Nicolas Souchal / João Madeira / Bruno Parrinha – Parcours d’Impulsions (4DaRECORD, 2026)
Parcours d’Impulsions captures a first, free-improvised session of French trumpeter Nicolas Souchal, who accumulated extensive experience in playing modern and free jazz, free improvised music, Balkan music, and Moroccan Sufi music, with Portuguese long-timecomrades of double bass player João Madeira (who recorded, mixed, and mastered the album) and released it on his 4DaRECORD label), and alto sax player Bruno Parrinha. Madeira and Parrinha collaborated in violist Ernesto Rodrigues’ assorted projects, and more recently with local violin master Carlos Zingaro and in a duo format (Enleio and 2 x 2 (Dois Ao Quadrado), 4DaRECORD, 2025 and 2026). The album was recorded on a warm afternoon at Memória in Lisbon in May 2025.
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