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Pedro Melo Alves
Приєднався 21 лют 2006
Pedro Melo Alves - Composer | Drummer from Portugal
Conundrum Vol. 1 - itself through disappearance (Clean Feed, 2024)
OUT NOW!
pedromeloalves.bandcamp.com/album/conundrum-vol-1-itself-through-disappearance
cleanfeed-records.com/
www.pedromeloalves.com/
Pedro Melo Alves - drums, percussion and electronics
João Barradas - accordion and MIDI accordion
Audrey Chen - voice and electronics
Ignaz Schick - turntables, sampler, electronics
Nuno Rebelo - electric guitar
Marta Warelis - piano
Violeta Garcia - cello and electronics
Jacqueline Kerrod - harp
Carlos Barreto - doublebass
Sara Serpa - voice
Rafael Toral - electronic and acoustic feedback, modified amplifier, electrode oscillator
Grilo - prepared piano
Gil Dionísio - voice and electronics
Ece Canlı - voice and electronics
Recorded by Kellzo (1, 3, 8, 9, 10) and Olga Matviychuk (2, 5, 6, 12, 13) live at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal and by João Bessa (4, 7, 11) at Conservatório de Música de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (12), Salão Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal (9) and Miramar Session, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (4).
Mixed by Pedro Melo Alves.
Mastered by Filipe Louro.
Photos by Vera Marmelo and Nuno Martins.
Videos by Maria Bicker.
Artwork by Pedro Melo Alves.
Design by Travassos.
Executive Production by Pedro Costa
Thanks to Marcos Silva for hosting the 2022/2023 Conundrum concerts at Galeria Zé dos Bois.
“Conundrum is one of my dreams of potentiality. And through it, a dream of community and ego dissolution.
It's the audio recording of a series of concerts that I have been organizing since 2019, where I have the pleasure to challenge some of the most inspiring and intriguing beings on my way - with whom I’ve never played before - for a live duo improvised dialogue. No past history, only the infinite silence of mysteries to be shattered on stage.
So I see it as a personal collection of precious minds which, at a certain point, inspired me with a vision of possibility - a gift of new things on the horizon for me to unblock, a shining feeling of reality in expansion. A promise - the glimpse of stepping out of my sphere. I don't want to know what's going to unfold on stage. Or who I am, for that matter. I want to feel the void of expectancy and the harsh flavour of self-reinvention. I want my certainties to lose their ground, and with it, hopefully new, unchained universes flourish. I want to conceive new drum setups, new electronic devices, new sonic resources, new dreams, new versions of myself.
So the curation of guests ended up following a logic that defied the conventions of contemporary improvised music. What does it mean to be a drummer, what are the new circuits of improvisation, what are these resources coming from jazz and underground experimentalism and how do they relate with past idioms, what's the role of electronics and live processing of sound in the modern musician speech, how to produce meaning through spontaneous sound dialogues, how to explore and combine all the multiple selves we have in us, ultimately leaving us in this zero state ("itself through disappearance")?
Since 2022 Conundrum was a resident series at the club Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon, happening every 2 months, recorded in audio and video.
Thank you from my core - João, Audrey, Ignaz, Nuno, Marta, Violeta, Jacqueline, Carlos, Sara, Rafael, Grilo, Gil, Ece and Odete - for your ongoing gift of possibility"
Pedro Melo Alves
22/05/2024
pedromeloalves.bandcamp.com/album/conundrum-vol-1-itself-through-disappearance
cleanfeed-records.com/
www.pedromeloalves.com/
Pedro Melo Alves - drums, percussion and electronics
João Barradas - accordion and MIDI accordion
Audrey Chen - voice and electronics
Ignaz Schick - turntables, sampler, electronics
Nuno Rebelo - electric guitar
Marta Warelis - piano
Violeta Garcia - cello and electronics
Jacqueline Kerrod - harp
Carlos Barreto - doublebass
Sara Serpa - voice
Rafael Toral - electronic and acoustic feedback, modified amplifier, electrode oscillator
Grilo - prepared piano
Gil Dionísio - voice and electronics
Ece Canlı - voice and electronics
Recorded by Kellzo (1, 3, 8, 9, 10) and Olga Matviychuk (2, 5, 6, 12, 13) live at Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, Portugal and by João Bessa (4, 7, 11) at Conservatório de Música de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (12), Salão Brazil, Coimbra, Portugal (9) and Miramar Session, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal (4).
Mixed by Pedro Melo Alves.
Mastered by Filipe Louro.
Photos by Vera Marmelo and Nuno Martins.
Videos by Maria Bicker.
Artwork by Pedro Melo Alves.
Design by Travassos.
Executive Production by Pedro Costa
Thanks to Marcos Silva for hosting the 2022/2023 Conundrum concerts at Galeria Zé dos Bois.
“Conundrum is one of my dreams of potentiality. And through it, a dream of community and ego dissolution.
It's the audio recording of a series of concerts that I have been organizing since 2019, where I have the pleasure to challenge some of the most inspiring and intriguing beings on my way - with whom I’ve never played before - for a live duo improvised dialogue. No past history, only the infinite silence of mysteries to be shattered on stage.
So I see it as a personal collection of precious minds which, at a certain point, inspired me with a vision of possibility - a gift of new things on the horizon for me to unblock, a shining feeling of reality in expansion. A promise - the glimpse of stepping out of my sphere. I don't want to know what's going to unfold on stage. Or who I am, for that matter. I want to feel the void of expectancy and the harsh flavour of self-reinvention. I want my certainties to lose their ground, and with it, hopefully new, unchained universes flourish. I want to conceive new drum setups, new electronic devices, new sonic resources, new dreams, new versions of myself.
So the curation of guests ended up following a logic that defied the conventions of contemporary improvised music. What does it mean to be a drummer, what are the new circuits of improvisation, what are these resources coming from jazz and underground experimentalism and how do they relate with past idioms, what's the role of electronics and live processing of sound in the modern musician speech, how to produce meaning through spontaneous sound dialogues, how to explore and combine all the multiple selves we have in us, ultimately leaving us in this zero state ("itself through disappearance")?
Since 2022 Conundrum was a resident series at the club Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon, happening every 2 months, recorded in audio and video.
Thank you from my core - João, Audrey, Ignaz, Nuno, Marta, Violeta, Jacqueline, Carlos, Sara, Rafael, Grilo, Gil, Ece and Odete - for your ongoing gift of possibility"
Pedro Melo Alves
22/05/2024
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Alma Tree (Moses / Trilla / Melo Alves) - Live at Festival Porta-Jazz 2024
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Full concert of Alma Tree ft. João Pedro Brandão, José Soares and Julius Gabriel at 14º Festival Porta-Jazz, on the release of "Sonic Alchemy Suprema" (Carimbo Porta-Jazz). ALMA TREE Ra Kalam Bob Moses - drums and percussion Vasco Trilla - drums and percussion Pedro Melo Alves - drums and percussion w/ guests: João Pedro Brandão - alto saxophone José Soares - alto saxophone Julius Gabriel - ten...
Alma Tree (Moses / Trilla / Melo Alves) - Sonic Alchemy Suprema (Carimbo Porta-Jazz)
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ALMA TREE "Sonic Alchemy Suprema" (Carimbo Porta-Jazz) Alma Tree are Ra Kalam Bob Moses, Vasco Trilla and Pedro Melo Alves. The three drummers, navigating the freest currents of jazz and improvised music, come together in a percussion trio, blending their strong personalities and unique resources in a performance of deep and unpredictable dialogues, infused with a strong spiritual character. Re...
Pedro Melo Alves' Omniae Large Ensemble - I - Ubi (Live at Guimarães Jazz)
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Live recording of Lumina (Clean Feed, 2021) I. UBI: ua-cam.com/video/waqZ0vVXvhM/v-deo.html II. PHELIA ua-cam.com/video/S1DaLeTLyOo/v-deo.html III. ONÍREA ua-cam.com/video/RTlmG7NEF9s/v-deo.html Live at Guimarães Jazz 2020 Pedro Carneiro - maestro Pedro Melo Alves - drums and composition José Diogo Martins - piano Mané Fernandes - guitar Pablo Patiño Moledo - doublebass Clara Saleiro - flutes J...
Pedro Melo Alves' Omniae Large Ensemble - II - Phelia (Live at Guimarães Jazz)
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Live recording of Lumina (Clean Feed, 2021) I. UBI: ua-cam.com/video/waqZ0vVXvhM/v-deo.html II. PHELIA ua-cam.com/video/S1DaLeTLyOo/v-deo.html III. ONÍREA ua-cam.com/video/RTlmG7NEF9s/v-deo.html Live at Guimarães Jazz 2020 Pedro Carneiro - maestro Pedro Melo Alves - drums and composition José Diogo Martins - piano Mané Fernandes - guitar Pablo Patiño Moledo - doublebass Clara Saleiro - flutes J...
Pedro Melo Alves' Omniae Large Ensemble - III - Onírea (Live at Guimarães Jazz)
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Live recording of Lumina (Clean Feed, 2021) I. UBI: ua-cam.com/video/waqZ0vVXvhM/v-deo.html II. PHELIA ua-cam.com/video/S1DaLeTLyOo/v-deo.html III. ONÍREA ua-cam.com/video/RTlmG7NEF9s/v-deo.html Live at Guimarães Jazz 2020 Pedro Carneiro - maestro Pedro Melo Alves - drums and composition José Diogo Martins - piano Mané Fernandes - guitar Pablo Patiño Moledo - doublebass Clara Saleiro - flutes J...
Pedro Melo Alves' Omniae Large Ensemble - Lumina (Clean Feed)
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Coming out October 15th on Clean Feed Once I wrote Omniae is the space of the whole. Shapeless whole, where the absence of lines is not able to contain any possibility. Beyond space and time, where the little norms of meaning fade away. Omniae Ensemble may be a glimpse of the whole. And now, the utopia has found its way to us. My Omniae Large Ensemble, and all its absence of lines, is available...
Pedro Carneiro & Pedro Melo Alves - Bad Company (Clean Feed)
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OUT IN 18 JUNE 2021 revelry, a touch of self-satisfaction restlessly in circles from a starless sky. A secret domain between retreat and return, a totally unexpected joy. From street to street, gross exaggeration, making a veritable religion. Pedro Carneiro, marimba with quarter tone extension Pedro Melo Alves, prepared drums Recorded and edited by Pedro Carneiro and Pedro Melo Alves at Orquest...
Pedro Melo Alves - Bedlam Liturgy
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"Bedlam Liturgy" is a solo percussion recording part of "De Porta Aberta" by Carimbo Porta-Jazz Label. 39 solo recordings, by the label musicians, were recorded during the first lockdown back in April. I contributed with a ritualesque rock called "Bedlam Liturgy". The full digital album is available at portajazz.com/discos.html for 10€. The money goes directly to the musicians and professionals...
Pedro Melo Alves - On Attack, Sustain and Crescendo For Nothing (Prepared Drums Studies)
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VI - On Attack, Sustain and Crescendo For Nothing The final chapter of this series, an improvisation on fixed and constrained gestures of crescendos, sustains, attacks and silences leading to a more contemplative and resonance based phrasing of drums, cymbals and gongs. I had in mind a lot of special sessions I played last year with classical contemporary musicians. But ultimately, just a medit...
Pedro Melo Alves - On Arpeggio Waves (Prepared Drums Studies)
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V - On Arpeggio Waves (Prepared Drums Studies) This improvisation features no preparation of the drumset but was generated by the idea of an arpeggiator in the synth world. So I guess it can be seen as the oddball of this series, even though coming from the same aesthetic origins. The soft mallets on the clear heads create a deep bass continuuous rumble that pushes the flux forward, along diffe...
Pedro Melo Alves - On An Unlikely Mechanism (Prepared Drums Studies)
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IV - On An Unlikely Mechanism (Prepared Drums Studies) This time, a short image of a sparse atmosphere, disturbed by the ignition of a gamelan-like mechanism. I'm using bells and objects with a small rubber as a central support which dampens some harmonics but still allows enough vibration for the bell to be amplified by the drums. It's the fourth of a series of 6 video sessions on some of my p...
IN IGMA (Clean Feed, 2020)
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IN IGMA • Aubrey Johnson voice • Beatriz Nunes voice • Mariana Dionísio voice • Eve Risser piano • Mark Dresser contrabass • Abdul Moimême electric guitar and objects • Pedro Melo Alves drums and percussion "High-pitched angelic voices straying amidst thunder rumbles, clattering stones, whipping branches, breaking wood, high-pitched angelic voices unfolding amongst rushing skies, latent lure ca...
Pedro Melo Alves - On Noise, Data and Feedback (Prepared Drums Studies)
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III - On Noise, Data and Feedback (Prepared Drums Studies) Since my first electroacoustic experimentations some years ago I've been interested in how to emulate that sound world through an acoustic approach. Every time I played with electronic musicians (in a non beat-driven context) it was generally clear that any type of traditional drumming language was not fit and that I needed both a more ...
Pedro Melo Alves - On Pendulums and Landscapes (Prepared Drums Studies)
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II - On Pendulums and Landscapes (Prepared Drums Studies) I've always felt captivated on how to portrait abstract storylines through timbre and texture frames. They usually require a strong multilayered approach that fragments the conception of the instrument. And you're suddenly not listening to an instrumentist playing its instrument anymore but enjoying a cinematographic vision unfolding. Th...
Pedro Melo Alves - On Metamorphic Shapes and Cycles (Prepared Drum Studies)
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Pedro Melo Alves - On Metamorphic Shapes and Cycles (Prepared Drum Studies)
Pedro Melo Alves - Prepared Drum Studies
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Pedro Melo Alves - Prepared Drum Studies
Hagen / Wallace / Gleditsch / Grossi / Melo Alves - Premio Internazionale Giorgio Gaslini
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Hagen / Wallace / Gleditsch / Grossi / Melo Alves - Premio Internazionale Giorgio Gaslini
Branco / Melo Alves - Improvisation #2 (Südtirol Jazzfestival 2019)
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Branco / Melo Alves - Improvisation #2 (Südtirol Jazzfestival 2019)
Branco / Melo Alves - Improvisation #1 (Südtirol Jazzfestival 2019)
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Branco / Melo Alves - Improvisation #1 (Südtirol Jazzfestival 2019)
Preto Mate (Ricardo Jacinto / Joana Guerra / Pedro Melo Alves)
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Preto Mate (Ricardo Jacinto / Joana Guerra / Pedro Melo Alves)
JUNGLE RED // Live music soundtrack
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JUNGLE RED // Live music soundtrack
Pedro Melo Alves' O (SOLO DRUMS / PERCUSSION / ELECTRONICS)
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Pedro Melo Alves' O (SOLO DRUMS / PERCUSSION / ELECTRONICS)
symph (José Diogo Martins | Hugo Antunes | Pedro Melo Alves)
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symph (José Diogo Martins | Hugo Antunes | Pedro Melo Alves)
Wow! 3 super musical folks!
And then some more!!!
listening and watching and enjoying this morning in Boston ..love the subtlety and shared power of the group
beautiful ... beautiful
Dear Pedro, it would be nice, if You could tell me, what kind of blue "tool" it ist, that You use at 1:51 ? Is it a kind of a vibrator? I´m going to play some gigs with the german krautrock band "Faust" and the sounds you make are very interesting for the kind of music we are playing! All the best Olaf
Wondering the same thing! Also what’s that squeaky thang around 6:00? ❤
Pedal attached to hanging metal sheet on his left. Right? Great stuff
1st vid and wow, this is amazing. I'd love if one day you might share your process of preparing your set or just general things you might think about when selecting your materials and their position. That bass sound you get is especially lovely bro.
Hey Christopher! Thanks for the feedback. There's indeed a lot to be said about those details as they're limitless. Analyzing the options I take usually generates even more options. I talked about it on some masterclasses I gave but there's nothing recorded. I'll try to organize some time for that in the next year, hopefully. One day you're in Portugal you can always visit my studio. All the best to you
😯👏👏👏👏
I saw this Ensemble in Lisbon, last year at Culturgest - performing this composition/ It was pretty Mind-blowing! Yes - this Pianist is absolutely Amazing, and also very sweet and humble. The whole thing was BRILLIANT! There is SO Much Incredible Music coming out of Portugal these days - especially in Lisbon & Porto. They NEVER tell you this in the Travel Videos, though - it's Always about the Food and Wine.... and the Beautiful Beaches!
Denso, visceral, complexo e imersivo. Muito importante a existência desse tipo de som completamente desprendido de qualquer padrão especifico ou gênero, ou seja, contemporâneo! Abraços do Brasil.
Great work, i like the research of sounds on the whole instrument and the addition of percussion , thanks for sharing !!
Holy shit this is amazing
Lovely!
Cara, muito rústico isso! Impressionante!
Wow!
Entrei pela capa e gostei do percursoM
incredible !
Mastermind!!
This is easily the coolest thing I've seen all day.
i love the textures
Go wild in the Jungle
Uh? What's this? Just sounds like noise to me.
Hello from Iowa USA! Great music, expertly executed!
They all run naked in the jungle.
Wow!
Isto é 'muita bom óh Pedro! Espero estar lá dia 1.