ZWOSCH, ZWOSCH & ZWOSCH by Carlos ‘Zingaro’, Guilherme Rodrigues and José Oliveira was released last year on our label. Here’s a fine review by Ken Waxman on the Canadian JAZZ WORD.
Enjoy. The album is still available from our store here.

Dean and virtually the founder of contemporary improvised music in Portugal, violinist Carlos Zingaro, 75, has been forging an individual path since the late 1970s with international artists such as Joëlle Léandre and subsequent generations of local improvisers. Dedicated to Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, Zwosch, Zwosch & Zwosch links the violinist with younger improvisers cellist Guilherme Rodrigues and percussionist José Oliveira. 
With a smaller canvas and in trio form on Zwosch, Zwosch & Zwosch, Zingaro, Rodrigues and Olivera translate the onomatopoeia of the title into interactive ingenuity, as the percussionist’s distant rumbles shore up the strings’ affiliated thin squeaks and strained whines.
Before that and throughout the improvisation, the narrative frequently stops and starts with quiet interludes separating the more furious sequences. Those  emphasize stressed string squeezes and twangs as well as the percussionist’s metallic crashes, bell-tree-shakes, cymbal ratcheting, wooden smacks and resonating hisses. With delicacy and languor at a minimum, loudness and speed are still balanced by layered tone blending from stacked violin and cello arco buzzes stacked, preserving linear motion. Overall, since melodic interludes such as concave string trills and unexpected percussion gentling as well as more rugged expositions, the selection’s exploratory nature is also emphasized. Timbral contradictions are frequently resolved so the tracks are the aural equivalent of a profound multicolored canvas.  More affirmation, if any more are needed, of Zingaro’s continued creative imagination and the burgeoning skills of Iberian and Mediterranean improvisers is heard on this session.