The Selva • Canícula Rosa
Ricardo Jacinto | cello
Gonçalo Almeida | double bass
Nuno Morão | drums
In their second release, the Portuguese trio The Selva takes the trans-idiomatic concept explored on their previous album and charts new directions. This time, however, there is no crossing of classical atmospheres with African rhythmic movements. Instead, we encounter a seductive electroacoustic blend of folk-tinged melodies, abstract exercises and post-rock organisational cells, all the while maintaining the productive ambiguity between free jazz and free improvisation that forms the core of the trio’s musical identity.
On Canícula Rosa, this new facet is defined by minimalist, repetitive and groove-driven patterns that evoke, in our listening, resonances with artists such as Dawn of Midi, The Necks and, from the krautrock universe, Can.
Format: CD
Label: Clean Feed Records
Year: 2019
Edition: 1000 copies
Duration: 40:55
Recording: The Selva
Mixing: Nuno Fernandes – Great Dane Studios, Paço de Arcos
Mastering: Nuno Morão – FISGAstudio/ScratchBuilt, Lisbon
Production: The Selva and OSSO
Executive production: Pedro Costa at Trem Azul
Photography: Adriano Ferreira Borges / gnration
Artwork: Rita Thomaz
Design: Travassos
Price: 12€
