Gabriel Ferrandini-drums Gerard Lebik- Pd
live set at Drabina13 24.07.11

foto: Bartek Szewczykowski

Gebriel Ferrandini - He really is the image of the universal music he plays. Born in Monterey, California, Gabriel Ferrandini (23 years old) is the son of a Portuguese father born in Mozambique but relocated to Brasil with only 2 years of age, and of a Brasilian mother with Italian ascendecy migrated to the United States in her teenage years. This "citizen of the world" lives in Portugal since he was 9 years old, and it was in this European country where, ironically, he discovered jazz and the practice of improvisation. This fact is explained by the richness of the jazz and improvised Portuguese music scene, with already big repercussions in the world - as we verify knowing that a Portuguese discographic company, Clean Feed, was chosen by the online journal All About Jazz as Label of the Year in 2008. This is the context where the young musician is firming is name as one of the most important drummers around. With Rodrigo Amado's Motion Trio, Red Trio, Nobuyasu Furuya Trio, and the electro-acoustic / noise band Flu, or playing in ad-hoc formations with Rob Mazurek, Alberto Pinton, Alfred "23" Harth, Raymond Strid, and David Stackenas, among others, is presence is strongly felt. Ferrandini has a very personal view of the work with a pair of sticks, somewhere between Paul Lytton and Paal Nilssen-Love, and that makes all the difference. As the magazine jazz.pt wrote, "the future waits for him".

www.discogs.com/artist/1603306-Gabriel-Ferrandini

Gerard Lebik (1980) creates sound and music, either by improvisation, musical notation or through direct manipulation of sonic material using acoustic, electronic and electroacoustic media. Expands music area through various tools and techniques: tenor saxophone, contralto clarinet, zopan wave generators, air compressors, analog video feedback, sound objects and software. In 2007 graduated Wroclaw Academy of Music. Began from classical music by jazz, free improvisation to experimental, sound art and noise.
Performed with: Eryck Abecassis, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Rob Mazurek, Keith Rowe, Brian Labycz, Hernani Faustino, Gabriel Ferrnandini, Noritaka Tanaka, Bettina Wenzel, hans w koch, Joker Nies, Clayton Thomas, Christian Marien, Anton Hatwich, Marc Riordan, Sebastian Meissner, Pawel Janicki, Artur Majewski, Kuba Suchar, Piotr Damasiewicz, Yamaguchi Jin Lang , Ura Hiroyuki.

Significant events: V:NM-Festival in Graz, Bienale Zagreb, Tokyo Jazz, TodaysArt Festival Hague, Festival Umbrella Chicago, Musica Electronica Nova, Survival Art Review Wroclaw, Art Of Improvisation, Sibiu Jazz and More, SuperDeluxe-Tokyo, Alte Feuerwache-Cologne, CSW-Warszawa, Galeria Leto, Galeria Kordegarda, De Werf-Brugge, Pit Inn Shinjuku-Tokyo, Ftarri-Tokyo.

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