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

Read "Light Machina" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 can be added Light Machina, where they join countryman drummer João Valinho and Sicilian trombonist Salvoandrea Lucifora, in a freely improvised concert from Coimbra ...

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Chamber 4: Dawn To Dusk

Read "Dawn To Dusk" reviewed by John Sharpe


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). Instead the unchanged cast of trumpeter Luis Vicente, guitarist Marcelo dos Reis and the brothers violinist Theo Ceccaldi and cellist Valentin Ceccaldi once ...

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Fail Better!: The Fall

Read "The Fall" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 dos Reis and bassist Jose Miguel Pereira. Of the newbies, Franco is the more regular collaborator with Vicente, as can be heard on the ...

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In Layers: Pliable

Read "Pliable" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 Reis and Vicente's liking for unhurried group congress has surfaced in multiple guises, prominent among them being Points (Multikulti Project, 2019), Chamber 4 (FMR, ...

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Marcelo Dos Reis: Points

Read "Points" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 time on record in this particular combination. As on the above mentioned releases, they specialize in an all out improv which nonetheless touches on ...

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Frame Trio: Luminária

Read "Luminária" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 Vicente, guitarist Marcelo dos Reis and bassist Nils Vermeulen. Both bastions of the Portuguese creative music scene, Vicente and dos Reis share a common ...

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Marcelo Dos Reis / Angelica V. Salvi: Concentric Rinds

Read "Concentric Rinds" reviewed by John Sharpe


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 is the string trio Open Field, with whom he first encountered Spanish harpist Angelica V. Salvi. In fact it was Parker who suggested that ...

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Light Machina

Multikulti Project
2022

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Pliable

FMR Records
2021

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The Fall

JACC Records
2021

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Dawn To Dusk

JACC Records
2021

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Luminária

FMR Records
2019

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Points

Multikulti Project
2019

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