Tag: João Lobo

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'Where your attention is, that becomes lively' is just one of the quotes or aphorisms which David Lynch tends to fall back upon whenever he is asked to explain the nature of ideas or creativity or in his own inimitable helium-winged Midwestern way, the consuming happenstance of 'catching the big fish'. Lynch with his longtime collaborative partner Chrystabell are...

Antonina Nowacka's third solo album opens as though suspended between elements, with gossamer-thin oscillations and glimmering harp glissandos offset by a reedy ocarina which seems to defy wind speeds and barometric pressure, staying the course and keeping everything on an even keel. The song, which is titled 'Moth Spins', quivers between helium ascents and a precipitous crumpling, while droning...

The pianist Giovanni Guidi's musical partnership with the bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer João Lobo now stretches back more than a decade, with the frequent Enrico Rava collaborator emerging alongside the contrapuntal bass of Morgan and the soft-brushed percussion of Lobo on the 2013 album City of Broken Dreams, his first as a leader for ECM. Remaining on the label, his...