MIA

  • Live 2016 – Ensemble MIA

    Live 2016 – Ensemble MIA

    Ensemble #1 – Conducted by Mia Zabelka: Paulo Silva – guitar Luiz Rocha, Noel Taylor – clarinet Alvaro Rosso, João Madeira – double bass Bruno Gonçalves, Cortez-Lamont III, Fernando Guiomar – electric guitar Paulo Curado – flute Carlos Canão – gong Pedro Castello Lopes – percussion Silvia Corda – piano Maria do Mar, Sarah Claman…

  • MIA 2017 by Jazz.pt

    MIA 2017 MIA 2017 MIA 2017-Encontro de Música Improvisada de Atouguia da Baleia, the 8th edition of the festival, is gathering about 80 musicians of 16 countries. It happens annually at a tiny little village called Atouguia da Baleia in Portugal. Rui Eduardo Paes from Jazz.pt explains it very well here: Jazz.pt | Breves |…

  • Poema de Luiz

    by Rita Draper Frazão Writen/draw for my birthday, during MIA 2016 ❤️

  • Post-MIA Jam Session at Lisbon

    Keeping the record… Inspired by last year’s Post-MIA jam, Carlo Mascolo, Maria do Mar and I proposed Desterro to repeat it once more. If we do it again for one or two more years, it will inevitably become a tradition: the Post-MIA Jam Session in Lisbon, featuring the MIA participants that were still around and…

  • MIA 2015 – Ensembles

    MIA 2015 – Ensembles

    MIA 2015 – Conducted Ensembles The complete recordings of the MIA 2015 Conducted Ensembles withAfonso Castanheira, Alvaro Rosso, Carlos Canão, Dario Nitti, Eduard Altaba, Francisco Andrade, François Choiselat, João Godinho, Laura Marques, Luis Fernandes, Luis Guerreiro, Nuno Morão, Nuno Ribeiro, Paulo Duarte, Paulo Pimentel, Pedro Castello Lopes and João Pedro Viegas.

  • Orrù, Mar, Rocha – a Jazz.pt review

    A Jazz.pt review by Rui Eduardo Paes, himself a witness of the concert. (in Portuguese) Ponto escuta | Jazz.pt No Description One more review by Avant Music News, at the best of 2015 list by a Jazz Noise and a beautiful set of drawings by Rita Draper Frazão in which we are included. Buy it…

  • best of 2015 – a Jazz Noise

    best of 2015 This is the last post of 2015 and, with Orrù, Mar, Rocha – “Live at MIA 2015” (EndTitles) – we’re at the best of list compiled by Dave Foxall’s at A Jazz Noise. The Orrù, Mar, Rocha trio was born at MIA, a big festival/meeting of improvised music at a Atouguia da…

  • Avant Music News – Review

    The Orrù – Mar – Rocha release by EndTitles, reviewed by Avant Music News. AMN Reviews: Palimpsest Trio – Stanze [pyr168]; Orrù Mar Rocha – Live at MIA 2015 [Endtitles ET2] Improvisation can be, among other things, a kind of spontaneous composition. Two improvisational trios whose common element is Sardinian double bassist Adriano Orrù are…

  • Orrù Mar Rocha – Live at MIA 2015

    Orrù Mar Rocha – Live at MIA 2015

    Orrù Mar Rocha Trio, recorded live at MIA 2015 The trio was brought to life by Paulo Chagas, the curator and the commander-in-chief along with Fernando Simões, of MIA – a festival that takes place every May in Atouguia da Baleia, Portugal. He invited us to play at the old St. Joseph’s Church for the opening…