Results for "Marcelo Dos Reis"

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 ...

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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 ...

Luminária

By Marcelo Dos Reis

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

Points

By Marcelo Dos Reis

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

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 ...