Paulo Galao on clarinet & bass clarinet, Guilherme Rodrigues on cello, and Nuno Morao on percussion, each movement using subdued yet detailed and active motion, a confident and adept meditation of powerfully controlled communion.
In Stock
Quantity in Basket: None
Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units
EU & UK Customers:
Discogs.com can handle your VAT payments
So please order through Discogs
Sample The Album:
Paulo Galao-clarinet, bass clarinet
Guilherme Rodrigues-cello
Nuno Morao-percussion
Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.
UPC: 5609063405620
Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs562
Squidco Product Code: 26709
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Scratch Built Studio, in Lisbon, Portugal, on January 5th, 2016, by John Klima.
"The titles of the themes are in Latin, the last being referenced in S. John, and inside the cover the motto of what is on the CD is given poetically: "So that your servants may, / with loosened voices, / Resound the wonders "It is not clear who St. John is. Is it the Baptist, who the canons claim to have baptized Jesus and written the Book of Revelation? Is he the Evangelist? The Ethiopian martyr? It will not be important to understand the music - what is most relevant is the fact that it runs as a suite, the seven parts (a number that the occult connotes with the Absolute) conjugating in a praise to God. Christian in appearance, though from the compositional rules of Christian church music what we hear only retains one, the liturgical factor.
Improvised music by its very nature is profane, but in "Hymn" every single sound and every combination of the instruments used (soprano and bass clarinets, cello, percussion) seem measured, intentional, definitive, as if to try to counteract the ephemerality of improvisation, that which in itself was fixed by the registry of what Paulo Galão, Guilherme Rodrigues and Nuno Morão played on January 5, 2016 in the studio Scratch Built. It is also a personal and joint meditation, in a going-beyond-which is as spiritual as organic, especially when the functional viscerality of the human body is mimicked (listen to the clarinet in "Solve Polluti", for example). The three musicians find in their own humanity the motives for this devotional act, and in this they contradict some of the essential postulates of Christianity, although they do not move far from it. Another reason more ground makes listening to what is here essential: if Galão has been changing frequently the clarinets for the saxophone tenor for two years, in this disc we find it still with these murmurs, recorded at the time when - for our happiness - returned to full musical activity, after a few years of (almost) absence."-Rui Eduardo Paes, Jazz.PT (translated by Google)
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Paulo Galao Paulo Galão is a Lisbon, Portugal based saxophonist known for the groups, Variable Geometry Orchestra, Vitor Rua & The Metaphysical Angels. ^ Hide Bio for Paulo Galao • Show Bio for Guilherme Rodrigues "Was born 1988 in Lisboa, Portugal and started playing cello and trumpet at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa at the age of 7. In 1999 joined Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory and in the current year recorded his first album - Multiples - with Ernesto Rodrigues and José Oliveira out on Creative Sources Recordings. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, also works with live music poetry, theatre and film-music. After lengthy residency in Lisboa, (1988-2016) moved to Berlin and has been active as composer and improviser in the scene. Worked with some international and renewed artists like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Margarida Garcia, Manuel Mota, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Sei Miguel, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Oren Marshall, Gerhard Uebele, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Nicolas Field, Jaime Fennelly, Blaise Siwula, Will Guthrie, Pawel Grabowski, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Diego Chamy, Gabriel Paiuk, Barry Weisblat, Joe Giardullo, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Taku Unami, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Romaric Sobac, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Leiria Pereira, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Dennis Gonzaléz, Alípio Carvalho Neto, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, João Madeira, Álvaro Rosso, Gil Gonçalves, Marian Yanchyk, Filipe Passos, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Bechir Saade, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim ... Has performed and toured in all Europe. Released more than 30 albums of his own projects." ^ Hide Bio for Guilherme Rodrigues • Show Bio for Nuno Morao "Nuno Morão: Musician | Sound engineer, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal • Scratch Built Studio | CABO Studio; • The Selva; • Hamar Trio; • Joana Barra Vaz; • Ar.Co - Center for Art & Visual Communication; • ECOSAcademic education; • University of Évora He was born in Lisbon in 1976. In 1983, he began his musical studies at the School of Music of Loures. He was later student at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon, Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, University of Aveiro, School of Music of Lisbon and University of Évora (where he is about to graduate in Jazz). He studied composition, organ of tubes, piano, drums, varied percussion and a panoply of plastic instruments. In the company of several musicians and projects, he practices improvisation and exploratory music (PARK, PINKDRAFT, IKB Ensemble, VGO, Hamar Trio, The Selva). He works as a musician, composer and sound engineer (in theater, dance, performance, installation, cinema, web, audiobooks and new media), as well as operator, director, editor and sound mixer. In addition to the musical projects mentioned above, he is also an active member of Ensemble JER, Common Name, Nuno Sanches and co-editor of BOCA (audiobooks). He enjoys walking, collecting varied documentation and photographing the national railway. 40 years old. Born in Lisbon, where he lives and works as a musician, composer and sound designer (theater, performance, installation, cinema, web and new media), as well as a sound recordist, mixer, editor and director." ^ Hide Bio for Nuno Morao
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
11/20/2024
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
11/20/2024
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
Track Listing:
1. Ut Queant Laxis 4:03
2. Resonare Fibris 11:40
3. Mira Gestorum 4:38
4. Famuli Tuorum 5:25
5. Solve Polluti 6:35
6. Labii Reatum 8:30
7. Sancte Iohannes 1:45
Creative Sources
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
European Improvisation and Experimental Forms
Trio Recordings
lowercase, reductionist, micro-improv, sound improv, onkyo sound
Search for other titles on the label:
Creative Sources.