Name: Mon (solo) by filipe dias De (sitar)
Duration: 18 min 11 s
Description: filipe dias De (sitar), recorded by JM Vanguard, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal

played with 2 bows on vibraphone.

dedicated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in japan and to their family.

Cloud - (Acoustic Vibraphone Solo by Masasyoshi Fujita)

filipe dias De (sitar), recorded by JM Vanguard, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal

Mon (solo)

Pedro Andre (electro-acoustic processing), Jorg Maria Zeger (prepared guitar), filipe dias De (sitar, objects)

Awe at Ausland, Berlin - March 31, 2011

This a teaser with different extracts from the upcoming album "OU", by Bob Meanza and Filipe Dias De.

The CD is being released through Aut Records on 15.06.2015.

It's the music of an hypothetic new world, where machines have grown old like all other myths and traditions, and have simply become part of folklore. In this world it is normal that a laptop and a sitar meet by the river, and start jamming on ancient patterns.

This special sonic place is what the name OU refers to. A name with no precise meaning, a word that can recall different languages, even the distant calling of a Sicilian fisherman, which also resonates in the music.

The album is the result of an extensive improvised recording session, with live electronics applied on the prepared sitar of Dias De. Editing and recomposing this flowing material, Bob Meanza has produced the final album, as a journey into a possible sound folklore.

Meanza & De - >OU< - Album teaser

duo simourgh - e la nave va

People Tell Me

In 2006 Bob Meanza, together with fellow guitarist Andrea Faccioli, crafted a couple of cute musical things: instrumental sketches with a cinematic and descriptive attitude, all born from improvisation, then enriched with layers of electronics and finally gathered on this album. 

He named the compilation 'SUPPER', just to be not too serious. In fact he doesn't exactly know why 'SUPPER'. Certainly not because he's good at cooking. But while some songs already had pretentious titles, 'SUPPER' sounded simple and frank. So, Supper's ready!

01 Ognimod

Sebastião Ruivo, aos 5 anos, foi proibido de tocar piano, instrumento que amava, porque se recusava a ler as pautas. Sentava-se e tocava. A sua desobediência levou a um castigo severo do pai: que nunca mais poderia voltar a tocar piano. 

Em 2011, ano em que faleceu de doença prolongada, foi levado por um amigo a um pequeno estúdio em Berlim (onde residia como sem-abrigo) para voltar a tocar. O amigo gravou num gravador rasco. 

E no final da improvisação, Sebastião disse: "Não percebo com alguém pode dizer que não sabe tocar um piano. Até um bebé faz barulho com isto. O ensino da música está mesmo todo fodido: traumatiza, não liberta."

Desobediencia Infantil 1

filipe dias De, born in Coimbra (Portugal) at some point, was lost in Asia for a while, where he tried unsuccessfully to learn sitar and gender wayang. Moved to Berlin because someone told him that it was cool and there he lived for way too long. Spent some months in Rio de Janeiro where he met Maracatu. And now he lives in Montemor-o-Novo, without knowing why, enjoying the unexpected.

Mon (solo)

filipe dias De (sitar)

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