Projects
Carlos Bica & AZUL |
Carlos Bica & Ana Brandão - "DIZ" | "Single"
Double Bass Solo
Trio Bica/Klammer/Kalima | Tuomi
| SÉlavy w/Ulrike Haage | Trio
Essencia
Line-up: Carlos Bica (bass) Frank Möbus (electric guitar) Jim Black (dr, perc)
"Azul"
earned delighted reviews everywhere and was voted Jazz Album of the Year
in Portugal. The band played big European festivals (e.g. Lissabon, Berlin,
Nuremberg) and did several radio productions. Bridging Portuguese roots
with creative freedom à la Knitting Factory, Azul gives a new and airy
definition of guitar trio aesthetics. [more]
Carlos Bica & Ana Brandão - "Diz"
Line-up: Ana Brandão (vocal) Carlos Bica (double bass) João Paulo (piano) Katharina Gramss (violin) Mike Rutledge (viola)
A
project both complex and humorous, "Diz" was hailed by the Portuguese
press as a "wonderful surprise" on stage: "The work resounds with strains
of jazz, contemporary improvised music, chansons and other cultural elements
from folk and contemporary classical music." [more]
Line-Up: Carlos Bica (bass)
…his
play gives us the impression as if musician and instrument were just one.
(Nürnberger Nachrichten)
"Single" is also the title of the double bass solo CD that was recorded at the RadioBerlinBrandenburg Studios and that will be released in 2005 by BorLand Records.
Line-up: Carlos Bica (bass), Kalle Kalima (g), Sven Klammer (tr)
Like
Paris in the fifties, Berlin is nowadays well known as a refuge for the
creative elite of jazz. Part of the local jazz scene in town are Carlos
Bica, Kalle Kalima and Sven Klammer. Names, that have already gained a
lot of recognition far beyond the city's borders. Southern romanticism,
dramatic Gravity and humorous playfulness - all that you can find in the
versatility of this Trio. [more]
Line-up: Kristiina Tuomi (voc), Carlos Bica (bass), Carsten Daerr (p)
The
three musicians met in Berlin and immediately discovered their own sound.
The trios program contains only original material in exception of some
Shakespeare sonnets and poems by E.A.Poe. Their unique approach leaps
across the stylistic borders of chamber music, folk, pop, jazz the art
of song, with the entertaining ease and serious intensity of musical virtuosity.
[more]
SÉlavy - w/Ulrike Haage
Line-Up: Ulrike Haage (piano), Carlos Bica (bass) a.o.
Gemeinsam
mit Carlos Bica stellt Ulrike Haage, Jazzpreisträgerin 2003, ihr neues
Solo Album SÉlavy vor, das ein inspiriertes engagiertes Zusammenspiel
und zutiefst ergreifende Musik präsentiert.
"...Unvergessliche Jazzklänge mit Haage, Mangelsdorff und Bica. Preisträgerin
mit fantastischer Klangwelt beim Ostseejazz..."
[more] (Info
in German)
Line-up: Gebhard Ullmann (bcl, ts, ss), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Carlos Bica (bass)
This
trio features three highly individual European composers and improvisers
who combine their musical language and 'noises' into a very personal and
intense chamber music. The first cd 'essencia' has been released on 'Between
The Lines' in july 2001.
more info: www.gebhard-ullmann.de