José Lencastre Nau Quartet + Pedro Carneiro - Thoughts Are Things (July 23, 2021 Phonogram Unit)

" I´m very happy to share with all of you “Thoughts are Things “ the new release by Nau Quartet.

This time we invited master marimba player Pedro Carneiro. I first heard about Pedro maybe some 15 years ago and I kept this name in my mind as someone I admire and would like to work with. A few years later I spent a trimester in Rochester, where I would attend the performances by the Percussive Department at Eastman School of Music. These always blew my mind, much more than the jazz ones I must say! The marimbas, vibes, and other percussive instruments were playing amazing contemporary compsitions like I have never witnessd before.

The title of the album has to do with the manifestation in the direction of materializing our ideals, goals, etc. Edward Walker, the author, defends that we create our own character and personality by the thoughts we originate, or accept from others. We are, each of us, the result of what we have thought in the past; we will be the result of what we are now thinking.

Thoughts are mental Things, and tend to become material Things. The Ideal becomes Real. Our dreams come true.

I sincerely hope you enjoy it!

Last but not least, a huge thanks to Rodrigo, Hernâni, and my brother João, for their beautiful friendship and music."

José Lencastre

1. One Way to Cultivate Courage 11:17

2. Thought Atmospheres 08:14

3. Your Latent Powers 13:16

4. The Magnet of Thought 16:24

Pedro Carneiro - Marimba

José Lencastre - Tenor and Alto Sax

Hernâni Faustino - Double Bass

Rodrigo Pinheiro - Piano

João Lencastre - Drums

All music by Nau Quartet + Pedro Carneiro

Recorded by João Sousa at OCP - Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa, Algés ( PT ) on March 7th 2021

Mixed and Mastered by Luís Delgado

Cover Illustration by João Lomelino

Artwork by João Lomelino

Band photo by Nuno Martins

Produced by José Lencastre

Executive Production by Phonogram Unit

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Hamar Trio - Yesterday Is Here (CLEAN FEED RECORDS 2018)

Here is an example of a specially well succeeded co-operation between a notorious representative of the Norwegian scene (Klaus Ellerhusen Holm) and two of the Portuguese one (Hernâni Faustino and Nuno Morão), combining the recordings of live presentations in a couple of spaces dedicated to creative music in Portugal, Salão Brazil (Coimbra) and SMUP (Parede). If you’re a Clean Feed fan you already listened other titles documented in both venues, by the likes of Steve Lehman, Ken Vandermark’s and Adam Lane’s Four Corners, Fredrik Nordstrom Quintet, Daniel Levin Quartet, Zanussi 5, Angles, Harris Heisenstadt’s Canada Day and others. “Yesterday is Here” has the same relevance, and it equals what you know of Holm from the bands Honest John, Ballrogg and Abaft the Beam, of Faustino from Red Trio and of Morão from The Selva: music committed to «celebrate the moment», to paraphrase Derek Bailey, only answering to the appeal of spontaneity and intuition, in a very natural and even organic way. The framing is in jazz and experimentation, meaning that everything else that may happen disregard labels and any sort of categorization. A party for your ears, in short.

Klaus Ellerhusen Holm  clarinet alto saxophone

Hernâni Faustino  double bass

Nuno Morão  drums percussion

1. Yellow Plum 14:54

2. Sjøorm 08:52

3. Sour apple 13:32

4. Yesterday is here 06:26

All music by Klaus Ellerhusen Holm, Hernâni Faustino and Nuno Morão

Recorded November 2016 at Salão Brazil, Coimbra by José Martins and at SMUP, Parede by John Klima | Mixed and mastered by Nuno Morão at ScratchBuilt

Produced by Hamar Trio | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos | Cover photo by Magdalene Norman | Band photo by João Duarte

Suspensão - Physis (2018)

1. Physis 32:54

Ernesto Rodrigues - viola

Miguel Mira - cello

Hernâni Faustino - double bass

André Hencleeday - psaltery, zither

Abdul Moimême - prepared electric guitar

Rodrigo Pinheiro - piano

Nuno Torres - alto saxophone

Eduardo Chagas - trombone

Carlos Santos - electronics

Nuno Morão - percussio

Suspensão - Théatron (2018)

1. Théatron 57:55

Ernesto Rodrigues  viola

Yu Lin Hum  cello

Hernâni Faustino  double bass

Nuno Torres  alto saxophone

Eduardo Chagas  trombone

Rodrigo Pinheiro  piano

Emídio Buchinho  electric guitar

Flak acoustic guitar

André Hencleeday  tenor psaltery

Carlos Santos  electronics

Nuno Morão  percussion

Yedo Gibson / Hernâni Faustino / Vasco Trilla - Chain (NoBusiness Records September 2017)

Yedo Gibson - baritone and soprano saxophone

Hernâni Faustino - double bass

Vasco Trilla - drums and percussion

1. Mesh 8:44

2. Gear 8:15

3. Lock 10:40

4. Axis 11:45

5. Pivot 13:59

6. Tooth 8:03

All music by Gibson, Faustino and Trilla

Recorded on the 14th June, 2016 at Scratch Built Studio, Lisbon by John Klima

Mixed by Rafal Drewniany

Mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios

Photo of Yedo Gibson by Peter Gannushkin

Photos of Hernâni Faustino and Vasco Trilla by Nuno Martins

Design by Oskaras Anosovas

Produced by Danas Mikailionis

Co-producer - Valerij Anosov

NoBusiness Records NBCD 101

Release year - 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

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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