It was an incredible night where I was able to play VIBRA’s pieces but also an opportunity to play some of the songs that will be part of my next record. Your reaction was amazing. Thank you all! https://youtube.com/shorts/Ii-Mnp5wpSU?feature=share
Today I remember VIBRA recordings, the first lockdown the day after the last sound capture at Fundação Serralves and the following months, in a makeshift studio at home, courtesy of the first confinement. When we finally finished the record, we had to postpone the debut concert at Casa da Música twice, followed by another confinement with more tour dates canceled. As Allen Saunders remarkably wrote, ‘Life’s what happens while you’re
VIBRA was, in a way, a huge surprise: the name of JP Coimbra was familiar from other “movements”; the creator of Mesa was also a contributor to notable projects such as Três Tristes Tigres, Goldfinger or Bandemonio by Pedro Abrunhosa, but he advanced into new fields with his debut as a solo artist. JP Coimbra mixed musical genres with a vision closer to neo-classical and was inspired by emblematic spaces
No início do ano fui desafiado pela A Palavra a integrar a sua primeira colecção de Livros/CD. O conceito agradou-me bastante porque agrega Música e Escrita, as minhas duas grandes paixões.Reuni então um conjunto de textos a que juntei outros tantos e compus também a música sobre a qual o enorme João Reis entregou generosamente, voz e alma. É por isso com enorme alegria que vos informo que este “De
VIBRA is finally out to the World! It was written as a concept record rather than a random collection of pieces, with the objective of combine the plasticity of untreated public spaces and their inherent acoustic characteristics into the composition, the spaces becoming an extension of musical instruments. The reason for this was the idea that these locations, with their geometry and materials, would change the way we played the
