Enleio by Parrinha, "Zíngaro", Lonberg-Holm, Madeira

Bruno Parrinha - bass clarinet
Carlos “Zíngaro” - violin
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello
João Madeira - double bass

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'String trio violin - cello - double bass with bass clarinet.
Portuguese violinist Carlos Alves “Zingaro” began a musical relationship with Chicagoan cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm many years ago in 2003: Grammar brought them together with turntable player Lou Mallozzi (Rossbin CD 2003) and Zingaro / Lonberg- Holm as a duo was recorded during the same trip (Aspidsitra label). Here they are again from 2024, in two sessions in Lisbon with double bassist João Madeira, the boss of 4DARecords, and respectively with clarinettist (bass) Bruno Parrinha on the present CD Enleio and with Swiss guitarist Florian Stoffner on the CD Na Parede released on the same 4DAR label, preceded by a digital release on Catalytic and reviewed in these pages. Enleio's music is at once or successively energetic, pointillist, multifaceted and constantly evolving according to the mood and instant inspiration of the four improvisers. It has several facets: in Trama (9:47) the improvisers jump up and down, re-launching each other with brief, zigzagging interventions that respond sharply to each other and play leapfrog without leaving each other any time to say phew, fragmentary ideas cascade... Note bass clarinettist Bruno Parrinha's decision to blend in with his bandmates as closely as possible, as if he were the viola in a quartet. He does this with flair, using small touches rather than playing the omnipresent soloist over his three comrades. Nervos 18'35'' begins with a slow lament in several voices forming expressive twists. The emphasis is on the quality of the bowing, the stretching of the sound, a specific timbre quality for each of the three string players, all coming together and distinguished by their respective dynamics, woody tactile vibrations and an intensely metamorphic quality. You really must listen again to this long second piece, with its multiple phases, its asperities, its liquid or silver fluctuations, its nuances, its playful diversions and its sometimes contrasting moving forms. If the violins and cellos are made of wood, the generic terminology for winds such as clarinets is “woodwinds”. The blower is so much a part of this quartet, it was hard to believe it. Liames 11'35'“ deepens Nervos” initial approach with more detachment, slowness and languor, and a fine section of powerful pizzicatos from João Madeira. Note the contrast between Zingaro's arabesque flights and some of Lonberg-Holm's manic, astringent rubbings, and also how they integrate their respective facetiousness with complicit coherence. In Enleio, 5'34'' , the last piece, Lonberg-Holm initiates jolting bow strokes, we hear col legno, squeaks, the key pressed to the point of making the string shriek, the violin whistling in the treble, In other words, a beautiful and dense concentration of expressive sonorities, such as the modus operandi, empathy and manic feeling of collective free improvisation that leads instrumentalists in trance to let burst through our dazzled perception. A truly successful session.' Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com
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(...)'Enleio features the string trio with local bass clarinetist José Bruno Parrinha, who has recorded before with Madeira (and is known for his ongoing work with violinist and Creative Source label head Ernesto Rodrigues’ ensembles). The album was recorded at Oficina das Artes in Lisbon in November 2024. The atmosphere is restless and much more powerful. The quartet often opts for intense, dark, and woody sonic collisions in which the fearless and strong-minded voices of these seasoned improvisers entangle around each other and explore thorny and uncompromising, uncharted textures, even in the most quiet and lyrical segments.' Eyal Hareuveni, salt-peanuts.eu
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"Again from Portugal, specifically from the Oficina das Artes in Lisbon, comes this intense recording by the quartet around double bassist Joao Madeira, this time with Carlos Zingaro on violin, Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello, and Bruno Parrinha on bass clarinet.
The string trio finds a perfect listener to their strings in Bruno Parrinha, a dialogue that unfolds relentlessly over four tracks, brimming with inspirations that are immediately revisited and interwoven into responses and ideas that appear as if from a magician's hat.
The four instruments also deliver melodies made of unusual sounds drawn from instruments played with unorthodox techniques, yet rich in emotion, the joy of coming together and celebrating the avant-garde.
A beautiful encounter between the Portuguese musicians and the American Fred Lonberg-Holm, musically on the same wavelength."
Rating: 9/10 Vittorio Loconte, Kathodik.org

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João Madeira has been totally committed to discovering new processes of creating and composing music, whilst, at the same time, exploring new concepts of musical performance.
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“A Fábrica de Nada”, 2005, and “A Máquina Hamlet”, 2020 - “Parece que o Mundo”, 2018, (contemporary dance).

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