Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Manuel Mota / Gino Robair / Ernesto Rodrigues

Ernesto Diaz-Infante / Manuel Mota / Gino Robair / Ernesto Rodrigues: Our Faceless Empire

by Mark Corroto
May 26, 2010

The meeting of four skilled improvising musicians--two from Lisbon, Portugal, and two from San Francisco--is cause for celebration on these nine ephemeral pieces. Surprisingly, Our Faceless Empire is not a live date; instead, it was made in an Oakland, California studio in 2006. By the very nature of this session, an audience--or any outside noise or distraction--might take away from the overall aura of its sounds.

The meeting emphasizes both the acoustic and the electric. Portuguese players Ernesto ...