jazz / experimental
‘Quinta do Lobo’... These words in portuguese could be translated as 'wolf interval', or that Pythagorean scale's interval that was compared to a wolf's howl and constantly avoided in the compositions that were written when this tuning was practically the most used in western world. Undoubtedly this is a very interesting name - even if only for its "sonority characteristics" - for this album recorded by André de Castro and Leandro De Los Santos. Well, their recording was "so live" that you can even listen to the sound made by cars passing at their street (listen carefully to the beginning of track 6, and entire tracks 8 and 9)!!!
In addition, the attribute that draws more attention in this album is the highly comprehensive character in terms of idiomatic - or musical styles - that were used in all its tracks! Of course the "language" that unites all these diverse influences is free jazz, as you may listen in tracks 3/8/9/10, however, there is sound processing, drones, ambient music, and much more just acting as a "differentiated packaging" in tracks 1/2/4/5/11. As if this weren't enough, we can still perceive some sonorities that remit us to a past that, in some way, was constructed by our collective unconscious to answer the question about how would be the sound of our primitive music... A curious phenomenon that happens while you are listening to tracks 6 and 7.
All these characteristics hide another interesting fact: “Quinta do Lobo” is a conceptual work, but it wasn't born this way. When André was in charge of giving the songs' titles, he noticed a cohesion between them and decided to "make a link" with the Lupa capitolina's image from the album cover. He selected the most important cities of Ancient Rome, as a kind of "main concept", and named each track with a title in portuguese that was thought the most appropriate in relation to them. So, if music is made by a set of factors that go beyond itself, I have no doubt that this work is a big and welcome surprise for free jazz enthusiasts!!! If you consider yourself a fan of this style, let yourself be surprised by Quinta do Lobo!!! If you have a label, and are looking for something cool to release on physical media, this is an awesome choice for that!!!
Glauber
In addition, the attribute that draws more attention in this album is the highly comprehensive character in terms of idiomatic - or musical styles - that were used in all its tracks! Of course the "language" that unites all these diverse influences is free jazz, as you may listen in tracks 3/8/9/10, however, there is sound processing, drones, ambient music, and much more just acting as a "differentiated packaging" in tracks 1/2/4/5/11. As if this weren't enough, we can still perceive some sonorities that remit us to a past that, in some way, was constructed by our collective unconscious to answer the question about how would be the sound of our primitive music... A curious phenomenon that happens while you are listening to tracks 6 and 7.
All these characteristics hide another interesting fact: “Quinta do Lobo” is a conceptual work, but it wasn't born this way. When André was in charge of giving the songs' titles, he noticed a cohesion between them and decided to "make a link" with the Lupa capitolina's image from the album cover. He selected the most important cities of Ancient Rome, as a kind of "main concept", and named each track with a title in portuguese that was thought the most appropriate in relation to them. So, if music is made by a set of factors that go beyond itself, I have no doubt that this work is a big and welcome surprise for free jazz enthusiasts!!! If you consider yourself a fan of this style, let yourself be surprised by Quinta do Lobo!!! If you have a label, and are looking for something cool to release on physical media, this is an awesome choice for that!!!
Glauber
