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Wade Matthews / Abdul Moimême: Permeance

Read "Permeance" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Two masters of experimental music, Wade Matthews, the French-born, Madrid-based, electro-acoustic improviser, and Abdul Moimême, the Portuguese experimental guitarist & composer, have been frequent collaborators for a decade. The duo recorded one previous album, Lisbon -10 Sound Portraits (Creative Sources, 2017) in the pre-pandemic era. Permeance sees the pair reunited in a live recording from Lisbon's Bota Club in late 2022. The music is largely improvised, derived from only the barest of pre-conceived ideas. Permeance consists of three ...

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Lionel Marchetti & Abdul Moimême: Ciel-Cristal

Read "Ciel-Cristal" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Composer Lionel Marchetti works in electroacoustic music. A visual artist and book author, he has led or played on more than sixty albums, his recordings having been issued on labels based in Spain, Germany, Italy, and his native France. Marchetti is a strong proponent of experimental music and musique concrete, and finds a kindred spirit in Portuguese experimental guitarist Abdul Moimême. The pair records as a duo for the first time on Ciel-Cristal. Moimême plays two homemade (or ...

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Fred Lonberg-Holm, Abdul Moimême & Carlos Santos: Transition Zone

Read "Transition Zone" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Chicago-based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm has long been in the vanguard of free improvisation. But along with free jazz, he has recorded in the rock and country genres, and composed concert works. He is joined on Transition Zone by two leaders of Lisbon's creative music scene. Dual-electric guitarist/composer Abdul Moimême and electronics artist/composer Carlos Santos bring their extraordinary abilities to create ethereal soundscapes to this impressive project. Nothing sounds familiar in this amalgamation of cello, custom guitars, electronics, computer, ...

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Pedro Melo Alves: In Igma

Read "In Igma" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Jazz has had a presence in Portugal since the mid-1920s but had found itself in decline from the 1970s. The revolutionary jazz scene in Portugal, circa the 2010s, has produced a profusion of rising stars. Violist Ernesto Rodrigues, trumpeter Susana Santos Silva, Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos, and the Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble are among those who have emerged as influential beyond the Portuguese border. Two driving forces in that country's improvised music—drummer-percussionist Pedro Melo Alves and experimental guitarist Abdul Moimême—team ...

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Bruno Parrinha/Abdul Moimême/Carlos Santos: A Silent Play in the Shadow of Power

Read "A Silent Play in the Shadow of Power" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Just before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down much of the world in early March 2020, electronics artist/composer, Carlos Santos brought together reed player (José) Bruno Parrinha and dual-electric guitarist Abdul Moimême for A Silent Play in the Shadow of Power. The three Lisbon based artists often work within the same cohort of adventurous Portuguese musicians and are a perceptively attuned group. They recorded this album at the Small Formats Materials Festival in their home city. The compelling album ...

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Pedro Melo Alves: In Igma

Read "In Igma" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Since his remarkable debut as a leader in 2017, Omniae Ensemble (Nischo Records), drummer and composer Pedro Melo Alves has quickly established himself as a vital force in the Portuguese jazz scene. With an uncompromising sensibility equally committed to avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical music, not to mention the jazz-rock experimentalism of his work with Rite of Trio, Alves' hybridity is his calling card, and it's a crucial characteristic of the new breed of creative jazz coming out of Portugal. ...

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Patrick Brennan/Maria do Mar/Ernesto Rodrigues/Miguel Mira/Hernâni Faustino/Abdul Moimême: The Sudden Bird of Waiting

Read "The Sudden Bird of Waiting" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Portuguese violist Ernesto Rodriques has appeared as a leader/co-leader on almost two-hundred recordings. He has recorded with The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, the Luso-Scandinavian Avant Music Orchestra, and several other ensembles. Rodriques was in Lisbon in 2018 when Portuguese native Abdul Moimême and American saxophonist Patrick Brennan were recording their duo venture Terraphonia (Creative Sources Recordings, 2019). At Rodriques' suggestion, the artists launched a project that would pair their experimental skills with an improvising Lisbon string quartet. The resulting album, The ...


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