DANÇAS OCULTAS - TARAB

TARAB . Danças Ocultas

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After the release of “Danças Ocultas” - 1996, “Ar” – 1998, “Travessa da Espera” – 2002 and “Pulsar” in 2004 Artur Fernandes, Filipe Cal, Filipe Ricardo and Francisco Miguel introduces us their most recent work, released in October 2009.

“Tarab” is the chosen title.

The concept Tarab is mainly used in the North of Africa and is based on the concept of a superior collective conscience attained in performance and shared among the artist and the audience.

After Pulsar (2004) and as a result of the intimacy with other instruments and voices, ascends Tarab; a comeback to the original ensemble, with a special focus on the expressive ability of the concertina and the emotive capacity of the Danças Ocultas music.

Danças Ocultas

Artur Fernandes 

Filipe Ricardo 

Filipe Cal 

Francisco Miguel

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DANÇAS OCULTAS

The diatonic accordion (named as ‘concertina’ in Portugal) is an instrument created in the first half of XIX century, later worked to perfection, by several European instrument makers and today it echoes memories coming from a different musical ambience: a time before the record and the radio inventios. But it continues being a ‘dream machine’ ready to invent possible futures and making senses.

Artur Fernandes, Filipe Cal, Filipe Ricardo and Francisco Miguel had a dream to look for and worked their musical performance skills meanwhile they studied the possibilities of taking this instrument away from folklore music ways, accepting what then was known as ” the concertina will”, but writing a new music for it. This was the time that led the band to its name and to its first record, Dancas Ocultas, with a reportory on which predominate Artur Fernandes compositions.

After that, came a adventuring time, less ingenuous and more artistic, resulting from the continuous contacts with other performers, from experiences on stage, from the first travels and partnerships, motivating the change of the group into a sharing creativity nucleus and leading to the recording of ” Ar” the second record which affirms the beginning of a self musical grammar and shows some technical innovations like the use of a specially built “bass concertina”.

Since then the band has been experiencing the links between that musical grammar and a more universal and trans-cultural view of the musical phenomenon as well as the contemporaneous cultural ways. This concept allowed the band to often perform within scenic arts, namely in Paulo Ribeiro choreographies for which the band composed original music , as well as the repertoire of Pulsar, its third record. Sound, rhythm and harmony between the past and the future, making sense, in a dialog with contemporary aesthetic.

Jorge P. Pires

TARAB

Danças Ocultas

1 - HÉPTIMO

2 - O DIABO

3 - LUZ AZUL

4 - FÁBULA 

5 – RUMOR

6 - TARAB 

7 – PULSÃO

8 – ABRIGO

9 - ESSE 

10 - ARAGEM 

Ref.: NUM 1187