No Room For Squares Session 42 – Quartabé – Repescagem (LP 2024 – Fun in the Curch)

For the last session of the year we’re happy to have Mariá Portugal as a special guest!
One of the most brilliant and active musicians in the European free/impro scene will present the latest record of her band and engage with us in a Q&A session.

Quartabê delves deep into the Brazilian musical heritage, unearthing undervalued gems and reworking them with their playful approach. The group’s interpretations combine samba, jazz, electronic textures, and experimental sounds, creating a complex tapestry that is continually surprising.

Quartabê’s identity was built upon the metaphor of the classroom: the group sees itself as a school class, which chooses its own teachers from among great masters of Brazilian music. Assuming that the learning and creative processes have in common experimentation and play, the quartet is characterized by its bold versions coupled with irreverent performance.

In addition to its sound, marked by the group’s various music references – from the São Paulo avant-garde movement to the free improvisation, passing through pop and electronic music – Quartabê also stands out for the formation composed mostly of women who, besides instrumentalists are also arrangers, composers, singers and improvisers – which is unusual in Brazil and it has high political relevance in a music scene where positions of creation and power are still held disproportionately by men.

✨The bar opens at 6:30 PM. Needle drop at 8:30 PM.
✨ Tickets (5 Euro) for the session available at the door. No reservations, sorry.
✨ We ask for silent listening during the length of the main record.
✨ Come early and/or stay late for a chat and a drink!
✨ No room for squares is dedicated to the discovery, promotion and shared listening of genre-challenging music: artists and records that don’t fit into specific categories but bend and break the boundaries between and across them. We love the visionaries, the outsiders, those who dare to look into the abyss and are not scared to explore new ways.