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	1.	Smiling as a Rite of Exorcism 09:52
	2.	Evil to him who Evil thinks 05:38
	3.	Language drifts into Meaning 08:07
	4.	Astrolabe 07:01
	5.	Obscure Objects 09:21
	6.	Beauty Melted in Secret 08:28
	7.	The Decay of Manners 10:42
	8.	Blind Art Collector 04:25
	9.	Ode for the duration of Humanity 05:51

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You already know three members of this Portuguese band – alto saxophonist Bruno Figueira, guitarist João Clemente and drummer Duarte Fonseca – from Slow is Possible. The other is bassist João Lucas, also born in Portugal but living and working in Holland. His deep and acid bass sound is the axis of everything happening in “Cat in a Bag”. Sometimes it reminds you of the sublow harmonics of Bill Laswell, but in a context not very far from John Zorn’s compositions for rock-oriented power trios. Here and there the mindset of the music take it to the experimental and contemporary classical music fields, in a kind of Kasper Toeplitz garage version. When all the conditions seem reunited for the existence of another jazzcore unit, the quartet put aside punk and metal references and dive in the tradition of progressive and art rock: then the bass guitar seems to assume the heritage of Hugh Hopper, but exchanging the jazz factor in Soft Machine by a blues one and its psychedelia by hard rock configurations. All the rest is spontaneous creativity, the kind you find in free improvised music, yes, but electrical, noisy and full of joy and rage.

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released July 26, 2019

Bruno Figueira - saxofone and effects
Duarte Fonseca - drums
João Clemente - guitar and magnets
João Lucas - bass and effects

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Recorded in KellerTone Studio by Peter Kolpakov, 12&13 June 2019 - Berlim | Mixed, Edited and Mastered by João Clemente
Produced by Cat in a Bag | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos

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