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LUMINA

Pedro Melo Alves’ Omniae Large Ensemble

Pedro Carneiro  maestro | Pedro Melo Alves  drums and percussion | José Diogo Martins  piano | Mané Fernandes  electric guitar | Pablo p. Moledo  doublebass | Clara Saleiro  flutes | João Pedro Brandão  flute and alto saxophone | José Soares  alto saxophone | Albert Cirera  tenor and soprano saxophone | Frederic Cardoso  alto and bass clarinet | Álvaro Machado  bassoon | Gileno Santana  trumpet | Xavi Sousa  trombone | Ricardo Pereira  trombone | Fábio Rodrigues  tuba | Luís José Martins  classical guitar | Luís André Ferreira  cello | Alvaro Rosso  doublebass | Mariana Dionísio  voice | Nazaré da Silva  voice | Diogo Ferreira  voice | João Miguel Braga Simões  percussion | João Carlos Pinto  eletronics

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“We sure are alive”, writes Pedro Melo Alves in the liner notes of “Lumina”. It’s true, the music inside is a survival chant: we made it, after two years of a science fiction-like nightmare. And suddenly, there’s some light. The Portuguese composer and drummer was the winner in 2016 of the Bernardo Sassetti Award with the first version of his Omniae Ensemble concept. At the invitation of the Guimarães Jazz Festival in 2020, during a brief interval between lockdowns, he transformed the original septet to a 23-elements large ensemble, adding electronics, tuba, clarinet, flutes, bassoon  1 deposit casino nz.com , cello, classical guitar, three singers and a maestro (Pedro Carneiro, also known as a percussionist in both the contemporary classical and improvised music fields) to the original mix and writing new, defying and more inclusive, in terms of vocabularies and grammars, scores for it. “How do we even start to look for all that ungraspable light?”, Melo Alves asks. Well, this is how.

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All compositions and arrangements by Pedro Melo Alves

Recorded live by João Bessa at Centro Cultural de Vila Flor, Guimarães, on the 22nd of November 2020, Part of Guimarães Jazz 2020, by invitation of Ivo Martins | Edited by Pedro Melo Alves | Mixed and mastered by João Bessa
Produced by António Fernandes | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos | Photo by Matilde Cunha, art direction and post-production by ELLEONOR

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