Cat in A Bag

• DIGIPACK EDITION

You already know three members of this Portuguese band – alto saxophonist Bruno Figueira, guitarist João Clemente and drummer Duarte Fonseca – from Slow is Possible. The other is bassist João Lucas, also born in Portugal but living and working in Holland. His deep and acid bass sound is the axis of everything happening in “Cat in a Bag”. Sometimes it reminds you of the sublow harmonics of Bill Laswell, but in a context not very far from John Zorn’s compositions for rock-oriented power trios. Here and there the mindset of the music take it to the experimental and contemporary classical music fields, in a kind of Kasper Toeplitz garage version.

PERSONNEL:

• BRUNO FIGUEIRA, saxofone and effects
• DUARTE FONSECA, drums
• JOAO CLEMENTE, guitar and magnets
• JOAO LUCAS, bass and effects

Recorded in KellerTone Studio by Peter Kolpakov, 12 & 13 June 2019 – Berlin

TRACKS:

• 01. Smiling As A Rite Of Exorcism
• 02. Evil To Him Who Evil Thinks
• 03. Language Drifts Into Meaning
• 04. Astrolabe [II]
• 05. Obscure Objects
• 06. Beauty Melted in Secret [III]
• 07. The Decay Of Manners
• 08. Blind Art Collector
• 09. Ode For The Duration Of Humanity