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Nuno Rebelo – electric guitar
Vasco Trilla – drums
Luiz Rocha – clarinets

and

Lata Ensemble:
Joan Bagés – electronics
Sebastian Vidal – electric guitar
João Braz – cello
Francesc Llompart – violin
Ivan Edwards – soprano saxophone
Luiz Rocha – clarinets

3rd Impro Jam @ Nocturna Discordia

Jam de Impro 3
This was Nocturna Discordia #56 and the 3rd Free Improvisation Jam Session.
Barcelona, 20 January 2016

The trio that opened the night was:
Patxi Valera – drums
Àlex Reviriego – double bass
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets

Then, once again the routine was:
1. pick a name out of a hat;
2. throw a four-sided dice to define if the musician is playing either solo, duo, trio or quartet;
3. back to the hat, pick the other names, if applied.

At the second round we were throwing 2 four-sided dice so that everyone could play once more.

Great music by the opening trio plus:
Ilona Schneider – voice
Pep Mula – drums
João Braz – cello
Pau Sola – cello
Teté Leguía – electric bass
Carlos Ródenas – electric bass
Carlo Mezzino – piano
Diego Caicedo – electric guitar
Olivier Jambois – electric guitar
El Pricto – alto sax
Don Malfon – alto sax
Miquel Jordá – sopranino sax
Tuna Pase – voice, flute and electronics

Here’s a record of the 1st and the 2nd Impro Jam @ Nocturna Discordia.

Nocturna Discordia #33

Nocturna Discordia #33

With:
El Pricto – alto sax;
Miquel Jordà – sopranino sax;
Christer Bothén – bass and contra bass clarinets
Luiz Rocha – bass clarinet
Vasco Trilla – drums

https://elenamarquezphoto.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/nocturna-discordia-33-prictojordabothenrochatrilla-soda-2015-07-08/

 

2nd Impro Jam @ Nocturna Discordia

2nd Impro Jam
2nd Impro Jam @ Nocturna Discordia

Barcelona – December 2015

Vasco Trilla – drums
Àlex Reviriego – double bass
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets

Here’s how it works:
1. pick a name out of a hat;
2. throw a four-sided dice to define if the musician is playing either solo, duo, trio or quartet;
3. back to the hat, pick the other names, if applied.

with:
Diego Caicedo – electric guitar
Pablo Galak – soprano sax
Miquel Jordá – sopranino sax
Pau Sola – cello
Sarah Claman – violin
Carlo Mezzino – piano
Ivan González – trumpet
Patxi Valera – drums
Owen Kilfeather – voice and electric guitar
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets
The Beast Himself – chance
Clara Lai – piano
Alba Tor – voice
Fernando Carrasco – guitar
Vasco Trilla – drums
Àlex Reviriego – double bass
Almudena Vega – flute

edit:
here’s a record of the 1st and the 3rd Impro Jam at Nocturna Discordia.

Nocturna Discordia #33 – Video

Nocturna Discordia #33 – at Soda Acústic – Barcelona

Here’s an excerpt of the Nocturna Discordia performance filmed and edited by Antoni Robert Gadea that features a special moment of the night, a clarinet trio with soprano, bass and contra-bass clarinets.

Christer Bothén – bass and contra-bass clarinets
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets
El Pricto – alto sax and clarinet
Miquel Jordá – sopranino sax
Vasco Trilla – drums

Clarinet Trio at Nocturna Discordia #33
foto by Roberto Dominguez

Review: Nocturna Discordia #33

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Review by Dave Foxall for Jazz Journal UK

Christer Bothén – bass and contra-bass clarinets
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets
El Pricto – alto sax and clarinet
Miquel Jordá – sopranino sax
Vasco Trilla – drums

One more amazing night of free improvisation at the Nocturna Discordia sessions in Barcelona, this one was the 33rd edition and we were lucky to have Christer Bothén and Miquel Jordá as guests. Smooth yet sharp music, we naturally led to short improvisations. Playing small – and sometimes miniature, pieces, changing the instrumentation on each of them made this session very dynamic and fun. we were also lucky enough to have Dave Foxall there to write his impressions about it for the Jazz Journal UK.

You can read the review here.

Nocturna Discordia #33
foto by Roberto Dominguez

Nocturna Discordia #33, 8th July 2015

Amazing concert at Nocturna Discordia #33.

We were lucky to have Miquel Jordá bringing Christer Bothén to Barcelona, to work on a project called Laboratorio del Silencio. Then, there they were, that 8th July 2015 , at Soda Acústic playing with Vasco Trilla and El Pricto at Nocturna Discordia #33.

I got there early to watch the concert when I was suddenly threatened to go back home and bring my clarinets. What I promptly did.

The quintet was:
Christer Bothén– bass and contrabass clarinets;
Miquel Jordá – sopranino saxophone;
El Pricto – clarinet and alto saxophone;
Vasco Trilla – drums; and me,
Luiz Rocha – soprano and bass clarinets.

Those nice phone photos were shot by Roberto Domínguez.

1st Impro Jam @ Nocturna Discordia

names for the random groups at the 1st Impro Jam - Nocturna Discordia #32
Nocturna Discordia – Names for the random groups

Impro Jam at Soda Acústic – Nocturna Discordia #32 – 1st July 2015

Discordian Records organizes Free Improvisation concerts every Wednesday at Soda and yesterday was the first jam session. The opening concert was a quartet composed by Ada Rave (ts), Nicolas Chientaroli (pn), Vasco Trilla (dr) and me, Luiz Rocha (cl).

Ada y Nico curate the Impro Jam in Amsterdan. Playing and sharing a house with them at a the Free Flow Festival in south Italy and joining some great jams in Portugal at MIA and Desterro made me feel the urge to see such a thing in Barcelona: a meeting place where free improvisers – with different backgrounds, concepts and experience, can share music and communicate.

Simple mechanism: for each performance we threw a 4 sided dice to define if the group was either a solo, a duo, a trio or a quartet; then we picked the names of the musicians out of a hat. The grand finale was El Pricto conducting an improvisation with all the musicians who wanted to join.

Will be repeated.

edit.
A big synchronicity… today (one day later) the pals from Sessions at Robadors are closing the season with a jam.