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New Album “Maloca” by MoFrancesco Quintetto with Bassist Francesco Valente
New Album “Maloca” by MoFrancesco Quintetto with Bassist Francesco Valente – Maloca was released by American label, Art Of Life Records:
www.artofliferecords.com/maloca.html
In Portugal the album was released in physical format, with the distribution of Ponto Zurca:
www.pontozurca.pt/?cpt_discography=mofrancesco-quintetto-maloca
The project was born at the end of the academic year 2010/11 of the degree in Jazz Music at ESML, Escola Superior de Musica de Lisboa. On the occasion of the last recital of Francesco Valente, on 28/06/11, this quintet has emerged that exhibited with original compositions. Following training began acting in Lisbon in several places where there is a weekly Jazz agenda, and began to act also outside this context (Italian Film Festival, Volvo Ocean Race, Universidade Nova with David Murray etc.). In this past year the quintet have recorded his first album “Maloca”, wich it was released by Art of Life Records.
The Line-up is:
- Guto Lucena (Tenor and soprano Sax, Bass Clarinet)
- Johannes Krieger (Trumpet)
- Iuri Gaspar (Piano)
- Miguel Moreira (Drums)
- Francesco Valente (Double Bass)
The Quintet proposes a modern jazz and fusion music with Mediterranean and Iberian classic and traditional music. The aim is to join the universal language of jazz music and an array improvisative original arrangements and also expressing the essence of the music from the land of origin of the musicians, in particular different styles and sounds of the Mediterranean.
Maloca is a reference to the ancestral house used by natives in Amazon, the reason about this reference is the interest of Francesco Valente about the culture of Brasil, in his diversity and hibriditys forms, in precolonial, colonial and post-colonial periods. Maloca have the meaning of centre of the universe, and at the same time the house where natives receives foreign people, where they enact the interchange of knowledge, experiences, music, social practices and diversity: the idea of the album was born during a trip that Francesco Valente did in Brasil, Bolivia and Peru (the art cover is a photo of him in Uyuni, a place in Bolivia). So through this album (and the 5tet), he would like to suggest the parallel idea of a meeting of people from differents parts of the world sharing experiences, ideas, friendship, and music, here in Lisbon (their imaginary maloca where its happen this cosmopolitean encounter).
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