Platform For Experimental Music And Performance Arts. Porto, Portugal.

SOOPA is a proteiform, multicephalous, art and music platform, a sound & visual laboratory with headquarters in Porto, Portugal.

Home to many groups and projects, who exist in a state of great porosity, SOOPA is a multifaceted cosmos working in the fields of: home-made science fiction, fabricated traditional cultures, ruins of hip hop, inner station jungle, Interception Dub, radio magnetic animism, sub bass telurics, Jazz trash and Spectral Choir. Featuring projects like HHY & The Macumbas, U.S.S., and many more.

SOOPA is oriented around the axis of Jonathan Saldanha and Filipe Silva.

Francesco Bigoni – tenor sax, clarinet

Born in 1982, Francesco has been active on the Italian scene since his early twenties, before relocating to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. After an irregular education, he graduated from the Soloist class at the Rhytmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen in 2012. He shared the stage with prominent musicians as Enrico Rava, Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Battaglia, Greg Cohen and Jim Black. He has been a founding member of the Italian artist collective/record label El Gallo Rojo, and is currently part of Danish ILK, appearing in over forty albums and touring extensively in many different countries. As a passionate and multifaceted wind instrumentalist and composer, Francesco pursues sound from all sides: he holds a degree in electrical engineering and is active in the field of electroacoustics and interaction design. Francesco also co-leads On Dog (with Piero Bittolo Bon, Beppe Scardino, Mark Solborg and Marc Lohr) and Crisco 3 (with Piero Bittolo Bon and Beppe Scardino); he is featured as a sideman in a number of projects led by Zeno De Rossi, Francesco Diodati, Maria Faust, Morten Pedersen, Danilo Gallo a.o.

CONTACTS: 
francescobigoni(at)gmail.com
http://francesco.bigoni.dk

LAMA "ONEIROS" Clean Feed 2011 
Susana Santos Silva - trumpet/electronics
Gonçalo Almeida - bass/loops/effects
Greg Smith - drums

Fall 2008: Bassist/composer Gonçalo Almeida hooks up with drummer Greg Smith and trumpeter Susana Silva. They combine their talent and experience to make LAMA. The core of LAMA's sound is acoustic jazz, but they also use pre-recorded samples and electronica as a springboard for their improvisations. The result is an adventurous and rich soundscape... jazz meets film!

Based in Dublin, with partners right across Europe, 12 Points showcases young, creative and ambitious artists in jazz and related music from all over Europe.

12 Points Festival alternates between Dublin and other European cities, next in Portugal in February 2012.
 www.12points.ie

On Soundcloud we have Radio 12 Points - a streaming radio podcast featuring great music from interesting European artists that have come to our attention through 12 Points


father of two, bass player & amateur runner
based in Brussels

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