Acabou de sair na editora portuguesa shhpuma o primeiro disco do meu duo com o camarada Jean-Marc
O design e concepção gráfica são do Travassos.
The staying in Paris, for some years, of the young violist João
Camões may have put him away from the Portuguese improv scene, but sure
is it enabled him to enter in the French one. This is his second edition
with one of the musicians with whom he started to work in the City of
Lights, Jean-Marc Foussat, now in duo after the trio with Claude Parle
heard in “Bien Mental”. What we find in this new “À la face du ciel” is
somewhat different from that other recording, and if it would be natural
to have more intimate and introspective results, considering the
one-to-one dialogue, we get the opposite: the music is even more
intense, visceral and dynamic. In electro-acoustic territory, that’s not
an established procedure. When there’s a computer involved, the
tendency is for (non-)developments in the form of drones and for
ethereal soundscapings.
There’s a particular circumstance: Foussat doesn’t use the concepts defining the present day electronica, but those of the acoustic improvised music and free jazz, established through multiple partnerships with Jac Berrocal, Daunik Lazro, Sophie Agnel, Jerôme Bourdellon and Makoto Sato, among others. Unquiet, acting by impulse and always with new ideas, in the two long pieces of the CD he covers several kinds of approaches, the two main ones being the live processing of the signals coming from his partner and the elaboration of synthesis. Confronted with this constant challenge, Camões tries do go beyond his own limits and to get out from comfort zones, doing it superbly and not fearing the fact that he’s playing with a veteran. The language used by this member of the Portuguese bands Open Field Trio and Earnear contain, mostly, elements from contemporary classical music, this way introducing a rather curious logic of contrasts. It’s a joy to listen.
There’s a particular circumstance: Foussat doesn’t use the concepts defining the present day electronica, but those of the acoustic improvised music and free jazz, established through multiple partnerships with Jac Berrocal, Daunik Lazro, Sophie Agnel, Jerôme Bourdellon and Makoto Sato, among others. Unquiet, acting by impulse and always with new ideas, in the two long pieces of the CD he covers several kinds of approaches, the two main ones being the live processing of the signals coming from his partner and the elaboration of synthesis. Confronted with this constant challenge, Camões tries do go beyond his own limits and to get out from comfort zones, doing it superbly and not fearing the fact that he’s playing with a veteran. The language used by this member of the Portuguese bands Open Field Trio and Earnear contain, mostly, elements from contemporary classical music, this way introducing a rather curious logic of contrasts. It’s a joy to listen.
