Pedro Melo Alves

Omniae Large Ensemble - Lumina (CF 581 CD)

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Omniae Large Ensemble - Lumina

Pedro Melo Alves

Clean Feed

5609063005813

FEE 166095

CF 581 CD

JAZZ

1

CD 9,98 €

DIGIPACK EDITION

“We sure are alive”, writes Pedro Melo Alves in the liner notes of Lumina. It’s true, the music inside is a survival chant: we made it, after two years of a science fiction-like nightmare. And suddenly, there’s some light.

The Portuguese composer and drummer was the winner in 2016 of the Bernardo Sassetti Award with the first version of his Omniae Ensemble concept. At the invitation of the Guimarães Jazz Festival in 2020, during a brief interval between lockdowns, he transformed the original septet to a 23-elements large ensemble, adding electronics, tuba, clarinet, flutes, bassoon, cello, classical guitar, three singers and a maestro (Pedro Carneiro, also known as a percussionist in both the contemporary classical and improvised music fields) to the original mix and writing new, defying and more inclusive, in terms of vocabularies and grammars, scores for it. “How do we even start to look for all that ungraspable light?”, Melo Alves asks.

PERSONNEL:

  • Pedro Carneiro - maestro
  • Pedro Melo Alves - drums and percussion
  • José Diogo Martins - piano
  • Mané Fernandes - electric guitar
  • Pablo p. Moledo - doublebass
  • Clara Saleiro - flutes
  • João Pedro Brandão - flute and alto saxophone
  • osé Soares - alto saxophone
  • Albert Cirera - tenor and soprano saxophone
  • Frederic Cardoso - alto and bass clarinet
  • Álvaro Machado - bassoon
  • Gileno Santana- trumpet
  • Xavi Sousa - trombone
  • Ricardo Pereira - trombone
  • Fábio Rodrigues - tuba
  • Luís José Martins - classical guitar
  • Luís André Ferreira - cello
  • Alvaro Rosso - doublebass
  • Mariana Dionísio - voice
  • Nazaré da Silva - voice
  • Diogo Ferreira - voice
  • João Miguel Braga Simões - percussion
  • João Carlos Pinto - eletronics

Recorded in Guimarães, Portugal on the 22nd of November 2020

TRACKS:

  • 01.Ubi
  • 02.Phelia
  • 03.Onírea