feld 005@c & Vitor Joaquim

"de - tour"

@c (Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela) and Vitor Joaquim have been collaborating regularly for a few years in different settings like trios or larger improvisational ensembles (as the ongoing project Naja Orchestra). Along the way @c started the Cronica label and Vitor has been one of the first musicians they released.

By 2005, we planned a tour in Germany, during which we always performed two acts and sometimes merged for a third (occasionally adding a fourth collaborator as in Koeln or Stuttgart). This was an ideal setup for free improvisation. In Frankfurt, Bernhard presented us his label and his interest in collaborating with us. After having Vitor's participation in two of the @c releases by then, we thought it was the time to produce a full-length collaboration between @c and Vitor Joaquim and upon returning to the studio, we started working on the recordings of those sessions in Germany (and one is Lisbon, the previous year), using them as the prime matter for building this CD."

De-tour: is not composed by, but rather composed from live recordings. Not being an exact documentation of the performances in Germany, it is born of those, following what has become our modus operandi: excerpts of variable length were extracted from the recordings and recomposed through digital processing, editing and collage. Therefore, these tracks are not improvisations anymore, but their improvisational genesis is still present over the entire CD. A CD that is not "live" but much more of a concrete composition.