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Conundrum Vol. 1 - Itself Through Disappearance

Pedro Melo Alves

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2024
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Tracks

Pedro Melo Alves, João Barradas - January 14th, 2022; Pedro Melo Alves, Audrey Chen - November 11th, 2022; Pedro Melo Alves, Ignaz Schick - September 29th, 2022; Pedro Melo Alves, Nuno Rebelo - February 22nd, 2019; Pedro Melo Alves, Marta Warelis - December 20th, 2023; Pedro Melo Alves, Violeta Garcia - April 12th, 2023; Pedro Melo Alves, Jacqueline Kerrod - February 11th, 2019; Pedro Melo Alves, Carlos Barretto - May 13th, 2022; Pedro Melo Alves, Sara Serpa - July 9th, 2022; Pedro Melo Alves, Rafael Toral - March 4th, 2022; Pedro Melo Alves, Grilo - February 12th, 2019; Pedro Melo Alves, Gil Dionísio - October 19th, 2023; Pedro Melo Alves, Ece Canlı - February 9th, 2023.

Personnel

Pedro Melo Alves

drums

Audrey Chen

cello

Ignaz Schick

turntable

Nuno Rebelo

guitar, electric

Marta Warelis

piano

Violeta García

cello

Jacqueline Kerrod

harp

Sam Gerstmans

bass, acoustic

Sara Serpa

vocals

Rafael Toral

electronics

João Grilo

piano

Gil Dionísio

vocals

Ece Canlı

vocals

Album Description

“Conundrum is one of my dreams of potentiality. And through it, a dream of community and ego dissolution. It's the audio recording of a series of concerts that I have been organizing since 2019, where I have the pleasure to challenge some of the most inspiring and intriguing beings on my way - with whom I’ve never played before - for a live duo improvised dialogue. No past history, only the infinite silence of mysteries to be shattered on stage. So I see it as a personal collection of precious minds which, at a certain point, inspired me with a vision of possibility - a gift of new things on the horizon for me to unblock, a shining feeling of reality in expansion. A promise - the glimpse of stepping out of my sphere. I don't want to know what's going to unfold on stage. Or who I am, for that matter. I want to feel the void of expectancy and the harsh flavour of self-reinvention. I want my certainties to lose their ground, and with it, hopefully new, unchained universes flourish. I want to conceive new drum setups, new electronic devices, new sonic resources, new dreams, new versions of myself. So the curation of guests ended up following a logic that defied the conventions of contemporary improvised music. What does it mean to be a drummer, what are the new circuits of... improvisation, what are these resources coming from jazz and underground experimentalism and how do they relate with past idioms, what's the role of electronics and live processing of sound in the modern musician speech, how to produce meaning through spontaneous sound dialogues, how to explore and combine all the multiple selves we have in us, ultimately leaving us in this zero state ("itself through disappearance")? Since 2022 Conundrum was a resident series at the club Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon, happening every 2 months, recorded in audio and video. Thank you from my core - João, Audrey, Ignaz, Nuno, Marta, Violeta, Jacqueline, Carlos, Sara, Rafael, Grilo, Gil, Ece and Odete - for your ongoing gift of possibility" Pedro Melo Alves 22/05/2024