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Read the report and photos from the 16th Porta-Jazz festival in Portugal See Festivals above or link below.

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Zeena Parkins/Cecilia Lopez

Redshifts
Relative Pitch RPR 1249
Melding a collection of electro-acoustic textures, American Zeena Parkins playing electric and acoustic harp plus e-bow piano, and Argentinean Cecilia Lopez on synthesizers and custom-built RED speaker-wire instrument, create a variegated program where the sounds are often as unidentifiable as they are original. While only the duo was on stage during this live performance, the timbres heard go far beyond what’s expected from the instruments involved. At various junctures tones that could come from a dedicated… Read More
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