Flak

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Founding member, in the Eighties, of the Portuguese pop-rock band Rádio Macau, the legendary guitarist known as Flak has a side path in more exploratory and experimental circuits, with projects like A Máquina do Almoço Dá Pancadas (something like The Lunch Machine Kicks), introducing is interest to jazz, and Micro Audio Waves, this one taking him to the domaines of electronic music.

For this album, the fourth under his own name, marking 60 years of life and 40 of musical activity, he invited musicians of the fields of avant-jazz, free improvised music and beat music coming out from funk, namely Rodrigo Amado, José Lencastre, Luís Lopes, Guilherme Rodrigues, Francisco Rebelo and Rui Alves, taking another step forward on is brilliant career.

This is the result, uniting the worlds of jazz and electronic music in inventive and intriguing ways.

PERSONNEL:

• FLAK - (guitar, keyboard, programming)
• Rui Alves - (electronic drums)
• Francisco Rebelo - (bass, baritone guitar)
• Guilherme Rodrigues - (cello)
• Luis Lopes - (guitar)
• Rodrigo Amado - (tenor saxophone)
• José Lencastre - (alto saxophone)

Recorded live in Lisbon by Artur David, 18th October 2021

TRACKS:

• 01. Magpie
• 02. Movement Two
• 03. Warming Up With The Moon
• 04. Fog In Paradise
• 05. Below Ground Zero