Quest, by Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes

Quest

by Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes

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1.	Twisted Movements 05:08	buy track
2.	Sparks and Crackles 03:27	buy track
3.	From Mist to Nothing 06:14	buy track
4.	Dream 08:58	buy track
5.	Interlude 02:02	buy track
6.	Night Drive 05:02	buy track
7.	Quest 05:25	buy track
8.	Let Bygones be Bygones 03:28	buy track
9.	This Frozen Sea 04:50	buy track

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JOANA GAMA . piano
LUÍS FERNANDES . electronics

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The piano / electronics format is not a novelty, coming from John Cage associations with David Tudor and having as a notorious example the recent Alva Noto / Ryuichi Sakamoto duos. What is really surprising in this “Quest” is the combination of a classical pianist, Joana Gama, with a live processing laborer and synthesist active in the experimental fringes of pop music, Luís Fernandes. Exactly: the soul behind the ambient act The Astroboy and a founder member of the song-oriented band peixe:avião, one of the most applauded projects in a new wave of the Portuguese “indie” creativity.

The result is neither a “contemporary” nor a “chill out” recording, and it isn’t also a post-modern hybrid of both approaches, but something else. It’s not the piano, nor the electronic manipulations, which are in focus, but the multiple ways in which the piano sounds are transformed, dissected, looped and put upside down. Like if a third instrument is phantomized by the two others in presence. This description may give the idea that the pieces assembled in this CD are a series of cold, dry and abstract deconstructions, but that’s not the case: everything flows like Zen soundscapes in the inner world inside our heads, and the music has a poetic, lyrical dimension that makes us reconnect with the idea of Beauty of the Ancient Greeks.

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released September 18, 2020

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