Marta Warelis / Carlos "Zíngaro" / Helena Espvall / Marcelo dos Reis - Turquoise Dream (March 2021 Jacc Records)

1. Finer Grades 06:59

2. Pale Bluish 10:23

3. Specific Gravity 07:47

4. Revealing a Line 08:59

5. Blue to Green 07:06

Marta Warelis - piano

Carlos “Zíngaro” - violin

Helena Espvall - cello and effects

Marcelo dos Reis - acoustic guitar

ALL MUSIC BY

Marta Warelis, Carlos "Zíngaro", Helena Espvall and Marcelo dos Reis

RECORDED

Live at Museu National Machado de Castro

Jazz ao Centro Festival 2019

19th October 2019

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION

JACC Records

RECORDED BY

João P. Miranda

MIX AND MASTER

Marcelo dos Reis

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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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Marcelo Dos Reis / Eve Risser - Timeless (JACC RECORDS 2017)

The first meeting of French pianist Eve Risser and Portuguese guitarist Marcelo dos Reis is a journey with and within strings, many and strange kind of strings (borrowing the title of Sun Ra's seminal album). Both Risser and Reis employ unconventional strategies that extend the sonic palette of the piano keys and its metal strings and the acoustic guitar's nylon strings, preparing their instruments by attaching various objects to their strings.

Risser and dos Reis already established themselves as improvisers who like to experiment with sounds, textures and formats. Risser who also plays the harpsichord, blurred the distinctions between new music, composition and improvisation with her White Desert Orchestra and explored song formats with the free-improvising The New Songs quartet. Dos Reis has collaborated with like-minded experimental improvisers such as Elliot Sharp, Toshimaru Nakamura and Andrea Neumann, plays in a duo with harpist Angélica V. Salvi and in the free jazz meets free-improvisation groups Fail Better!, Chamber 4, and Pedra Contida.

Timeless was recorded at Jazz ao Centro Festival, Coimbra, Portugal in October 2016. The seven pieces are titled after different artifacts, devices and seasons that measure time, but these free-associative improvisations actually consciously do not surrender easily to any sense of time. Risser and dos Reis flow with the sounds and explore their infinite spectrum. Both focus on shaping and sculpting their resonance and friction qualities until you are lost in sonic turbulence and can not tell any more who does what. Risser and dos Reis at times sound as incorporating ideas from the minimalist compositions of Morton Feldman, blended with Japanese ritual koto traditions as on the enigmatic-exotic “Hourglass” and “Balance Spring”. Other pieces stress the resourcefulness of both as highly imaginative improvisers. “Water Clock” shifts instantly from a leisured, mysterious soundscape to an urgent and intense free-improvisation and “Timewheel” offers an even denser and tougher version of such free-improvisation. “Chronometer” is the only piece that suggests a melodic-playful vein and the dense commotion of “Pendulum” even hides a lyrical theme.

Timeless offers a rare kind of beauty. Review by Eyal Hareuveni, freejazzblog.org

1. Sundial  9:33

2. Hourglass  8:48

3. Water Clock 10:19

4. Timewheel  5:25

5. Chronometer  5:31

6. Pendulum  6:36

7. Balance Spring  8:22

Eve Risser  unprepared and prepared piano 

Marcelo dos Reis unprepared and prepared acoustic guitar