Configured as an electroacoustic chamber nonet led by Ernesto Rodrigues on viola & crackle box, with two saxophones, bass clarinet, piano, electric guitar, double bass, electronics & percussion, in two live, highly concentrative and subtly detailed improvisations performed in 2023 at O’Culto da Ajuda, during Ciclo Indeterminação na Música do Séc. XXI. Squidco

The ear is suspended in the heart-stopping beauty João Gato’s soprano saxophone floats over the texture at 11:45, or the delicate shine of José Oliveira’s suspended cymbal two minutes later.

This concert disc by the nonet Suspensão is such an offering, the music conjuring a universe of soft hues and back-lit timbres at once murky and gently luminous.

Marc Medwin (Squidco)