PATEK TRIO (+3)

Patek Trio was originally formed by Miguel Martins and even though the word trio appears in the ensemble’s name its actual formation is as unpredictable as the music itself. For this specific gig, new members where added to for a sextet that went to improvise in one of the most unsympathetic environments for this kind of musical performance: the small stage of one of Lisbon’s largest selling machine, FNAC. Nevertheless the public allowed us to pursue our endeavours without any sort of apparent upheaval (…there where rumours of a lynch mob in the making).

Miguel Martins - trumpet, melodica, percussion
Guilherme Rodrigues - pocket trumpet
Eduardo Chagas - trombone
Ernesto Rodrigues - viola
Abdul Moimême - electric guitar, gong
Hernâni Faustino – double bass

Composition by Martins, Rodrigues, Chagas, Rodrigues; Moimême, Faustino
Recorded at FNAC, Chiado, Lisbon, 13/04/2006
(aquatint by Cassandra Constant: ‘Ensayando los Pasos’, 2005)