Rita Silva is a Portuguese composer and instrumentalist, currently studying at the Institute of Sonology in The Netherlands. playing her first show in Barreiro, bringing with her the most recent record “The Inflationary Epoch”, which follows her debut in 2021 “Studies Vol. I”.

Making use of improvisation with modular synthesizers and generative music techniques, Silva showcased in those first studies an approach that paid homage to pioneers like Suzanne Ciani, Laurie Spiegel or Delia Derbyshire – there’s even a track with her name to make the lineage clear; “The Inflationary Epoch” is even more assured and purposeful, assuming a grandiose and elevated ascent, through waterfalls of arpeggios in a fractal flux that mutates in a hypnotically and somewhat hallucinatory way, in a psychoacoustic cosmos where artists like Caterina Barbieri or Jessica Ekomane float, two massive names that we have had the pleasure to host in recent editions of OUT.FEST.

A trio of big names in improvised music and adventurous jazz, both national and international, uniting the double-bass of Hernâni Faustino and the piano of Rodrigo Pinheiro with the cello of Daniel Levin, acclaimed by Wire as “one of the most brilliant contemporary cello players”.

We can expect a language that responds, in real time, to the more lyrical inclinations of these three musicians, with the unpredictable and oblique lurches inherent in their own restlessness felt. Ultimately, a hypothesis of chamber music that unites jazz, classical and the unknown.

New encounter between Alex Zhang Hungtai(Mr. Dirty Beaches, who’s deserving of the ‘honorary Portuguese’ epithet) and our very best Gabriel Ferrandini and Pedro Sousa – one of the various iterations of this fruitful collaboration that has included various formations with more or less members (such as David Maranha or Júlia Reis, for example) and the various names that follow these groups (Ketú or Rahú, both names of records released by the Futuro Familiar label).

United by an expression that, being eminently percussive, is complemented by saxophone (from Pedro Sousa but also, increasingly so, Alex Zhang Hungtai), searching for, in each shared moment, an evocation of spirituality that can be found in the out-of-this-world jazz of the master Coltrane or so many other intrepid explorers and restless spirits of the 60s such as Ayler, Sanders or Joe Henderson - but that’s not where they want to arrive at, it’s from there that they depart into the unknown.

From Washington, USA, Blacks’ Myths are a duo composed of Warren Crudup III (drums) and Luke Stewart (bassist, who many might recognize from the sublime Irreversible Entanglements). Somewhere between free-jazz, post-hardcore and noise, the duo, who’ve released two records already, have blown up preconceived notions of African-American musical heritage, reflecting in an explosive way the tensions and the inevitable historical baggage of this community. An immense pleasure to host a show from this band on their first time in Portugal.

Inês Malheiro is a musician from Braga who dazzlingly emerged over the last year with the wonderful “Deusa Náusea” and “Liquify, Spread and Float”, records that reflect a vision that’s simultaneously consolidated and open, where all roads still seem possible in the multiple intersections between rock, glitch and jazz, and something that can still be considered a song, and a pop song at that. A fascinating mirror of the Era of everything-all-at-once, with all the good things it can entail, the Barreiro premiere from this promising artist is not to be missed.

Rare appearance (until now) from this duo that unites Leonor Arnaut – the youthful and supremely talented vocalist of classical and jazz backgrounds whose trajectory, despite her young age, has crossed paths with people like Norberto Lobo and Yaw Tembe – with Ricardo Martins, veteran (can be said at this point) drummer and multifaceted artist who, by gaining immortality so early on with Lobster, has been trailing a path under his own name for over a decade, one that grows increasingly more rich and diverse, between multiple configurations of solo drumming and collaborations with Bruxas/Cobras and Algumacena or joining legends like Pop Dell’Arte, between so many other possible examples.

Leonor and Ricardo released, in 2022, the intriguing and beautiful record “Breathing Waterline” composed of minimal resources: vocals, modular synthesizer, some percussion and processing all make one of the records most deserving of the “UFO” epithet over the last few years to come out of this country. The pleasures of Sound and discovery are here.

After the concert, there will be a DJ set from Vítor Domingos.

Sete anos (!) desde a primeira e revolucionária vinda do músico, explorador sonoro e pedagogo argentino Alan Courtis ao Barreiro – para trabalhar criativamente com mais de uma dezena de utentes da Associação NÓS – que entretanto já conhecemos como os “We2” e agora definitivamente como os “Heróis Indianos Romanos Africanos”, e três anos depois da última vinda (cujo maravilhoso concerto, em inícios de pandemia, está disponível na íntegra here) regressamos com o maior dos prazeres a este trabalho que se prova, ano após ano, como confirmação do poder transformador da música e a sua capacidade para promover a capacitação, a autonomia e a livre-expressão.

Coadjuvados pelos músicos Bernardo Álvares and Leonardo Bindilatti, Alan Courtis e os “Heróis” voltam a juntar-se para uma semana de criação que culmina numa nova apresentação ao vivo, na Biblioteca Municipal do Barreiro, onde, sobre a música a esperar, pouco se pode dizer – mais do que género ou estilo, é a personalidade de cada elemento e a identidade colectiva criada durante este workshop que certamente se fará ouvir; será seguro especular sobre poesia sonora, psicadelismo, free folk, hinos de futebol adaptados –  mas é escusado agarrar-mo-nos a rótulos e géneros quando a música será, acima de tudo e certamente, intensamente livre e inigualavelmente pessoal.

Está de regresso a Noite da Raposa, espaço de imersão e desafio de emergentes nas electrónicas e além: dois palcos na Sala Oficina da ADAO, concertos curtos e quase sem pausas que se vão revezando, noite para desencontros dos bons e arranque oficial de um ano (é quando um Homem quiser, também) que se quer feliz.

Esta Raposa cardinal Meia-Dúzia traz-nos, desta vez, o vale-tudo mágico das ZIMA, duo de Sara Zita Correia e Marta Ramos que vem encantando desde o seu trabalho na Bolsa de Criação OUT.RA em 2020; as explorações de guitarra ritual de ZARYA, artista multidisciplinar que tem feito de Lisboa a sua casa; a electrónica para combater “o aborrecimento de viver no campo” da caldense SUPPERMINER; os loops instrumentais swingados com alma do angolano OSEIAS; a exaltação do house e a ligação óbvia (?) entre Detroit, Chicago e o Barreiro (pista: fábricas e vento) pelas mãos de Mel das Peras e Thep aka THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MEL & THEP e, last but definitely not least, a violenta mas beatífica massagem harsh noise de SHIKABALA (que também é Aires e também é membro de Peak Bleak e Fashion Eternal).

5€ / 2,5€ sub-25

Mette Rasmussen, saxophone

Ingebrigt Håker Flaaten, bass

Olaf Olsen, drums

“Jazz you liked when you were a kid and jazz you did not know you liked”

A Danish saxophone player residing in Norway, Mette Rasmussen has been, for almost a decade now, a voice which perfectly expresses the rawness, power and fire of jazz in a field which is so often still defined by men. 

With a resume which clearly shows her ability to take on that almost exclusive field (she has collaborated with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Joe McPhee or Ken Vandermark), but also her capacity for making herself heard in diverse contexts (she has gone on tour solo opening for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, for instance), she makes her way to Barreiro for the first time with her new Trio North, accompanied by strong names in the Norwegian jazz scene, before presenting her music at Jazz no Parque at Fundação Serralves.

5€ / 2,5€ sub-25

Mette Rasmussen, saxophone

Ingebrigt Håker Flaaten, bass

Olaf Olsen, drums

“Jazz you liked when you were a kid and jazz you did not know you liked”

A Danish saxophone player residing in Norway, Mette Rasmussen has been, for almost a decade now, a voice which perfectly expresses the rawness, power and fire of jazz in a field which is so often still defined by men. 

With a resume which clearly shows her ability to take on that almost exclusive field (she has collaborated with, among others, Paul Flaherty, Chris Corsano, Joe McPhee or Ken Vandermark), but also her capacity for making herself heard in diverse contexts (she has gone on tour solo opening for Godspeed You! Black Emperor, for instance), she makes her way to Barreiro for the first time with her new Trio North, accompanied by strong names in the Norwegian jazz scene, before presenting her music at Jazz no Parque at Fundação Serralves.

A night where we celebrate the creativity within “Greater Barreiro”, with the presentation of the work developed by the recipients of the 2021 OUT.RA Local Creation Grant: George Silver (André Neves) and Puçanga (Vera Marques). 

In both cases, their work resulted in new music: For George Silver, this concert marks the release of his new album “Inocente Indecente”, edited on vinyl by Panama Papers. A dozen tracks here cross transcultural and transcontinental ground, between meditative moods, sometimes chill, sometimes restless electronica, synthpunk and esplanade languidness.

Já Puçanga traz consigo novo EP, "Impish", que é a síntese criativa de todo um processo de investigação desenvolvido ao longo de um ano, em torno da exploração vocal e sonora em vários ciclos de conversas e momentos coletivos realizados em diferentes espaços do Barreiro; dos materiais aí obtidos foi construída a nova Música que agora se estreia.