TourGuide e Carlos Bica´s Azul feat. Jim Black + Frank Möbus CD "Things About"

18 - 28 OCTOBER 2012

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Carlos Bica´s Azul
feat. Jim Black + Frank Möbus




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Best Jazz CD of the year 2011
Jornal "O Expresso"

CD-Release 2011 Clean Feed
“Things About”

Download
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6220797/Carlos%20Bica%20%C2%B4s%20Azul%3B%20Things%20About.7z


Video “Believer”
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66078006/Believer%20-%20Carlos%20Bica%20%20AZUL.mp4



Festa  do Jazz do São Luiz

Carlos Bica & Azul probably gave one of the best concerts I attended this past year. There’s definitely a
trio on stage. The interplay between these three musicians is not so unusual, they already play for almost
two decades together. Carlos Bica, the colorful guitarist Frank Möbus and drummer Jim Black
demonstrate a song-based approach with finesse, energetic fills but always subtly dosed. We witnessed a
band that enjoys playing together. Frank Möbus’s well structured solos, Jim Black’s sometimes frantic,
then melodic playing, and Carlos Bica’s warm sound made us forget time.
Jos de Mol, Belgium



Carlos Bica´s Azu feat Jim Black + Frank Möbus (P/US/D)
“Things about”, Cleanfeed 2011


Carlos Bica...doublebass // Frank Möbus...e-Guitar // Jim Black...dr

Carlos Bica worked together with MARIA JOÃO and was the Portugese Jazz musician of the year in 1998. His current formation
AZUL is a slowly undulating musical flow with exceptional timbres and convincing improvisations.  At times, energetic culminations
rise from nowhere in the songs. Bica is a master in omitting time!! If there are black holes? in music, Carlos Bica is sure to be among the first
who discovers them.

Jazz with hypnotic power of suggestion!


18 – 28 October

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19 – 10 Perpignon/F, Jazzfestival
20 – 10 Avignon/F
21 – 10 Marseille/F
22 – 10 Eindhoven/NL
23 – 10 Marburg/D
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27 – 10 Winterthur/CH
28 – 10 Berlin/D





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Frank Möbus g
Jim Black dr

Carlos Bica & AZUL: “Things About”
The fifth album by Carlos Bica’s Azul, the double bassist and composer’s trio with the colourful guitarist Frank Möbus and the drummer extraordinaire Jim Black, is a brilliant new step of a singular project started in 1996. And singular because of the unusual mix of elements that, once more, we find in “Things About”: indie jazz fed by the energy and the unquiet pulse of rock, with song formats coming from pop and the lyrical, melancholic emotionality typical of the Portuguese folk music. This combination of ingredients explain the global success of this formula, and the new opus shows us that the project Azul has more to offer 15 years after their record debut. In each edition the band seems to reborn, and after “Believer”, from 2006, here are Bica, Möbus and Black again, with fresh ideas, a renovated drive and a deeper poetic feeling. Bravo!      

               
                - Clean Feed Records -

"Best portuguese album of 2011" -
"Things About" is the most recent and probably
the most perfect of Carlos Bica album's with his trio Azul."
jazz6por4

„fantastic CD“
Bert Noglik, Artist Director Jazzfestival Berlin

Best Jazz CD of the year 2011
Time Out Lisboa

       Top 10 Jazz CDs  2011

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older press releases

"... a master of clear, voicing bass-sounds ..."
Hessische-Niedersächsische Allgemeine


"Azul has a great spectrum – not at least because the musicians represent very different musical cultures thanks to their origins.
This results in an emotionally stamped searching for new sounds."
A Capital

"Each member of the trio is exciting as a soloist, accompanist and musical painter. Fusion sounds are locked out. Nevertheless
(or just because of that) the music sounds fresh, unused and – beautiful."
Zitty

"The musicians dare to leave open spaces – one of the most obvious strenghts of the trio. Southern lightness, highly energetic density,
humorous playfulness, dramatical heaviness – all that comes together for a stimulating palette of blue shades."
Jazzthetik

"The mixture of ironically cool rock guitar, differentiated jazz and subtle groove, and Portuguese, Sephardic and North African folk
elements creates a magical pull which gently pushes surprised stereotypes aside and develops an almost trance-like grooving ambiguity
from which it is increasingly difficult to escape the longer it lasts."
Jazzpodium



Live

"Bica’s often smooth melody line is regularly broken by the other two musicians: a simple but effective concept. The images which arise
in this way merge to a sort of sound track, only that the story behind it has a very uncertain ending. "Musically, he lets himself be inspired
by the songs of his childhood. Aimless longing and hymnist self pity characterise the metropolitan melancholic, whose songs Bica sings
on his bass."
Frankfurter Allgemeine





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