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Stereogram marks the debut of pLoo, an eclectic album with a unique sound. A pinch of Jazz to season a contemporary amalgam of improvisation on a world music rhythm. Wanted different ways to create a pulse in music, make up and travel different paths, a holding of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, timbre and texture.
Paulo Costa - Composition, Drums and Percussion António Augusto Aguiar - Bass Eurico Costa - Guitar Daniel Dias - Trombone João Mortágua - Saxophone
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Ethnographies of Jazz
Those from the Norte: pLoo at Café Casa da Música
by Arian Bagheri Pour Fallah
Jazz and its many conformations rarely denote the multiplicity of sub-genres as such. Paulo Alexandre Pereira da Costa's pLoo attests this sharply enough to warrant its listeners a view entire and aggregate, and in the same extent, select and irregular, of jazz and its current praxis in Northern Portugal. The quintet, made up of wind and string players led by Costa on drums, is capable of derailing tableaus so obscurely, as in “Bêbado das onze" and “Pong," that tracing them ...
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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson
