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    Elliott Levin - tenor saxophone, flute and voice
    Luís Lopes - electric guitar
    Hernani Faustino - double bass
    Gabriel Ferrandini - drums

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It Was Just One of Those Crazy Thursday Things... 05:31
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Veselka Returns 12:26
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Harry Up and Wait 11:29
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Transfigured Locrian Night 05:19
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Lis-Bow:Blow...Ahh! 09:08
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Today another good one from some familiar Portuguese avant jazz artists (familiar to me, and to you if you’ve read my blogs regularly anyway). The album is dubbed Lisbon Connection (Jacc Records).
On it is a quartet of very simpatico instrumental voices we’ve heard from a good deal, together in varying couplings and with others: there’s Elliot Levin, on tenor, flute and voice, an extroverted, impassioned reed proponent with plenty to say; Luis Lopes, an electric guitarist with an excellent sense of extended sound possibilities and an unpredictable sense of interesting line and cluster possibilities; Hernani Faustino, a bassist with a full arsenal of techniques, a rich tone and consistently good ideas; and Gabriel Ferrandini, an adventurous world-class drummer with a guaranteed ability to enhance any session he is on.
This is intricate, full-blown free interaction of the highest caliber, a counterpoint of sound color, energy and soulfulness, some free jazz exemplary of the lively Portuguese scene. There are spots for solo, duet, trio and full quartet, with some playfully effective expressionist poetry from Elliott.
If you do not know what’s going on in Portugal these days (and there is a lot) this is a very good example of the free jazz end of the spectrum. There are some new music improvisational players too, but you can find that elsewhere on these pages. Anyone who knows these artists will appreciate them in great form here. Or even if you don’t.
And so I do recommend this one to you. Sit back and let it unfold before your ears. Bravo! Grego Applegate Edwards

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released May 5, 2015

Elliott Levin - tenor saxophone, flute and voice
Luís Lopes - electric guitar
Hernani Faustino - double bass
Gabriel Ferrandini - drums

All Poetry by Elliott Levin
All Music by Elliott Levin, Luís Lopes, Hernani Faustino and Gabriel Ferrandini
Except 2 by Elliott Levin

Recorded May 31, 2012 by Pedro Magalhães at Golden Pony Studios Lisbon
Mixed and Mastered, February 2014 by Rodrigo Pinheiro
Produced by Hernani Faustino and Luís Lopes
Executive Producer by JACC Records
Design by MM.

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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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