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Cajula 16:44
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Duende 06:33
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Cross Flow 20:55
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Frozen Time 03:18

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Three artists involved in the London scene since earliest youth, all witnesses and actors of the evolution of improvised music and avant-garde jazz. Marcio Mattos has actively frequented the open circle of this extraordinary music world contributing as a bassist and cellist to all of the most important exponents/groupings of improvised music. Vocalist Marilza Gouvea is one of those countless quality improvisers who remain a well-kept secret of this sprawling city. Likewise
saxophonist Adrian Northover appeared as a strong and important contributor to the scene.
In their trio, no individual voice is dominant and everyone fully assumes the freedom to improvise instantly. The only score consists simply of active listening to their comrades, and the art lies in their imagination to create in the present moment a sound, a musical counterpart, which distinguishes all from each other and brings them together simultaneously.
The volatile articulations of Adrian's soprano saxophone encircle, comment on and pursue the whispers, phonemes, playful utterances and limpid chants of Marilza. The timbre of her voice
expresses intangible feelings through her vocal variations and lends itself to admirable mutations of tone. As if an architect or a landscape designer, Marcio draws subtle bows and feverish
pizzicati in fiery cadences and wandering extemporizations, thus creating a fleeting center of gravity. The expressive flow of the wind instrument flies in space like a bird animated by the fluttered or murmured jolts of the singer's voice. The very agile articulation of her voice reveals its full extent by responding with superb expressive ease to the detached interjections of Northover, weaving a lacework of air projected onto shared space. The cellist expands the sounds of his instrument by using electronic effects incorporated into sensitive soundscapes.
The thread of collective improvisation crosses many forms, effects, energies, linked feelings, contiguous or intercallated without imprisioning a moment, an image, a coloring in its infinite
meanders. A sublime sensitivity is expressed, a dense empathy, a living metaphor for solidarity, desire, confidence, hope, deepest thoughts and most immediate fantasy. Wonderful!
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg

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released September 24, 2020

Marilza Gouvea (vocals)
Marcio Mattos (cello/electronics)
Adrian Northover (alto & soprano saxophone)

1-2 recorded at Red Hill studios, Mill Hill, by Ian Hill 14-05-20193-5 recorded live at Iklectik, London by St Austral Sound 17-10-2019
Mastered by St Austral Sound
All music by Gouvea/Northover/Mattos
Photo & cover design by A.Northover

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Adrian Northover London, UK

Adrian Northover is based in London, and plays alto and soprano saxophone, and is also involved in sound production.
He can currently be heard playing on the London club scene with a wide range of musicians, He has played at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Sound Symposium, Victoriaville, Leipzig Jazz Festival, Tallin Festival, Arkangel Jazz, Freedom Of The City, Bari Jazz and many others.
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