Dru debut album will be available on the 10th of December in the headlights imprint
"the "dru" are David Maranha (organ), Manuel Mota (electric guitar) and
Riccardo Dillon Wanke (electric piano); once, due to the relevance of
the three protagonists, we would define "L'aiguille du dru" as a work
of a "supergroup", but today, looking at the market's situation and at
the extremely reduced public to whom the CD is addressed (200 copies);
we could welcome it as a nice occasion to listen to three of our
favorite musicians playing together.
Seven tracks with similar structure, identical inspiration. That is
close to a sort of "jazz feeling" that it possible to found in Mota's
releases: a slow fluidic and yearning of guitar's notes and picks in
"slow-motion" around to which some precious organ backgrounds and
piano counterbalanced sounds are filled in and mixed together. These
disguised piano sounds –always discrete but insisting, gloomy,
seething- do never seem as accompaniment, but are an essential base
for a structure otherwise so docile to become pure spirit. Victim of
suggestion, I feel something Christmassy wafting in these spread
sounds (tracks 4 and 6), something that exists (and resists) as in a
edge and a abduction (5); it is a music that has a unique possible
parallelism with that of Loren Mazzacane Connors, same in ecstatic
nature, "human" in a more noble sense: moral,
rational, so dry, so sentimental. I don't know why my thoughts go to
Clint Eastwood and his movies. (8)" (Stefano I. Bianchi, Blow Up Magazine, 01/09)
Creating an after-the-fact transition between early electric jazz and contemporary electronic washes, Dru is made up of David Maranha (organ), Manuel Mota (electric guitar) and Riccardo Dillon Wanke (electric piano). Initial impressions are something like a slowed-down, percussionless (and trumptetless!) version of Bitches Brew. The keyboards create slow-changing washes of texture while Mota's clean-and-warm-sounding guitar interjects chords and thoughtful melodic fragments. Each sound created has the impression of being examined from every angle before the next element is introduced. When the guitar drops out, the extended organ drones and electric piano colourations have something in common with Fennesz's droning but melodic compositions. The Mota's guitar, adding the more tightly-focussed sense of a pick or finger impacting on a string to the more diffuse sounds created by the other two musicians, pulls the ear towards hearing this music as a real-time group improvisation rather than electronic boffinery. Despite one or two moments that stray close to jazz-cliché territory, this subtle, multi-layered music deserves attention. (nick illot, http://www.hairentertainment.com/granddru)
David Maranha (organ), Manuel Mota (electric guitar), Riccardo Dillon Wanke (fender rhodes) are the musicians involved in Dru. The first two, portuguese by birth, the third by adoption. Their music is silent, improvised, with some jazz reminiscences. "L'Aiguille" could be misinterpreted as cold and cerebral, unnarrative, the result of a series of encounters, but approaching its seven tracks in the right mood (I would dare to say "religious") we will discover that these are seven of the infinite possible combinations of a divine whims craps game. Seven configurations of notes, among infinite possibilities, saved from silence catastrophe by these musicians that are not afraid to face it. (Vincenzo Santarcangelo, rockerilla magazine 02/2009)
Sábado dia 10 de Outubro é um dia como nós gostamos. Cheio de movimento.
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"Música dos Osso para paisagens de Moçambique" (Teatro Miguel Franco,
Leiria, 21.30h.).
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