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Má Estrela

by Pedro Alves Sousa

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1.
Coroação 10:43
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2.
Prata Arqueiro 05:43
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Horizonte Inteiro 14:40
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Má Estrela 06:03
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Esmalte 05:34
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Pedro Alves Sousa - Tenor saxophone & electronics
Simão Simões - Electronics
Bruno Silva - Electronics
Miguel Abras - Electric bass
Gabriel Ferrandini - Drums & electronics

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Before firming himself as one of the most abrasive free jazz/free music saxophone players in Portugal, Pedro Sousa was involved with the most cutting-edge exploratory electronic music, using samplers and electric guitar in the trio OTO. Those two sides are unexpectedly combined in this new “Má Estrela”, his very personal vision of the dub recording/processing strategies, extended to psychedelic dimensions and fed with a tribal feeling, very dark and oniric, part DJ Screw, part Pole, part Porter Ricks, part Steve Lehman (specially, the spectral jazz octet of the New York saxophonist). For this mind-puzzling achievement he amplified the sax via guitar and bass amplifiers and an effects pedalboard, and – at the exception of drummer Gabriel Ferrandini (Red Trio, Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio), his most frequent companion in music - asked for the company of musicians coming out of the jazz field: electronicists Bruno Silva and Simão Simões introduce the post-soul and footwork resources and bassist Miguel Abras the punk/industrial attitude. The final result is a kind of ambient jazz with reggae methodologies and dancing polyrhythms you can not dance to, heavy, slow, depressed (what to expect from these times of pandemic science fiction turned reality?), and cathartic. Even inside the shadows you can find hope.

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released February 4, 2022

Recorded 15-09-2021 at Galeria Zé dos Bois by Kellzo
Mixed and edited by Pedro Alves Sousa
Mastered by Carlos Nascimento
Produced by Pedro Alves Sousa
Executive Production by Travassos for Trem Azul
All photos by Pedro Alves Sousa and Simão Simões
Design and layout by Simão Simões

Released on Shhpuma Records with support from Futuro Familiar

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