Luis Fernandes
There's no knowing
**300 copies** Starting with an open dialogue seems like a good way to approach a collaboration. Almost a decade ago, that’s how Joana Gama (piano) and Luís Fernandes (electronics) started to work together, and both quickly understood that it was an ideal moment to develop and explore new paths in their music. “There’s no knowing” is their fifth album, 50 minute piece in which the two artists' have a dialogue while interacting with the void and silence around them. The origin of this work explai…
Textures & Lines
"Textures & Lines" started as an invitation by Portuguese ensemble Drumming GP to work with the duo Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes. Joana's piano and Luís's electronics find new territories in a mix of subtle and raw use of percussions. In four pieces they defy the limits of classical contemporary music and create a landscape that evolves in each listening.Joana Gama - Piano, PercussionJoão Dias - PercussionJoão Miguel Braga Simões - PercussionLuis Fernandes - Electronics, PercussionMiquel Bernat -…
Seis Peças Sintetizadas
**120 copies** 2019 has been a tremendous year for Luís Fernandes, apart from his daily work as an Artistic Director of gnration and Semibreve Festival. He released his first solo album under his own name, Demora, on Lawrence English’s Room40 and had a song on the commemorative compilation of The Wire, The Wire Tapper 50. He also collaborated with Black Bombaim in the brilliant record W/ Jonathan Saldanha, Luís Fernandes & Pedro Augusto and has worked on a new piece with his longtime collaborato…
At The Still Point Of The Turning World
Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes's new offering At The Still Point Of The Turning World, borrows its title from T. S. Eliot's poem "Burnt Norton". It is a record of restless motion, lilting and pulsing with a sense of gentle determination. Born out of a period of mutual loss, the works carry a bittersweet sentiment. Bitter in the sense of loss; sweet in the sense of lingering memory and influences recognized of those departed. It is also a record that, like the poem from which it takes its title, m…