Results for "Marcelo Dos Reis"

Marcelo Dos Reis

Light Machina

Label: Multikulti Project
Released: 2022
Track listing: Machina Girls; Saving Pigs; The RainGoat.

João Valinho / Luís Vicente / Salvoandrea Lucifora / Marcelo dos Reis: Light Machina

by John Sharpe
May 2, 2022

For discerning listeners, the presence on an album of the Portuguese double act of trumpeter Luís Vicente and guitarist Marcelo dos Reis is a near guarantee of excellence. They've appeared on a whole series of top drawer releases including Points (Multikulti Project, 2019), Chamber 4 (FMR, 2015) and For Sale (Clean Feed, 2015). To that roster ...

Chamber 4: Dawn To Dusk

by John Sharpe
February 5, 2022

The third album from the French-Portuguese collective Chamber 4 might be the aural equivalent of comfort food. A nourishing feast of spontaneous communal navigation which slips down easily, but leaves you wanting more. Not that there's any attempt to replicate past glories from their eponymous debut (FMR, 2015) or City Of Light (Clean Feed, 2017).

Dawn To Dusk

Label: JACC Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Dawn; To; Dusk.

The Fall

Label: JACC Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Ground Floor; Rise Up; Falling Stars; Skyfall; Down Under.

Pliable

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Supple; Malleable; The Whippy; Elastic; Ductile; Pliant.

Fail Better!: The Fall

by John Sharpe
November 14, 2021

For its third album following Zero Sum (JACC, 2014) and Owt (NoBusiness, 2016), adventurous Portuguese improvising outfit Fail Better! presents selections from a 2017 concert in the city of Coimbra. Although the instrumentation remains the same, this time out drummer Marco Franco and Lisbon-based Catalan saxophonist Albert Cirera join core members trumpeter Luis Vicente, guitarist Marcelo ...

In Layers: Pliable

by John Sharpe
March 26, 2021

Working on-the-fly, improv outfit In Layers collectively orders timbral maneuvers into captivating momentum on Pliable, its second outing following the eponymous debut (FMR, 2016). The cast remains unchanged, the Portuguese pair of guitarist Marcelo Dos Reis and trumpeter Luis Vicente, being supplemented by Dutch drummer Onno Govaert and Amsterdam-based Icelandic pianist Kristjan Martinsson. Dos ...

Marcelo Dos Reis: Points

by John Sharpe
December 31, 2019

Points unites four partners in crime, who may be familiar from excellent albums such as Chamber 4 (FMR, 2015) and For Sale (Clean Feed, 2015). But though there are many interconnections between the Portuguese threesome of guitarist Marcelo dos Reis, drummer Marco Franco and trumpeter Luis Vicente, and French cellist Valentin Ceccaldi, this is their first ...