New album at clean feed is out

2010/02/01

Finally and after a long wait RED trio’s debut CD at Clean Feed is out!

At July 2008 we where lucky to be able to do a three day residency at Moagem, Fundão. We played and recorded for hours and hours and the result was impressive: the trio got a new sound and we lots of recording sessions with extremely interesting material. At the end of the residency we had a concert.

The Red Trio is quite a unique case in the Portuguese jazz and improvised music scene. The free music played by Rodrigo Pinheiro (piano, prepared piano), Hernâni Faustino (double bass), and Gabriel Ferrandini (drums, percussion) have no attachment to anything else presented in the little European country known for its unusually dynamic jazz, improvised and experimental scenes. And even considering a wider scenario, few piano trios existing in the world can be comparable to what we find in this debut CD. Firstly, because this isn't really a piano trio. The pianist is not the central figure here, even if we imediatly recognise Pinheiro's resourceful and virtuosistic capacities, and the rhythm section, well, isn't in fact a rhythm section, the bass and the drums always intervening side-by-side with the harmonic instrument. This is indeed collective music, with no hierarchical roles for the intervenients, and conventions like melody and pulse are generally subverted, or replaced by textural instant constructions. In the middle of all the abstractions created, the connections with jazz are not lost – truth is they surface with a welcomed evidence. Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor are recognisable, if distant, influences. The same we can say about the references to contemporary classical music, and namely to Messiaen and Ligeti. This is very intense music, sometimes even violent, but with space for detail. Quite a surprise, indeed.

Other News

• RED trio at "Jazz em Agosto"
• RED trio + John Butcher in Spain
• RED trio at New York and Chicago
• RED trio with John Butcher tour
• RED trio at Utrecht Jazz Fest
• New album at clean feed is out

Upcoming concerts

• Jazz em Agosto @ Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa 2010/08/14
• with John Butcher at Imaxinasons @ , Vigo 2010/07/01
• RED trio @ Heaven Gallery, Chicago 2010/05/14
• RED trio + Nate Wooley @ Cornelia Street Café, New York 2010/05/08
• RED trio + John Butcher @ Aud. Ruy de Carvalho, Oeiras 2010/04/10
• RED trio + John Butcher @ Serralves, Porto 2010/04/09
• RED trio + John Butcher @ CAE, Portalegre 2010/04/08
• RED trio + John Butcher @ Culturgest, Lisboa 2010/04/07