Deambul
Between 2017 and 2023, Miguel Feraso Cabral played live solo with electric guitar and electronics, promoting the encounter of melodic fragments and rhythmic cadences with free sound exploration, in improvisations on pre-recorded material transformed in real time and on loops created in the moment. Most of these performances were recorded, providing the raw material for the composition of all of Deambul's tracks.
On top of these recordings, sequencing manoeuvres were made in the studio and layers of percussion, drums, lo-fi electronics, forgotten home recordings - and more guitars - were added. The language oscillates between some retro elements, others that are almost folk and others that are more experimental. The music is energetic, cinematic and sometimes melancholic.
Miguel Feraso Cabral: electric guitars, electronics, drums, bass, darbuka, tambourine, objects
All music composed, performed and produced by Miguel Feraso Cabral
Mastered by Atman Sheth
Released October 6, 2023
Rudimentol Records
On top of these recordings, sequencing manoeuvres were made in the studio and layers of percussion, drums, lo-fi electronics, forgotten home recordings - and more guitars - were added. The language oscillates between some retro elements, others that are almost folk and others that are more experimental. The music is energetic, cinematic and sometimes melancholic.
Miguel Feraso Cabral: electric guitars, electronics, drums, bass, darbuka, tambourine, objects
All music composed, performed and produced by Miguel Feraso Cabral
Mastered by Atman Sheth
Released October 6, 2023
Rudimentol Records
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Album tracks
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13:41Indo Por Ali Longe (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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22:42Queda Livre (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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34:00Todo Andarengo (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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43:12Descaminho (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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52:23Girando Torto (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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63:14Alegado Suspeito (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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73:26Arcada (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
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82:42Rasto (clip)Miguel Feraso Cabral
Biography
In his tracks, Miguel Feraso Cabral creates universes that explore the possibilities of the coexistence of different musical genres, of conventional instruments with others he has created himself, of home recordings with electronics.
In the 1990s, he began to play drums in some bands close to punk rock. Later he played drums and percussion in a brass band, a jazz big band and a Dixieland quartet. From then on, he began to explore different sonic approaches and unique composition and recording techniques, both playing and recording on conventional or home-made instruments. As Rui Eduardo Paes, former editor of jazz.pt, wrote: "Cabral is a musician with many ideas and resources. For a short time he was the drummer of Coty Cream. He occasionally creates soundtracks and sound design for documentaries, games and commercials.
His live performances are mainly improvised and he has played, as a group or solo, at various events and festivals in Portugal and abroad, such as Alkantara, Jazz em Agosto, EME, Creative Sources Fest, Sofar Sounds, L.E.M., among others. Cabral's live performances can include drums, electric guitar and electronics, as well as the instruments he invented and built.
Since 2000, he has released several albums. 'The Nevermet Ensemble: Quarto Escuro', released in 2005 on his Rudimentol label, received special attention from the Portuguese and international press. "A sonic movie", wrote Mike Barnes in The Wire.
"The inventor of new instruments that Cabral also is (as in the case of the latacantante, an electroacoustic banjo made from a biscuit box) returns to one of his first instruments, the guitar (the other is the drums) for a work that expands its interconnections with the effects pedalboard and the amplifier. The amplifier (or amplifiers, of which there may be several) that the musician modifies to obtain the desired results, in a timbral and signal processing research that is truly surprising."
Rui Eduardo Paes [ music critic, essayist, former editor of Jazz.pt magazine ]
"There's a Portuguese soul that Dead Combo recreate in the best way. Miguel Feraso Cabral is also on the right track."
Carlos Reis [ Vice ]
In his tracks, Miguel Feraso Cabral creates universes that explore the possibilities of the coexistence of different musical genres, of conventional instruments with others he has created himself, of home recordings with electronics.
In the 1990s, he began to play drums in some bands close to punk rock. Later he played drums and percussion in a brass band, a jazz big band and a Dixieland quartet. From then on, he began to explore different sonic approaches and unique composition and recording techniques, both playing and recording on conventional or home-made instruments. As Rui Eduardo Paes, former editor of jazz.pt, wrote: "Cabral is a musician with many ideas and resources. For a short time he was the drummer of Coty Cream. He occasionally creates soundtracks and sound design for documentaries, games and commercials.
His live performances are mainly improvised and he has played, as a group or solo, at various events and festivals in Portugal and abroad, such as Alkantara, Jazz em Agosto, EME, Creative Sources Fest, Sofar Sounds, L.E.M., among others. Cabral's live performances can include drums, electric guitar and electronics, as well as the instruments he invented and built.
Since 2000, he has released several albums. 'The Nevermet Ensemble: Quarto Escuro', released in 2005 on his Rudimentol label, received special attention from the Portuguese and international press. "A sonic movie", wrote Mike Barnes in The Wire.
"The inventor of new instruments that Cabral also is (as in the case of the latacantante, an electroacoustic banjo made from a biscuit box) returns to one of his first instruments, the guitar (the other is the drums) for a work that expands its interconnections with the effects pedalboard and the amplifier. The amplifier (or amplifiers, of which there may be several) that the musician modifies to obtain the desired results, in a timbral and signal processing research that is truly surprising."
Rui Eduardo Paes [ music critic, essayist, former editor of Jazz.pt magazine ]
"There's a Portuguese soul that Dead Combo recreate in the best way. Miguel Feraso Cabral is also on the right track."
Carlos Reis [ Vice ]