Luís Lopes Lisbon Berlin Trio

Luís Lopes Lisbon Berlin Trio: The Line

by Mark Corroto
December 6, 2014

Guitarist Luís Lopes posted the following quote on his Facebook page, “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." With that as his mission statement, the question arises: can one listen to his music with a sympathetic ear? Or more importantly, is discomfort the motivation and ultimately the goal? Lopes' approach, like that of Derek Bailey and Sonny Sharrock, is a sort of unbalancing take on the electric guitar. Like Bailey, he has written ...