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released March 2, 2014

Clocks and Clouds is a co-operative quartet from Lisbon, consisting of trumpeter Luis Vicente, pianist Rodrigo Pinheiro, bassist Hernani Faustino and drummer Marco Franco. Likely Pinheiro and Faustino are better known outside Portugal for their recordings in Red Trio, whether in its fundamental form with drummer Gabriel Ferrandini or with the addition of such guests as John Butcher or Nate Wooley.

The name of the band comes from a composition by György Ligeti which in turn was taken from a distinction made by the philosopher Karl Popper (in a lecture called “Of Clouds and Clocks”) between “physical systems which, like gases, are highly irregular, disorderly, and more or less unpredictable … [and] … physical systems which are regular, orderly, and highly predictable in their behaviour. (K.R. Popper, Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973) p.207). It’s an appealing metaphor for the kind of music this quartet plays, which can be heard subjectively at the moving intersection of jazz and free improvisation. If a discourse as open as jazz seems an unlikely “clock,” its status as such depends on the number of “clock” elements it contains: its fundamental rhythmic and harmonic elements as well as a relatively narrow and particular set of timbres and instrumental functions, embedded here in at least the appearance of a “rhythm section with horn.”

The name seems to be an invitation to explore identities within the music, at once highlighting certain predictabilities of pitch and linearity as well as the openness of the exchange and the possibilities of new interactions. It’s a band that listens very closely to one another, often building their collective improvisations out of an assemblage of repeated short rhythmic phrases (clocks?) that overlap and create complex webs of sound (clouds) in which each voice maintains its individuality and its flexibility.

Trumpeter Vicente is a significant emerging talent, a brassy, forceful trumpeter with a quick mind who often provides a linear focus around which this music assembles itself, elsewhere using the trumpet to create an expressive column of air, referencing the muted timbres of the tradition and ricocheting across that inviting chaos of disparate clocks that Pinheiro, Faustino and Franco provide in such joyously playful abundance.
Stuart Broomer

Luís Vicente - trumpet
Rodrigo Pinheiro - piano
Hernani Faustino - double bass
Marco Franco - drums


All music by Luís Vicente, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Hernani Faustino and Marco Franco

Recorded 13th April 2013 at Namouche Studios, Lisbon by Joaquim Monte
Mixed By Rodrigo Pinheiro
Cover photo by Hernani Faustino
Band photo by Nuno Martins
Produced by Clocks and Clouds

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After establishing his name during the Eighties as an electric bassist in alternative rock bands, Hernani Faustino turned to avant-jazz and free improvised music and chose the double bass as his self-taught instrument. Two decades later of multiple interactions with Portuguese and international musicians, he’s now considered one of the most intense and solid bassists in the Portuguese scene. ... more

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