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Mário Laginha Novo Trio
“Terra Seca” (“Dry Land”)
Mário Laginha – piano
Miguel Amaral – Portuguese guitar
Bernardo Moreira – double bass
We arrived in a land of few, a dry land. Such is the awe of music: one idea, one primal
abstraction, taking shape and evolving, growing, deepening its roots. The land is scorched
but not barren. The thought that we might be populating it pleases me.
Mário Laginha
In this new trio, Mário Laginha is joined by the double bass of Bernardo Moreira and the
Portuguese guitar of Miguel Amaral. The ensemble is fresh new but the real innovation here is
the music itself, which has just been recorded in the album named “Terra Seca” (“Dry
Land”).
The combination of piano, Portuguese guitar and double bass goes well beyond the prevailing
shades cast by each one of them. It clearly breaks away from Fado, as the Portuguese guitar
reaches far distant and richer universes.
Jazz could very well be a neighboring territory, its underlying freedom is visible, but Jazz
appears to be an insufficient concept to define a kind of music that at times makes this
ensemble sound like a small chamber orchestra drifting between the modern and the classic.
It is fair to say that imagination has released each of these instruments from their earthly
duties and propelled them into a new musical universe. A new trio is born: Novo Trio.