Barbatrama ( Shhpuma 2021), by The Selva + Machinefabriek

Barbatrama ( Shhpuma 2021)

by The Selva + Machinefabriek

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	1.	Barbatrama 01:29
	2.	Ramatarba 05:01
	3.	Babarmatra 02:47
	4.	Tramabarba 01:53
	5.	Mabartrama 08:13
	6.	Trabamaba 02:21
	7.	Bamabartra 05:16
	8.	Marbatraba 04:27
	9.	Bamartaba 04:54

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The Portuguese word Selva means “Jungle”, and this collaborative opus with Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek is one more incursion towards Paradox. The Selva made this paradoxal enterprise its trademark: a trio with two string players (cello, bass) and a drummer with free improvisation and creative jazz as the matrix of their playing, but combining it with other musical languages, going from a deterritorialized kind of imaginary folk or world music to the picking of Renaissance and contemporary chamber music motives and formats. In “Barbatrama”, the band extends this kind of approach to experimental electroacoustics. The post-production electronic processings of Machinefabriek enabled Ricardo Jacinto, Gonçalo Almeida and Nuno Morão to go to unpredictable consequences: a puzzling sort of cybernetic tribal music, primeval dance rhythms associating with the space imaginaries introduced by Sun Ra but also Tangerine Dream. All musical appropriations introduced between these two parameters acts as flashes through human music history, and you can hear, here reflected, a plurality of sound visions, temporal and geographic: for instance, echoes of the string quartets from Mozart to Kurtág combine with pulsative structures that could come either from progressive rock or post-rock. All this with a disconcerting naturality, resulting in a fascinating trans-idiomatic music which dissolves in each one of the quoted idioms. In such a way that every attempt to label this album is an impossibility. A welcomed impossibility, that is.

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released May 17, 2021

Ricardo Jacinto : cello
Gonçalo Almeida : double bass
Nuno Morão : drums
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Rutger Zuydervelt: post production and electronics

Mastered by Nuno Morão
Artwork by Travassos
Edited by Shhpuma
Produced by Osso Collective

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Gonçalo Almeida Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bassist and composer Gonçalo Almeida (Lisbon, 1978) lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands.He has been making a mark as one of Netherlands’s most interesting new generation bass players. His projects involve the forerunners of the Dutch and Portuguese jazz scenes, bridging modern jazz, free jazz, jazzcore and free improvisation. ... more

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