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Averse to any linearity, the Idiosyncratic Lu\u00eds Lopes, a musician connected to Jazz, improvised and experimental music, has been building his career, a simple and singular story, characterised by a unique voice, free of corsets, formal ties \u00a0or constraints and mannerisms regarding strict stilistical implications. He is an unfollower… experiments himself through paradoxes. Invokes teachings by following standards of subversion to any possibility of pre-established idea. Eminent self-subversion… Introspective timeless trance.<\/span><\/p>\n

He leads several groups that soon positioned him in the international scene:\u00a0Humanization<\/span>\u00a04tet<\/span> (with Portuguese sax player Rodrigo Amado and Texans Stefan and Aaron Gonzalez), Lisbon Berlin Trio (with Germans Christian Lillinger and Robert Landfermann), Guillotine (with french cellist Valentin Ceccaldi and drummer Andreas Wildhagen from Norway). Leads, guides and produces collectives such as the Lisbon 9 elements ensemble LFU \u2013 Lisbon Freedom Unit, the tentet Abyss Mirrors with musicians of various nationalities currently living in Lisbon. He is part of multinational bands of other international leaders such as Valentin Ceccaldi’s BonBon Flamme, with whom he currently tours throughout Europe. Then, he has his solo works, characterized by a totally experimental compositional attitude that can range from noise to the pianissimo of his love songs, each of these currents already with three albums released . Plus, he cherishes and privileges duo projects, examples are collaborations with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fred Lonberg-holm, Noel Akchot\u00e9, Julien Desprez and Jasper Stadhouders,<\/span><\/p>\n

Coming from a rock\/punk and blues background, while studying at local classic and rock schools, he began studying Jazz at Hot Club Portugal School and then was finalist at Escola de Jazz do Barreiro\/Lisbon. Then did studies with Saxophonist Joe Giardullo who opened for him the doors of modern jazz harmony complexity through the George Russell\u2019s \u201cLydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization\u201d, plunging Lopes into the world of improvised and experimental music, without disregard for his fascination with distorion and guitar feedbacks, expressed in different incursions into noise music<\/em>, while also canalizes energys towards projects where he can develop his composing abilities.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has released records on labels such as on Clean Feed, Shhpuma, Wide Ears, Creative Sources, Ayler Records, JACC, Subcontinental, Multiculty Project, Row Tonk, BMC, Cylinder, and on his own LPZ Records. This records were acclaimed in international press like Wire (Ingland), Citizen Jazz, Jazz Magazine and improjazz (France), Enola Magazine (Belgium), Downbeat, All About Jazz NY, Cadence Magazine, NY City Jazz Records, Signal to Noise, Point of Departure (U.S.), Toma Jazz (Spain), All about jazz Italy (Italy), Jazz’n’more\/blues roots (Germany), FreeForm FreeJazz (Brazil). <\/span><\/p>\n

Lopes has been a regular presence in stages such as Jazz em Agosto (Gulbenkian), Jazz ao Centro Coimbra, Portalegre Jazz Fest, Seixal Jazz, Sines em Jazz, Serralves em Festa, Jazz no Parque Serralves, Festival Rescaldo Culturgest, Pa\u00e7os Manuel Porto, Ljubljana Jazz Fest, Konfrontationen Fest Nickelsdorf Austria, Bezau Beatz Fest Austria, SudTirol Italy Jazz Festival,\u00a0 Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Jazzdor Berlin Strasbourg Dresden Festival, Instant Festival Ghent, BMC Budapest, Perpignan Jazzebre Fest, M\u00e9t\u00e9o Mulhouse Fest, Jazz \u00e0 l\u00e1 Villete Paris,\u00a0 Tricollectif Soir\u00e9 Tricot Fest Paris, Jazz or Jazz Fest Orleans, Clean Feed New York Fest, Clean Feed Chicago Fest, Clean Feed Col\u00f3nia Fest, Clean Feed Berlin Fest, Snug Harbor New Orleans, The Stone New York, HideOut Chicago, JazzFest Berlin, Exploratorium Berlin, Bimhuis and Occi Amesterdam, Klappfon Fest Basel, Win Zurich, H\u00e6rverk Oslo, Br\u00f6tz G\u00f6teborg, Entrepreneurs Museum Moscow, DOM Moscow, Saarbrucken Free Jazz Fest. Praha Free Jazz Fest, Suoni Per Il Popolo Fest Montreal, Artacts St Johann Tirol, among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n

In more recent times, Lopes has played and \/ or recorded with different artists connected to jazz and improvised music, such as Noel Akchot\u00e9, Christian Lillinger, Robert Landfermann, Marco Von Orelly, Marc Unternahrer, Adam Lane, Igal Foni, Floros Floridis, Joe Giardulo, Harvey Sorgen, Benjamin Duboc, Phill Niblock, Ernesto Rodrigues, Paulo Curado, Sei Miguel, Rodrigo Amado, Hern\u00e2ni Faustino, Gabriel Ferrandini, Rodrigo Pinheiro, Miguel Mira, Aaron Gonzalez, Stefan Gonzalez, Dennis Gonzalez, Elliot Levin, Alfred Hart, Daniel Levin, Reuben Radding, Daniel Carter, Jeb Bishop, Josh Abrams, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Samuel Blaser, Boris Hauf, Evan Parker, Olivier Benoit, Fred Lomberg-holm, Valentin Ceccaldi, Gon\u00e7alo Almeida, Ingebrigt Haker-flaten, Andreas Wildhagen, Stale Solberg, among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cHe tends to play on the outside and alternates between a dryly electric and a high impact straight tone. Beefheartian guitarists, Sharrock in his early period and Ulmer in his outer moments are touch points in describing his style, but only as rough approximation, for he has a distinct bag” \u00a0Grego Applegate Eduards \/\u00a0Cadence Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLuis Lopes \u00e8 ottimo compositore, chitarrista anomalo, gran assemblatore di talenti, solista maggiormente interessato al risultato complessivo piuttosto che a mettere in evidenza le proprie abilit\u00e0 o le singole voci.\u201d \u00a0Vincenso Roggero \/\u00a0<\/em>All About Jazz Italy<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“He slurs, he scurries, he stops in unexpected places to flail at a single note, and he plays waaaaaay behind the beat to create a most interesting kind of energy. Good stuff!” \u00a0Jason Bivins\u00a0\/ <\/em>Cadence Magazine<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“he remains very much his own man, and I love his idiosyncrasies, especially his weird habit of doing little rubbery spasms, like his guitar is spring loaded” \u00a0Jason Bivins \/\u00a0<\/em>Signal to Noise<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cm\u00fasica vigorosa, exaltante e que brota intensa, livre de amarras formais e malabarismos t\u00e9cnicos artisticamente in\u00f3cuos. Demarcando-se de padr\u00f5es seguidistas, mais preocupado em procurar ser verdadeiramente criativo do que em emular os \u00eddolos costumeiros\u201d \u00a0Ant\u00f3nio Branco \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span>jazz.pt<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cmuitos anotar\u00e3o o nome de Lu\u00eds Lopes na lista dos nomes a vigiar de perto\u201d \u00a0Jos\u00e9 Carlos Fernandes \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span>Time Out Lisboa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Portuguese guitarist Luis Lopes has tricks up his sleeve [\u2026] he is an adept player of noise and feedback (as opposed to simply a maker, Lopes is the rare guitarist who can use it quite tastefully)\u201d \u00a0<\/span>Kurt Gottschalk \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span>All About Jazz New<\/em> York<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em>l\u00edder cabal, un compositor destacable, un solista misterioso y, en definitiva, una nueva voz a tener en cuenta en el futuro\u201d \u00a0Yahv\u00e9 M. de la Cavada \/ <\/em>TomaJazz<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Lopes is a stylist and uses closed-hand tapping techniques while putting matters into overdrive via his cross boundary exercises. He merges free, jazz-rock with dynamic, hard-core experimentalism” \u00a0Glenn Astarita \/\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jazzreview\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLopes is about as far as one can get from a pyrotechnical guitarist, hanging back with muted, gritty lines and fields of delicate introspection\u201d \u00a0Clifford Allen \/<\/em><\/span><\/span>\u00a0All About Jazz NY<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“He’s a rather abstemious soloist after all, paying special attention to the correct placement of notes, not exactly longing for the sanitization of his sullied tone, which is a good thing in terms of originality” \u00a0Massimo Ricci<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Lu\u00eds Lopes is a Portuguese guitarist whose work is grounded in rock, funk and free jazz, but it\u2019s often his electronic conception of the instrument that comes to the fore, a knack for unlikely accompaniments that can include quiet noise and singing quarter-tones and solos that are marked by thoughtful construction and a reflective depth that can suggest the plaintive wail of a shakuhachi [\u2026] It\u2019s a century-long tradition of sonic experimentation that Lopes invokes, distinguishing himself from the majority of feedback guitarists by the constructivist patience of his work, his fondness for the infinitesimal microtonal shift in a wailing sustained tone, for the development of rhythmic patterns as one sound is played against another, and for the sense of sustained design. It\u2019s fundamentally meditative noise that Lopes practices, exploring perhaps feed-forward as well as feedback in the ecstatic creation of a timeless trance”\u00a0\u00a0Stuart Broomer \/\u00a0<\/em>Point of Departure<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Another treasure trove of music is to be found in Clean Feed recording artist Luis Lopes” \u00a0Mark Corroto \/ <\/em>All About Jazz NY<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLuis Lopes is a guitarist from Portugal, living in Lisbon, playing in his own idiom, with his own technique, approach, all in once [\u2026] His guitar playing is very subtile, ranging on a large scale of dynamics, some upfront playing, some side ways, sometime bellow and the next moment on top\u201d \u00a0Noel Akchot\u00e9<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe unabashedly electric Lopes is a wildly unpredictable player [\u2026] Lopes guitar is worth paying attention to at all times\u201d \u00a0Stuart Kremsky \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span>The IAJRC Journal<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLa guitare de Luis Lopes est sale. Sale et robuste. On peut lui trouver quelques airs sharrockiens voire hendrixiens. C\u2019est une guitare hurlante et qui n\u2019a de politesse que dans l\u2019irrespect. Elle est soupir de sang, torture et r\u00e9cif\u201d \u00a0Luc Bouquet<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“With Live In Madison<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/a> and Noise Solo<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span>, Luis Lopes has demonstrated two aspects of his arsenal that I’ve always enjoyed. The sense of creative musical thought and excellent collaboration. Two exciting new records well worth your investment. Get out there and pick them up.” \u00a0Stephan Moore \/ JazzWrap<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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