Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes - Strata [Música]

At the end of a ten-year cycle, a broad and aggregating view of the works of Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes strengthens the understanding of their unique place in the Portuguese musical context — and beyond. It is worth recovering the different record steps that marked this first decade: Quest, Harmonies, At the still point of the turning world, Textures & Lines and There’s no knowing, one album after another profusely illuminated by the desire to do something new and different. In between, other composition missions for cinema, performing arts or television, proving the elasticity of a training that has a natural attraction to artistic challenges. Then, in a time of inevitable balance, Joana and Luís symbolically return to the initial moment of their collaboration, working with filmmaker Eduardo Brito, author of the Quest cover and the duo's first photographs, and Frederico Rompante, creator of everyone's light drawings. their shows. Inhabiting this space of dialogue between light and images, we will listen to Strata, the new work by Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes for piano, electronics and multiple layers of sounds collected from different parts of the globe.