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Talagbusao

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Bandcamp

2024

Talagbusao is an improvised music quartet hailing from a crossing between Copenhagen and Lisbon, with João Carreiro, João Gato, Margaux Oswald and João Valinho

The quartet’s music reflects an equilibrium between an animalistic energy presented through volatile rhytmic mantras and the pointillistic attention to detail of partial manipulation through extended techniques

…the four musicians open up clearings between themselves, they seem to be continually expanding their shared radius of actionthere is also something unstoppable and dark about the quartet’s music, which is determined to avoid all the traps of the improvised music tradition. In each Talagbusao theme, there is an overflowing creativity, a conversation of many voices filled with empathy

Gonçalo Frota (Público)

The music we hear in “Talagbusao” reveals great attention to timbral and sonic detail… just says what matters, without the fat.

António Branco (Jazz.pt)

The basis for this freely improvising quartet is certainly post-jazz, but there are also traces of persistent chamber music. Each of the artists contributes a lot to the whole picture, each is able to surprise with both a dramatic idea and the sound of the instrument.

Andrzej Nowak (Spontaneuous Music Tribune)