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Through the years, this weblog has repeatedly praised the music of Portuguese trumpeter Sei Miguel, whose enjoying and compositions/improvisations all have a simple to recognise high quality. His sound is filled with deep melancholy, open-textured and weak, like intimate conversations with long-time associates. There isn’t any must hurry, fairly on the contrary, sounds and songs want their time to develop, even when that’s already too sturdy a phrase, as if the one second of the sonic dialog is simply prolonged, like there’s additionally no have to be loud or chaotic, ensuing on this mild, well-paced and pleasant ambiance. His trumpet-playing at all times stays inside the identical slender register, and produces gliding and bending tones gently, filled with refined feelings of constrained energy and unhappiness, just like the human voice, with phrases typically ending in a rising pitch, like asking a query, additional encouraging the dialogue or trialogue. His music is sort of a private free jazzy model of the blues, constructed round recognisable buildings, at first sight sounding at all times the identical, however getting their distinctive high quality within the sensitivity and emotional energy of the supply.
As he writes himself: “My items, kind of bold, are on the brink, the sting: between what I feel I do know and what I feel I ignore. Visions. Tributes. And, after all, additionally a method to spotlight the expertise of musicians I’m grateful to work with.“
Sei Miguel – The Authentic Drum (Clear Feed, 2023)
“The Authentic Drum” consists of small ensemble items, every time with Miguel on trumpet and his very long time musical companion Fala Mariam on alto trombone, whose tonal spectrum and sensitivity are a beautiful match to the trumpeter’s.
Sei Miguel has an extremely nice ear for sonic preparations, for a way even uncommon – and typically additionally contrasting – devices could make his musical imaginative and prescient work. My guess is that he has a really sturdy relationship with the musicians who play these devices.
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Sei Miguel Unit Core – Street Music (Clear Feed, 2023)
“Unit Core” consists of Sei Miguel on pocket trumpet, Fala Mariam on alto trombone, and Bruno Silva on electrical guitar. Pedro Castello Lopes joins on triangle (observe 2), clave (observe 3), pandeiro (observe 4), and kalengo (a speaking drum, also called ‘bitin obonu’ (observe 8).
As Miguel writes: “The trios or quartets I’ve been showcasing my work on the street, for a few years now, present probably the most refined examples of my writing; typically easy tunes, typically a radically simplified model of bigger items within the orchestration idea. These are, in truth, my Jazz Requirements. My life has developed round them, and nonetheless does”.
The music has its typical intimate conversationist mode, just a little unhappy, just a little mournful, performed with care and precision. The percussion by Pedro Castello Lopes in completely minimal, accentuating the sober and light-textured nature of the sound and joing the dialog slightly than creating rhythm. Bruno Silva’s guitar is nothing lower than beautiful: calm, sparse, elegant and performed with a number of open house between the totally different notes or arpeggios.
It is a stay recording, with performances recorded between 2016 and 2021, in numerous places in Portual. Miguel typically offers introductions to his compositions/improvisations in Portuguese, and never at all times very audible. I don’t know what he is saying, nevertheless it exhibits the significance he offers to the interplay with the viewers. Fortunately the keenness of a clapping viewers can be stored, which supplies the music an much more human high quality. (The one draw back is that the massive viewers for some items in the beginning change into small audiences close to the tip, giving the impression that many listeners left the room, which is after all not the case).
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It is exhausting to say which of each albums will get my desire. I like Sei Miguel’s strategy to music, his sense of house and ensemble interplay, his feeling and spirituality. I can solely suggest to take a look at each albums.
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