Albert Cirera & Kamarilla - Aquella Cosa (March 2022 UnderPool)

Albert Cirera is one of the most prominent saxophonists of his generation; essential for understanding the current jazz scene and one of the greatest exponents of improvisation in the last decade in Catalonia.

He has managed to develop a solid trajectory both at home and abroad which has enabled him to perform in different international scenes.

On Aquella Cosa, Cirera puts together a collection of his originals and gives them new life with this septet. The complicity they share enables them to construct a language comprising melodies, grooves, and improvisation, along with experimentation with sound, texture and form.

Albert Cirera is a mature musician; capable of expressing himself comfortably in any of the musical registers he has tackled; demonstrating that music is not so much a question of style as it is of experience.

Albert Cirera and Kamarilla make music in its purest form. Aquella Cosa will make you laugh, dance ,breathe, and live!

1. Riff i Rafe 08:08

2. Musica Celestial 06:00

3. On Parra L'Eternitat? 04:37

4. Aquella Cosa 05:44

5. Bressolar 07:15

6. Rosso & Cia 11:26

7. Requiem a Ferlandina 05:30

8. Traigo la Cena (Bonus Track CD) 06:14

9. L'Agonia a Lapa - Live at Hot Blues (Bonus Track CD) 11:45

Albert Cirera - Tenor and Soprano Sax

Marcel.lí Bayer - Alto Sax, Clarinet & Bass Clarinet

Iván González - Trumpet

Pol Padrós - Trumpet

Vicent Pérez - Trombone

Martin Leiton - Electric Bass

Ramon Prats - Drums

All music composed by Albert Cirera.

Track 3 based on a Bach Coral BWV 510.

Recorded 25 & 26 June 2021 UnderPool Studio.

Analog Mix and Master by Sergi Felipe

Artwork Pepon Meneses.

Produced and Published UnderPool

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Clara Lai - Creciente (January 2022 UnderPool)

This work on the compositional process informs the creator's musical universe. Over the years she has worked continuously to consolidate her own uninhibited voice, which in turn has considerably enriched the current musical panorama.

The album strikes a balance between improvisation and composition; featuring the musical voices of Albert Cirera, Iván Gonzalez, and Joan Moll who contribute their own personal traits to the whole; resulting in a unified abstract vision that is captivating for the listener.

Clara Lai's music becomes a mirror in which one recognizes one's own emotions, and where contemporary forms reveal new unsuspected horizons..

1. Introducción A 02:30

2. Introducción B 01:54

3. Nueva 11:43

4. Creciente 10:24

5. Llena 04:39

6. Menguante 02:19

7. Epílogo 10:17

Clara Lai - Piano & Composition

Albert Cirera - Tenor Sax

Iván González - Trumpet

Joan Moll - Drums

All music composeed by Clara Lai

Tracks 1,2,6 Composed by Clara Lai & Albert Cirera

Recorded live at Teatre de l'Aurora, Igualada, by Adrià Serrano & Sergi Felipe on 21 june 2021

Mixed and Mastered by Adrià Serrano

Cover Ana Escar, Design Pepon Meneses

Produced by UnderPool

Published by UnderPool

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João Lencastre's Communion - Unlimited Dreams (October 15, 2021)

1. Clouds

2. Insomnia

3. The Mystery Path

4. Mitote

5. No Filter

6. Unlimited Dreams

João Lencastre: drums & composition

Albert Cirera: tenor & soprano saxophones

Ricardo Toscano: alto saxophone

Benny Lackner: piano & electronics

André Fernandes: electric guitar

Pedro Branco: electric guitar

João Hasselberg: electric bass & electronics

Nelson Cascais: double bass

Recorded by André Tavares at Estúdios Atlântico Blue on the 19th and 20th of May 2021

Mixed and mastered by André Tavares

Produced by João Lencastre

Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul

Artwork by Travassos

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Fail Better! - The Fall (2021 Jacc Records)

1. Ground Floor 07:23

2. Rise Up 06:44

3. Falling Stars 13:58

4. Skyfall 06:54

5. Down Under 07:36

Luís Vicente - trumpet

Marco Franco - drums and flute

Marcelo dos Reis - electric guitar

José Miguel Pereira - double bass

Albert Cirera - soprano and tenor saxophone

ALL MUSIC BY

Marcelo dos Reis, Marco Franco, Luís Vicente, José Miguel Pereira and Albert Cirera

RECORDED

Live at Salão Brazil

JACC - Jazz ao Centro Clube

20th October 2017

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION

JACC Records

MIX AND MASTER

Marcelo dos Reis

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Albert Cirera / Alexis Perepelycia - La Melodía del Idioma (NendoDango Records)

Este es el resultado obtenido de la suma de giros lingüísticos de Albert Cirera (España) y Alexis Perepelycia (Argentina).

Reunidos por primera vez en un encuentro tan fortuito como fugaz: Albert pasó un día por Rosario, ambos tocaron juntos en el ciclo de improvisación all free! y al día siguiente grabaron estas músicas.

Como una explosión, mezcla de ansiedades y certezas la música salió así, de una y sin tapujos, sincera y visceral.

El lenguaje en tanto que entidad viva evoluciona constantemente, de otro modo moriría. La melodía del idioma también: puja constantemente por devenir sonido en movimiento, elementos de una estructura que se construye a cada instante, se inventa y se reinventa, de otro modo moriría.

En formato de dúo acústico: tambores y metales, una fanfarria con innumerables semblanzas, pero con una búsqueda propia.

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"Another ingenious saxophone-drums duo pf Albert Cirera, very different from Duot, yet equally creative and innovative. During his visi to Argentina in 2019, Albert encounters here a phenomenal Argentinian drummer Alexis Perepelycia.

They play three tracks, all very abstract and very expressive,d to compare to anything I know. Maybe some recordings of Evan Parker have similar spirit -- listen to the opening "Surubí frito". "Litoral" is on the lyrical free improvisation side. More quiet an dpeaceful, contains nevertheless incredible emotional load.

The best, however, is the closing, the most "traditional free jazz" track, "Espinas". The album deserves ***, the only drawback is the total length of it: only 25 minutes." (Maciej Lewenstein)

1. Surubí frito 06:46

2. Litoral 09:28

3. Espinas 08:45

Albert Cirera - saxophone

Alexis Perepelycia - drums

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Alexis Perepelycia at La Rana Estudio, November 21, 2019, Rosario, Argentina.

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Albert Cirera - Lisboa's Work (MULTIKULTI PROJECT 2017)

Albert Cirera / Hernâni Faustino / Luís Lopes / Vasco Furtado - Temple of Doom (DISCORDIAN RECORDS 2017)

1. Dogmatic Elders Of Doom 10:04

2. A Lambskin Apron 04:39

3. The Sublime Degree 07:28

4. Disrupted Sacred Geometry And The Void 18:56

5. Outward Introspection 05:21

Albert Cirera: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

Luís Lopes: guitar

Hernâni Faustino: double bass

Vasco Furtado: drums

All music by Albert Cirera, Hernâni Faustino, Luís Lopes and Vasco Furtado 

Recorded on the 24th January 2016, Lisbon 

Recorded by Vasco Furtado

João Hasselberg & Pedro Branco - From Order to Chaos (CLEAN FEED RECORDS 2017)

Only a few months after the debuting success of the album “Dancing Our Way to Death”, the partnership of the Portuguese, but living in Copenhagen, double bassist João Hasselberg and the also Portuguese, but established in Amsterdam, guitarist Pedro Branco is back with “From Order to Chaos”.

The arguments presented make us expect other grand results, maybe even stronger, such is the programmatic range of the concept announced by the title “From Order to Chaos”. It’s not difficult to understand why: together and each one by his side, with their own individual projects and through collaborations with others, Hasselberg and Branco are renewing the jazz tradition with the internalization of aspects coming from both popular music (folk, pop, rock) and art music (contemporary classical, experimental, free improvised), taking down the barriers still dividing “high culture” and “low culture”.

Some of the participants are the same of the previous record (such is the case of the virtuoso guitar player Afonso Pais), establishing a sense of continuity, but others are added, like the Catalan Albert Cirera, a saxophonist at ease in both mainstream and avant-garde situations. The music is so familiarly strange, so bizarrely accessible, that you soon become addicted.

1. One for Debord  3:02

2. Crossing the Street so I Don't Have to Say Hello  3:27

3. Sisyphus Back Pain  5:16

4. While Trees Turn White  3:33

5. Basquiat's Moses  2:17

6. One for Debord – Reprise  2:57

7. Improv I  1:40

8. I Would Prefer Not To  2:45

9. Absolutely Overwhelming Revelation  1:18

João Hasselberg  double bass, electric bass  

Pedro Branco  guitar  

Albert Cirera  saxophone (5,8)  

Afonso Pais  guitar (1,6 )

João Paulo Esteves da Silva  piano (1,6)  

Luis Figueiredo  piano (3)

João Lencastre  drums

Recorded by Rui Guerreiro at Auditório Municipal do Seixal

Produced, mixed and mastered by João Hasselberg and Pedro Branco | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors - Suite Salada (UNDERPOOL 2017)

Después de la buena acogida de el primer disco «Els Encants» (FSNT, 2012) Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors presenta su segundo disco, "Suite Salada" (UnderPool, 2017). Un trabajo que expande un poco mas las fronteras de este grupo hacia caminos mas libres y profundos, pero sin dejar de ser el proyecto mas lírico de Cirera. Un trabajo que muestra, una vez mas, la conexión entre estos cuatro músicos , enlazando, en unos 50 minutos de música, paisajes sonoros, melodías, interludios e improvisaciones, llenas de energía, carácter y sorpresa.

Siempre con los infinitos matices de la palabra belleza, y el viaje colectivo como punto de referencia, estos cuatro músicos juegan con la música propuesta por Cirera como cuatro niños divirtiéndose en alguna playa menorquina, isla que inspira a Cirera para dar luz a esta idea que hacia años que perseguía. 

After the first album "Els Encants" (FSNT, 2012) Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors presents his second album, "Suite Salada" (UnderPool, 2017). A work that expands a little more the frontiers of this group towards freer and deeper ways, but still being the most lyrical project of Cirera. A work that shows, once again, the connection between these four musicians, linking in 50 minutes of music, soundscapes, melodies, interludes and improvisations, full of energy, character and surprise.


Always with the infinite nuances of the word beauty, and the collective journey as a point of reference, these four musicians play with music proposed by Cirera as four children having fun on some beach in Menorca, an island that inspires Cirera to give light to this idea For years I was after.

1. S'Auba

2. Tantra

3. 5 Anys

4. Jaleo

5. Es Fosquet

6. Tails

Albert Cirera - Saxo

Marco Mezquida - Piano

Mark Lohikari - Contrabaix

Oscar Domenech - Bateria

Albert Cirera / Hernâni Faustino / Gabriel Ferrandini / Agustí Fernández - BEFORE THE SILENCE (NO BUSSINES RECORDS 2016)

Awesome!

Impresionante!

Albert Cirera - tenor and soprano sax

Hernâni Faustino - bass

Gabriel Ferrandini - drums

Agustí Fernández - piano

FOTOGRAFÍAS CORTESIA DE ROBERTO DOMÍNGUEZ

FOTOGRAFIANDO EL JAZZ

1. Before 15:58

2. The 22:15

3. Silence 20:29

4. Coda 4:31

All music by Cirera, Fernandez, Faustino and Ferrandini

Recorded at the Jazz Cava de Vic by Ralph Lopinski during the Voll Damm Festival Jazz Vic the 9th of May, 2015

Mixed by Ferran Conangla in Barcelona

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Art cover “Boc enfontsan-se a la sorra sota una rosella” by Antoni Carné

Photos by Roberto Dominguez

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis

Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

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