Demian Cabaud’s Quartet was an ensemble initially conceived to play two concerts in Lisbon and Oporto (Culturgest and Porta-Jazz) and for which Demian chose some long-time collaborators like André Fernandes and Gonçalo Marques, as well as the veteran Jeff Williams, the group's «shaman», a long career drummer who played with some of the great names of Jazz. This group played mostly Demian’s and also the other musicians’ original music. It was characterized, like many other groups he formed, by an ongoing search and a sense of risk without completely losing sight of the notions of melody and rhythm while maintaining a link with the improvised music history.
Gonçalo Marques is a Jazz trumpet player who also teaches at Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon and at the Hot Clube Jazz School. He has three CDs out in his own name, the latest being «Canção do Homem Simples» recorded for the label «Robalo» that he started with Demian Cabaud. Other recent editions as a sideman include LUME's «Xabregas 10», «Dança dos Pássaros» by the orquestra de Jazz do Hot Clube and Jeff Williams’s «Lifelike». He is very much involved in the teaching of jazz to youngsters, namely through the Hot Clube's Jazz school workshop, meant for children between 10 and 14 years old, of which he is the pedagogical director. He curates Jazz at the cafe Tati in Lisbon and he also runs the Sunday Jam Session there. He did some forays into other performative arts such as theatre (for instance in the play «Ricardo III» directed by Tónan Quito) and more recently in contemporary dance (in the play «As Bacantes» choreographed by Marlene Monteiro Freitas).
Born in Swaziland, Yaw Tembe has been living in Portugal for several years. He participates actively in a large variety of artistic projects (from music and plastic arts to dance) in collaboration with musicians such as GUME, Zarabatana, Norberto Lobo, Joshua Abrams, Orphy Robinson Evan Parker, Hieroglyphic Being, Marlene Freitas and Madalena Vitorino. His work is characterized by the exploration of the Ephemeral and the Fragile in a process that crosses the various areas where it is articulated. As a trumpeter, he developed a work based on a research of the timbral possibilities of his instrument through acoustic resources such as the modification of mutes and trumpets and in the implementation of electronic processes, deriving around influences by artists like Jon Hassel, Bill Dixon, Axel Dorner, Pierre Bastien and Toshinori Kondo.
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