Results for "Marcelo Dos Reis"

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 ...

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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 ...

Points

By Marcelo Dos Reis

Label: Multikulti Project
Released: 2019
Track listing: Exclamation Mark; Question Mark; Punctuation; Endpoint.

Luminária

By Marcelo Dos Reis

Label: FMR Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Luminária 1; Luminária 2; Luminária 3; Luminária 4; Luminária 5; Luminária 6.

Frame Trio: Luminária

by John Sharpe
May 23, 2019

With freely improvised music, you have to trust that the performers will take you somewhere you want to go and that the journey itself will be as worthwhile as the destination, if not more so. Those expectations are more than met by the Frame Trio on Luminária, the first album by the collective of trumpeter Luís ...

Chamber 4: City Of Light

by John Sharpe
December 22, 2017

City of Light is the follow up to the excellent eponymous debut by Chamber 4 (FMR, 2015) and presents an unchanged line up. It's also a close relative of For Sale (Clean Feed, 2015), which features three of the same players. Given those connections it shouldn't be a surprise that this live recording from a concert ...

Concentric Rinds

By Marcelo Dos Reis

Label: Cipsela Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Gravity; Spirals; Convex; Depth; Concave; Spheres; Circles; Surface.

Fail Better!: OWT

by John Sharpe
September 18, 2016

Taking Samuel Beckett's exhortation from Worstward Ho as a moniker--and a highly appropriate credo for improvisers to aspire to--Portuguese co-operative ensemble Fail Better! proffer their second release, following Zero Sum (JACC, 2014), as a limited edition LP on the Lithuanian NoBusiness label. Of the five proponents, likely the most familiar will be trumpeter Luis Vicente and ...

Marcelo Dos Reis / Angelica V. Salvi: Concentric Rinds

by John Sharpe
January 9, 2016

Guitarist Marcelo dos Reis has become a fixture on the Lisbon experimental music scene, where he also helms the newly created Cipsela imprint. His guitar contributed an attractive wild card element to Chamber 4's eponymous release (FMR, 2015) and he has worked with Elliott Sharp, Burton Greene and Evan Parker among others. Among his many outlets ...