Andi ChorleyBarbatrama by The Selva + Machinefabriek, released on Shhpuma in 2021.
The Portuguese word Selva means “Jungle”, and this collaborative opus with Rutger Zuydervelt aka Machinefabriek is one more incursion towards Paradox. The Selva made this paradoxal enterprise its trademark: a trio with two string players (cello, bass) and a drummer with free improvisation and creative jazz as the matrix of their playing, but combining it with other musical languages, going from a deterritorialized kind of imaginary folk or world music to the picking of Renaissance and contemporary chamber music motives and formats. In “Barbatrama”, the band extends this kind of approach to experimental electroacoustics. The post-production electronic processings of Machinefabriek enabled Ricardo Jacinto, Gonçalo Almeida and Nuno Morão to go to unpredictable consequences...
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/barbatrama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJCaNciAEPE&list=RDrJCaNciAEPE&start_radio=1
