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Instrument: Guitar, electric
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Abdul Moimême

Born:
Abdul Moimême is a Lisbon based musician and active member
of the cities free improvisation scene. His main instrument
is the electric guitar.
Moimême has also worked as a jazz writer, since 1999, writing
in various Portuguese publications such as Flirt, All Jazz
and Jazz.pt magazines, as well as the Público newspaper.
Moimême has performed in several projects such as: Hipnótica,
IKB, Insub Meta Orchestra, Potlatch, Queixas, Suspensão, and
Variable Geometry Orchestra and performed and/or recorded
with musicians such as: Axel Dörner, Carlos Zingaro, Christian Weber, Christophe
Berthet, Cyril Bondi, D’Incise, Ernesto Rodrigues, Floros
Floridis, Gale Brand, George Haslam, Heddy Boubaker, Jon
Raskin, Manuel Mota, Marco von Orelli, Marco Scarassatti,
Patrick Brennan, Rodrigo Amado, Thanos Chrysakis and Wade
Matthews.
He has performed in Austria, Brazil, France, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
Patrick Brennan Sonic Openings: Tilting Curvaceous

by Karl Ackermann
The quintet project Tilting Curvaceous is saxophonist/composer Patrick Brennan's sixth leader/co-leader date since the late 1990s. His duo recording Terraphonia (Creative Sources Recordings, 2019) with guitarist Abdul Moimême demonstrated a strong affinity for free improvisation within unconventional settings and uncommon concepts. Brennan is joined by trumpeter and flugelhorn player Brian Groder. The native New Yorker has ...
Wade Matthews / Abdul Moimême: Permeance

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 ...
Lionel Marchetti & Abdul Moimême: Ciel-Cristal

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 ...
A Different Drummer, Pt. 6: Iberian Beats – Jorge Rossy & Pedro Melo Alves

by Karl Ackermann
The music of the Iberian Peninsula is as rich and diverse as any in the world. Its influences are many yet it developed in the pre-global bubble of geography. Early music of the peninsula was impacted by much of the known world in the primeval period and the Middle Ages. The peninsula was isolated by the ...
Transition Zone

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Whirr; Hushed; Tumultuous; Ring; Blister.
Karl Ackermann's Best Creative Music of 2021

by Karl Ackermann
2020 was a disaster and 2021 was less than a beacon of hope. COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror but closer than it appears. The political clown cars are over capacity, still running on fossil fuel and spilling occupants into the drinking water. That said, jazz and creative music flourished in ways that could make us ...
Fred Lonberg-Holm, Abdul Moimême & Carlos Santos: Transition Zone

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 ...