Track comissioned by Colectivo Casa Amarela as included in its fifth anniversary celebratory release:

https://casaamarela.bandcamp.com/album/island-fever


"Transparence Derived From The Presence Of Everything" by João Valinho was composed in reference to a visual piece by Mafalda Melim, inspired by Roni Horn's "Another Water". The title is a quote from the author.

Special thanks to Mafalda Melim and Bruno "Aires" Pereira.

Island Fever

Transparence Derived From The Presence Of Everything

“João Alegria is an essential figure in the Portuguese underground music scene. With a prolific career spanning over a decade, the guitarist – as he prefers to be called – embodies artistic commitment, resilience, and a deep devotion to crafting dark, experimental soundscapes. The numerous albums the Lisbon-based musician has released testify to a sonic vision akin to its object of study: unhurried and unperturbable, yet continuous and tempestuous."

— João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

“You paint for fame & status, I paint for freedom & awareness”, reads one of the vertical graffiti that Mr.Paradox Paradise painted on some Berlin building. Likewise, there is nothing in João Alegria’s art that is done with the intention of fame or likes. He spent more than a decade editing with recognition limited to the “community” of sound nomads. “I’ve been doing this for some time and I don’t have a very wide audience”, he admits. However, who knows, knows. And who knows, like it. João Alegria’s music is for connoisseurs. Perhaps that will always be the case.
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However, the unique contours of his art, combined with a stubborn aesthetic consistency and prolificacy, are the characteristics that simultaneously nest and vitalize it. The unconditional and obstinate way in which this “guitarist” – as he likes to be called – has created his work is a rare case of perseverance. His motivation? It’s not entirely explicit, but somewhere between the love of music and the physiological need to create lives the truth of João Alegria. If he lives because he breathes, he seems to make music because he has to live. One senses in his speech an inevitability of cathartic genesis that surreptitiously emerges between the lines like a figure wandering through the night.
João Alegria can also move through the shadows, but his music definitely points to the heavens, full of verticality” 

– João Morado (Beats for Peeps, Cosmofonia, Jazz.pt)

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Guilherme Rodrigues 

Guilherme Rodrigues is a cellist, improviser, sound explorer and composer from Lisboa, Portugal.

He was born in 1988 in Lisboa and started to learn cello and trumpet when he was seven at Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa and later in Conservatório Nacional de Música de Lisboa to study classical and music theory until his twenty-three. 

With an intuitive approach to improvisation and exploration of the timbres, 
using both classical and extensive techniques, his music is exciting, polyrhythmic and full of contrasts. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging for contemporary classical to free improvisation, has created music for dance, theater, radio, television, silent film. 

Has been following a professional career in music since 1997 and performs in concerts and workshops around Europe and Asia. Currently living in Berlin.

Currently member of Reanimation Orchestra and active as composer and improviser in the scene sharing the stage with musicians like Ernesto Rodrigues, Jean-luc Guionnet, Tristan Honsinger, Axel Doerner, Sei Miguel,, Harri Sjostrom, Michel Doneda, Tim Goldie, Jeffrey Morgan, Mia Dyberg, Klaus Kurvers, Gabriel Paiuk, Blaise Siwula, Gino Robair, Michael Thieke, Wade Matthews, Leonel Kaplan, Gabriel Paiuk, Tom Djll, Jassem Hindi, Tisha Mukarji, Masahiko Okura, Toshihiro Koike, Sharif Sehnaoui, Christine Abdelnour, Alexandre Bellenger, Carlos Zingaro, Nuno Rebelo, Nuno Torres, Naoto Yamagashi, Heddy Boubaker, Gerhard Uebele, Guillermo Torres, Tomas Gris, Carlos Santos, Bruno Parrinha, Miguel Ivo Cruz, Alberto Cirera, Nuno Morão, Mark Sanders, Raymond Macdonald, Neil Davidson, David Stachenas, Lisa Ullén, D'incise, Cyril Bondy, Miguel Mira, Rodrigo Amado, Abdul Moimême, Monsieur Trinité, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Matthias Bauer, Christian Wolfarth, Thanos Chrysakis, Kurt Liedwart, Miguel A. Garcia, Ilia Belorukov, Andrew Lafkas, Gao Jiafeng, Eric Wong, Johan Moir, Casey Moir, Magda Mayas, Matthias Muller, Alexander Frangenheim, Vasco Trilla, among others.

Released more than 40 albums of his own projects.

Discography: ...  from 2017 until now:
golden towers and electric frictions - CS 386 Lisbon 2017 Porto Covo - CS 418 Lisbon 2017 Ornithorhynchus anatinus - CS 416 Lisbon 2017 Urze - CS 426 Lisbon 2017 Temperature Difference - CS 420 Lisbon 2017 Sacred Noise - CS 422 Lisbon 2017 Plane, line segments, rays and some dissipations - CS 425 Lisbon 2017 Llop - CS 423 Lisbon 2017 Xenon - CS 430 Lisbon 2017 Blattwerk - CS 436 Lisbon 2017 L'Ennui - CS 446 Lisbon 2017 Infinite Series - CS 440 Lisbon 2017 Heptaphonies - CS 455 Lisbon 2017 Underwater Music - CS 450 Lisbon 2017 Micrographía - CS 477 Lisbon 2017 The Afterlife of Trees - CS 471 Lisbon 2017
As We Read Along... - CS 484 Lisbon 2017
Apteryx mantelli - CS 492 Lisbon 2017
Laura - CS 502 Lisbon 2018
Zweige - CS 497 Lisbon 2018
Spiric Sections - CS 498 Lisbon 2018
Synchronous Rotation- CS 499 Lisbon 2018
Crane Cries - CS 503 Lisbon 2018
Tellurium - CS 500 Lisbon 2018
Ma'adim Vallis - CS 494 Lisbon 2018
Hollow Wood - CS 487 Lisbon 2018
Meandros e Vertentes - CS 510 Lisbon 2018
0 minutes 0 seconds - CS 524 Lisbon 2018
Lithos - CS 526 Lisbon 2018
Barium - CS 519 Lisbon 2018
Jardin Carré - CS 533 Lisbon 2018
Sul - CS 534 Lisbon 2018
The distant sound within - CS 535 Lisbon 2018
RRR - CS 544 Lisbon 2018
We Still Have Bodies - CS 541 Lisbon 2018
Ignis Fatuus - CS 552 Lisbon 2018
dis/con/sent - CS 563 Lisbon 2018
Penedo - CS 516 Lisbon 2018
Eris - CS 558 Lisbon 2018
3 Phases (III) BLACK - CS 516 Lisbon 2018
Ljubljana - CS 558 Lisbon 2018
Hymn - CS 562 Lisbon 2018

joaovalinho@gmail.com

"the issues are a part of what is at this time. So naturally, as musicians we express whatever is. (...) music is an instrument - it can create the initial thought patterns that can create the change, and the thinking of the people."

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