Jose Lencastre

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Everything in a Nau Quartet (the brothers José and João Lencastre plus 2/3 of Red Trio – Rodrigo Pinheiro and Hernâni Faustino) concert is improvised, benefiting from a stage situation. Here we find the Portuguese musicians when they played live in Russia one year ago, precisely the situation they fulfill best. In such a manner that each track is a statement in itself, very affirmative and with an astonishing drive and commitment – the same of the founders of both free jazz and free music, the two traditions these four dedicate themselves to converge and cross-polinate. Their concept is their praxis, and it’s simple to enunciate: always to use open and spontaneous structures, developing the emerging ideas collectively and in an organic, fluid, way. In the gathered improvisations you can recognize much more than the reconciled jazz and free improv lineages.

PERSONNEL:

• JOSÉ LENCASTRE, alto saxophone
• RODRIGO PINHEIRO, piano
• HERNÂNI FAUSTINO, double bass
• JOAO LENCASTRE, drums

Recorded live on September 20th, 2018 at DOM Cultural Center, Moscow

TRACKS:

• 01. Water Vodka
• 02. Red Square
• 03. Old Metro
• 04. Sunny Moscow