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TALES OF SENSES

by Bruno Parrinha VINE LEAF

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TALE ONE 27:58
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TALE TWO 06:43
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3.
TALE THREE 10:59
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Tracks #1and #3 recorded February 4th, 2022 by Claudio Rêgo at SMUP, Parede, track #2 recorded June 26th 2022 by Joaquim Monte at Namouche studios, Lisbon.
Mixed by Luis Lopes, December 2022.
Mastered by David Zuchowski May 2023.

All music by VINE LEAF

Produced by Bruno Parrinha and Luis Lopes.
Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul.
Cover Art by Madalena Matoso.
Photo by Nuno Martins.
Design by Travassos



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Try listening to the first couple of bars of "Tale One," the almost half an hour long opening cut of Tales Of Senses, without being reminded of Paul Motian's influential trio with Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell. It's near impossible. On drums, João Valinho assumes a similar flowing style in the vein of Motian, with cymbals and toms crashing in accordance to the intensity of the interplay, as it swells and ebbs. Luís Lopes's guitar tone is certainly a bit drier than Frisell's, his lines less chordal, but, like Frisell, he pulls complementing melodic ideas out of thin air, constructing determined improvised counterpoint in the moment. On alto saxophone Bruno Parrinha will blow soft and wispy lines, as Lovano does on tenor, then in the next moment blow up in a fit of horn-scales and staccato squeals, responding to his accompanists like-minded instrumental rage.
Of course there are also plenty of differences between the two trios. Motian's signature compositional shapes are missing, for one. The circular melodies, minimalist but catchy and limited to a 2-bar motif, often constituting the entire foundation of a tune. In Vine Leaf's music—the name of the trio derives from the English translation of Bruno Parrinha's name—extensive forms, even freer of fixed melodic shapes, dominate. The avant-gardist spirit permeates the music heavily, revealed in dense explosions of frantic interplay, sometimes even in what sounds like a loss of control. But even then the musicians' pulse keeps it together; ideas, like shards of a fallen glass, shattered, yet flowing with natural symmetry. "Tale Two" is an especially unique display, as Lopes turns is guitar-fuzz/distortion-pedal to the max, with a gate cutting off the sustain, resulting in a harsh industrial sound. Even in the '80s Frisell rarely went this hard. Repeated spins reveal competent playing and exciting trio conversations on this accomplished recording.

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released July 17, 2023

Bruno Parrinha - Alto saxophone
Luis Lopes - Electric guitar
João Valinho - Drums

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Bruno Parrinha Lisbon, Portugal

Saxophonist and clarinetist. He studied solfeggio at the Academia de Amadores de Música. In 1988 he recorded "Songs against love and terrorism" with Sei Miguel. Since then he has dedicated himself to free improvisation participating in numerous formations and concerts with distinguished musicians such as Ernesto Rodrigues, Rodrigo Amado, Luis Lopes, Paulo Curado, Carlos Zíngaro among many others. ... more

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