New encounter between Alex Zhang Hungtai (Mr. Dirty Beaches, who’s deserving of the ‘honorary Portuguese’ epithet) and our very best Gabriel Ferrandini and Pedro Alves Sousa - one of the various iterations of this fruitful collaboration that has included various formations with more or less members (such as David Maranha or Júlia Reis, for example) and the various names that follow these groups (Ketú or Rahú, both names of records released by the Futuro Familiar label).
United by an expression that, being eminently percussive, is complemented by saxophone (from Pedro Sousa but also, increasingly so, Alex Zhang Hungtai), searching for, in each shared moment, an evocation of spirituality that can be found in the out-of-this-world jazz of the master Coltrane or so many other intrepid explorers and restless spirits of the 60s such as Ayler, Sanders or Joe Henderson - but that’s not where they want to arrive at, it’s from there that they depart into the unknown.
