"Sequência do celebrado “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Guitars?”. Mesmo conceito de disco duplo em que Vítor Rua toca sozinho, no primeiro, e com Hernâni Faustino, Luís San Payo, Manuel Guimarães, Nuno Reis e Paulo Galão, no segundo. “When Better…” é a segunda parte de um tríptico anunciado por Rua, praticando o que ele designa como “meta-improvisação” que resulta, de facto, em composições. Aceitando a origem da improvisação moderna nas correntes geradas pela chamada música contemporânea e pelo free jazz, Vítor Rua mostra uma vez mais como parece fácil abordar géneros diferentes, controlando a mão livre para que seja possível estruturar o acaso. Ainda assim, sobre a ideia de estruturação, ele acaba por colocar alguma responsabilidade em Deus: “Probably Composed By God”, a quinta faixa em cada um dos CDs, parece admitir o que muitos músicos reconhecem sem problema. Certos impulsos criativos surgem de além, de algures, de fora, e passam pelo músico. A riqueza dos timbres nas várias guitarras utilizadas por Rua gera suficiente variedade, e essa variedade é, digamos assim, apanhada em movimento pelos instrumentos adicionais que se juntam no segundo CD. Jazz sem o ser." (FLUR)
Podem escutar aqui o CD 2 inteiro (15 temas) intitulado "When Better Isn´t Quite Good Enough" dos Vítor Rua & The Metaphysical Angels que acaba de ser editado pela ReR Megacorp de Chris Cutler!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUMraUiCM-g&list=PLx4Vi5TPrPKNmGoYqWDe1sfhQgy0wlrSt&index=1
Vítor Rua (b. 1961) began his career in the late seventies with a series of interventions that changed the face of Portuguese pop/rock.
In 1982, formed with Jorge Lima Barreto the duo Telectu.
In 1987, in an act of autodidactic determination, he devoted himself to the study of contemporary musical notation.
His work is characterised by a variegated, embryonic post-modernism and an empiricist rejection of cultural confines, and reflects a transition from structured improvisation to strict composition.
The multiple intention of his work is therefore an aesthetic and kaleidoscopic propaedeutic about the situationism of post-modern music - a proposition for a new musical subjectivism.
In the course of his work as an improviser, he has played with leading figures in the world of improvisation (Jorge Lima Barreto, Chris Cutler, Elliott Sharp, Jac Berrocal, Carlos Zíngaro, Jean Sarbib, Evan Parker, Paul Lytton, Eddie Prévost, Louis Sclavis, Sunny Murray, Ikue Mori, Paul Rutherford, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Barry Altschul, Gerry Hemingway and Daniel Kientzy).
His music has been played by around the world by virtuosos interpreters like Daniel Kientzy, John Tilbury, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Ensemble QTR (Peter Bowman and Kathryn Bennetts), Edwin Prevóst, Frank Abbinanti, OrchestrUtopica, Remix Ensemble, Peter Rundle, Bernini Quartet, etc. He also work for Dance, Theatre, Film, Video, Poetry, Performance.
He is an ethnomusicologist and the primordial interest of his investigation is “Sound”, that is the theme of is P.H.D..
Rui Eduardo Pais, 2017
CD1: “Do Androids Dream of Electric
Guitars?"
Vítor Rua: all guitars (classical Ramirez
guitar and Fender Squire guitar)
1. THE AMAZING WORM (6:40)
2. FRIENDLY FORMANTS (5:44)
3. ROULOTTE (7:55)
4. FLAMENCO IS DEAD (5:29)
5. SUBLIMINAL SIGNS OF HUMOR (4:51)
6. FUGUE IN FUCK MAJOR (5:51)
7. DELEUZE VERSUS TARZAN (5:07)
8. PREPARED ONION WITH OLIVE GLUE (3:40)
9. DESCENDING STAIRS WITH DUCHAMP (3:42)
10. DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC GUITARS?
(4:57)
CD2: “Do Androids Dream of Electric
Bands?"
Vítor Rua and The Metaphysical Angels
Vítor Rua: guitars, composer
Hernâni faustino: Bass
Luís San Payo: drums
Manuel Guimarães: piano
Nuno Reis: trumpet
Paulo Galão: clarinets
1. THE AMAZING WORM (6:44)
2. FRIENDLY FORMANTS (6:00)
3. ROULOTTE (7:57)
4. FLAMENCO IS DEAD (5:32)
5. SUBLIMINAL SIGNS OF HUMOR (4:50)
6. FUGUE IN FUCK MAJOR (5:57)
7. DELEUZE VERSUS TARZAN (5:08)
8. PREPARED ONION WITH OLIVE GLUE (3:38)
9. DESCENDING STAIRS WITH DUCHAMP (3:51)
10. DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC GUITARS?
(4:58)
All compositions by Vítor Rua (Copyright:
Vítor Rua 2016)
Recorded by Vítor Rua (cd1) at Asoka Miau
Studio and António Duarte at Dim Sum Studio (cd2)
O meu CD mais vendido: Tributos Musicais (de Jimi Hendrix a Klaus Nomi, de Amy Winehouse à Madonna, Dos Beatles aos Beach Boys, de Tim Buckley a Tom Jobin, Kraftwerk, Philip Glass, Prince, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Nico e muitos mais... Podem escutar o cd no meu comentário a este post! PODEM COMPRAR AQUI, NA AMAZON, GOOGLE PLAY OU NAPSTER! https://itunes.apple.com/br/album/documentary-musical-tributes/id1166273832
